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New adventure : Postgres storage advisor
github.com/mathewjustin/post…
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No human will ever write code better than LLMs. Accept this fact, stop pretending, and move on.
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Are we ever going to get back to talking about languages, frameworks, libraries, and packages?
AI sucked all the oxygen out of the room
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I also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his own public benefit corporation with @Sanjay_Ghemawat focused on accelerating discoveries across ML, science, & engineering. @Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with Jeff and Sanjay, and I wish them all the best. Thank you for everything!
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A 22-year-old intern fixed a bug that 3 senior engineers couldn't solve for 6 months.
Saved the company $2M. They gave him a $500 gift card and didn't convert him to full-time.
He posted the solution on GitHub. A startup saw it. Hired him at $140k.
The 3 senior engineers who couldn't fix it? They're still there. Still getting paid. Still breaking things.
Talent gets punished in corporate. Mediocrity gets protected. That's not a bug in the system that's the feature.
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You're paying 40k a month for an observability platform and still SSH into the box to read logs during an incident.
Unpopular opinion on agentic workflows:
90% of the time, you don't need an autonomous agent. You need a standard, deterministic script that runs your tools sequentially, collects the output, and hands it to an LLM for final synthesis.
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The concept of spending 8 hours everyday transferring wealth from your boss to your landlord
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The real reason many fear AI is because it removes the illusion of competence.
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Dumb people are impressed by complexity.
Smart people are impressed by simplicity.
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Replying to @wongmjane @BenLesh
Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra.
In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.


















