charity.wtf
cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
👤 Joined on 21 October 2024
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@mipsytipsy.bsky.social@mipsytipsy.bsky.social → @charity.wtfSimilarly for code: big enterprisy companies have always favored average code that everybody can read and change (think go-lang, auto-formatters, etc.) While I acknowledge this is not economical and will go the way of assembly, I still do value code hand-written by an individual that I trust.
Show PostI think you're on to something. But let's back up even further: why does it even matter who wrote a text? Because it tells us the context it was written in, and therefore what biases it might have, what "worldview" it's part of. The larger the committee writing a text, the more average it becomes.
Show PostOne of our great shortcomings has been a lack of attribution. The early days of "give it a PAT" meant we've made it acceptable for things to be posted as people when it was robots. The faster our collaboration platforms can distinguish agentic personas from humans the better.
Show PostI come to work to learn from others, collaborate and build systems that help make people's lives better. AI can help us do this better but fuck me, when we're replacing the human connection with it what are we doing. Spending time with others and creating connection with others is what matters.
Show PostInspired to finally read @charity.wtf's post this morning after a colleague told me they had started receiving DMs written entirely by AI in the past few weeks. charity.wtf/p/confession...
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