Ludwig: “Working together to defeat each other.”

For all the talk of podcasts being highly influential in the US election, just 2% report it as the main way they formed their vote in Ireland. #ge24 Next Round Dale McDermott

I love watching the Irish #Election2024 vote count, it’s so open and transparent and so well tallied and scrutinized. One of the world’s greatest examples of democracy in action.

It’s done! 150,000 words, 200+ illustrations, 250 footnotes, and over 1200 reference links. My editor just told me the manuscript has been sent to the printers. - The ebook will be coming out later this week. - Paperback copies should be available in a few weeks (hopefully

The Atlantic’s magnificent newest cover story is out this morning. Beautifully written, moving, and hilarious, by Caitlin Flanagan: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Our CEO on why LLMs won't save us in the domain of production engineering - and particularly incident management. stanza.systems/post/llms-wont…

So what exactly *is* an AI SRE? We wrote a deep dive on how AI agents can help with production operations - investigating issues, diagnosing problems, and driving them to resolution. cleric.io/blog/what-is-a… cc Jeremy Lewi Niall Murphy Daniel Jeffries Rachel Chalmers Harrison Chase

Dublin pharmacists are class - found these inside my normal prescription bag this morning 🎅🏻

a bug stamping on a human face, forever

“It has come to my attention that the engineer working on the Dock is in FUCKING IRELAND”. tla.systems/blog/2025/01/0… (h/t DF)

Variety Warners Brothers created a free streaming Walmart bin on YouTube

thebulletin.org/2025/02/why-do… Liz Fong-Jones puts the case in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that the recent intervention in the US treasury violates every best practice of risk management in crucial systems. (I helped to review this and stand by it.)

Linus the gap between writing code and nurturing systems is like learning to be a parent after playing with dolls

Amazon is ending the ability to download books off of their servers to your eInk devices that you could later transfer via USB/wireless because of DRM politics and as a result, this makes personal archives harder. But fortunately there is a great bulk downloader tool on GitHub!

I don't know that there's anyone really in a position to take advantage of this...

For folks in #Dublin interested in working on some of the most critical problems in #AI reliability, please consider applying to this job with #Anthropic: job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…

We gave four AI agents a computer, a group chat, and an ambitious goal: raise as much money for charity as you can We're running them for hours a day, every day Will they succeed? Will they flounder? Will viewers help them or hinder them? Welcome to the Agent Village!

Pleased to announce that the SRE book second edition is officially underway! Let me know if you have any suggestions for what it should contain. (I'm helping out a little from the outside.)

poets, $150/hr

Attempting to get the conversation going on where our models need updating for MLOps!