alchemism

Pretend you are a (SR)Engineering Manager with an offshore Cloud Ops team, or with a devops consulting shop on contract: How would you progress your career? How would you get the job done?

I’m a troubleshooter and I’ve managed human troubleshooters. The LLMs are better - if they are grounded in either IAC or api access to the infra.

In Film 101, Birth of a Nation gets deep analysis even though it’s basically kkk propaganda

Onshoring as the lesser form of offshoring

My ability to force Anthropic or OpenAi to stop publishing their harnesses because there are too many is far less than my ability to suggest one which is not vendor-locked.

Yes, he is very much not welcome to eat street bones. He knows they are a forbidden pleasure and activates his highest-functioning brain cells in order to snatch one.

The only thing working in his favor is that beagles tend to have an iron gut. A bag of chocolate bars might drop another dog…but probably not a beagle.

My beagle does this with every sidewalk spot where he’s ever found a half-eaten chicken wing in his life - just in case.

You might look at Block's open-sourced Goose (https://goose-docs.ai) and view it as something of a neutral opinion for a harness application.

Well, a colo will typically offer a Remote Hands service for $/mo and do that part for you, but its a human.

I suppose eventually it could be a rack robot instead, why not.

In the sense that ai-engineering specs (ie an elaborate prompt with skills etc.) can be said to be compiled into code language x maybe.....the spec is the new code?

The agent could also do that part while its still in draft. If the rigorous tests already exist of course.

Perhaps spec review in the custom of code review - it can even be via PR - so there is a bottleneck before anything is generated, instead of after. Cheap-to-produce code maybe isn't worth understanding line-by-line anymore.

The interesting thing about this, if you think about it, is that this is an AWS OSS release.

Strands is AWS.

At the time, we ended up with a conference room with the same name, after an office vote.

Offshoring to Asia began long before it moved into China. What you are describing is the acceleration point of the trend.

En taro Adun, Executor.

Don’t worry, there is nothing inherently “noble” at all about a matriarchy which enforces compliance through liberal permission for rape. Maybe more a matter of scale, a tribal raid versus the siege, sack, and rape of an entire city. The individualist warfare of The Illiad; then later the Roman Legions, then later Mongol Horde.

The hints of egalitarian structures are found deep in enthographic interviews of tribes which have no visible hierarchy: it is invisible, if so how does it operate?

On a tangential note, try run Vibe Island (or equivalent) with Protoss WAVs for the agent sound effects.

If a security report is written for any particular human at all, I’d consider it to be a failure as an enterprise policy document. It should be written for The System, not for the boss; and LLMs are perfect for producing ritual boilerplate.

I'd like to see the studies which confirm that kingship (i.e. rule by the most mighty hunter or warrior) and violence is universal and did not explode about 5000 years ago, because that all seems to me like a mere extrapolation of the 19th century imagination of the default human condition as being "nasty, brutish, short." =)

Some interesting texts: * The Harmless People (a classic) * Hierarchy in the Forest * Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin * The Foraging Spectrum

Yes, it would typically be done under contract and then implemented as compliance policy across the enterprise cloud - it would not be up to a tenant to arrange a ZDR policy.

Also, the models are shipped to big platforms to run as an executable on their hardware. Except in certain cases like Anthropic Fable.

In true enterprise you’d want a compliance office product before an engineering office product…

Yes I do. In anthropology the surviving “undiscovered” indigenous tribes of the 20th century showed a diverse range of social configurations - matriarchies, patriarchies, everything!

Systemic violence came with the agricultural revolution, food and population stores, the ages of Bronze and Iron. Life was too precious in small bands for intense violence, even against rivals.

[Edit: 100 men armed with wooden clubs is an extremely bloody rugby match. Things generally did not start getting very-very bad until metal weapons were combined with boats or horses.]

Hobbes was a bit wrong it turns out.

Isolated Hunter-Gatherers tended to (and still) coalesce around the person whose opinions were correct more often then not. Violence was not a default until populations grew. The measures may be arbitrary, but can always be defined as “born with the right attributes in the right place at the right time.”

You might like Athens, in that case.

I think there is a subtle difference between you-or-I dumping a chat paste into the PR, versus an automated agent directly commenting in a PR. The former carries a human social implication, the latter does not. The weight of them is different.

They probably like to imagine that they are Mentats from Dune, but the reality is closer to truckers cooking in a motel bathtub.

That’s not how enterprise data controls operate in e.g. AWS Bedrock or Databricks - where they use models - sorry to inform you.

Right, in 5 years time the economy will be entirely vibecoded by pension fund and family office bankers. No one will be employed at all

The thing about gold rushes, and market manias, is that the outcomes are irrational.