Thompson Marzagão

In 5 years, we’ll tell our friends that we were there when MCP started everything. We’ll recognize it as an inflection point. I’ve been wrong before many times, but I think this is big. Video tutorial coming in the next couple of days. I built a thing with it. This was impossible before MCP. Follow if you don’t want to miss it.

Oh damn, i really need to be finishing my slides but @samnewman is spitting FIRE on stage about organizations that silo engineers by specialty, treating them like fungible units, and oh shit nothing works anymore. @ShipItCon

@norootcause Nailed. Back in 2019 I published a piece about how we did platform engineering at an org with ~1500 engs. AFAIK migrations were still going last year. varoa.net/paas/infrastru…

@muriccxx @AlexandreSWE Existe desde que gente é gente, às vezes em decorrência de problemas mentais, traumas ou abusos, documentado desde o século 19 e com exemplos até na Grécia antiga: npr.org/2005/06/10/469…

@AlexandreSWE baixíssima inteligência emocional/dificuldade de lidar com dor/emoções (o que deveria ser aprendido/reforçado na infância) e forte influência de redes sociais

@AlexandreSWE Artigo de 2005 mostrando que isso é algo documentado desde o século 19: npr.org/2005/06/10/469…

@AlexandreSWE E não é um problema americano. Notícia do Brasil, de 2016: g1.globo.com/fantastico/not…

Every Monday, you rehire your team. To choose you: - They know what winning looks like - They're energized to take the hill - They have your full support To choose them: - They have the necessary skills to win - They engage with shared values - They reject toxic behavior

At first when I saw xml for Claude I was like "WTF Why XML". Now I LOVE xml so much, can't prompt without it. Never going back

Using AI assistants in my IDE has completely transformed my developer workflow.

Pro tip: any time you see someone confidently opining on what all good CTOs know or do, it is ✨bullshit✨ There is no stock template for CTO, or default set of expectations or responsibilities. It stands alone among the C-levels in that good ones are all over the freaking map.

NEW POST David Tan and Jessie Wang reflect on how regular engineering practices such as testing and refactoring helped them deliver a prototype LLM application rapidly and reliably. martinfowler.com/articles/engin…

This is a terrific thread. Key truth: everything owned by no one will eventually be owned by infrastructure. 😭 (See also: there is no such thing as "shared ownership.")

"Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup" -- cep.dev/posts/every-in… Best infrastructure post I've read in YEARS; would love to see this become a hot series. Write one about your choices, please!!!

My talk from QCon NYC 2023 has just been posted: "Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering." Pitfall #1: Running too much software #2: Writing too much software #3: Not letting teams own their own reliability ... and so on! (there are 8) infoq.com/presentations/…

🧵 The historic NYT v. @OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast. Tl;dr - It's the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. 👇

Why should you, or anyone else, become an engineering manager? Teams with a good engineering manager are more resilient, and they consistently outperform teams without one, but the job can be hard and thankless. Why do it? New post: charity.wtf/2023/12/15/why…

Alright, the day is here: we are rolling out the Outropy.ai public beta! 🧵

Outropy is the first system I am building with pURNs from the get-go instead of refactoring towards it later, and it saves my butt a dozen times every week: philcalcado.com/2017/03/22/pat…