Bring Back Ops Pride (xpost) – charity.wtf

kept by eddie jan 19

Operations should be reclaimed as a term of pride, not a synonym for toil, because it is a vital and difficult engineering function distinct from product development.

Logging sucks | Hacker News
Structured, high-cardinality logs with consistent schemas and correlation IDs improve debugging over traditional unstructured logs in distributed systems.
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Report: Why Developers Use LLMs to Write Blog Posts
A survey of 181 developers finds that 40% of those who always use LLMs to write blog posts never wrote before, while 72% of LLM draft users perform substantial editing and only 13% feel the output captures their voice.
also on Charity Majors, #tech-community
Software as Wiki, Mutable Software - exe.dev blog
A link shortener called Slinky uses an 'Edit with Shelley' button to let an AI agent modify and extend the software's code in real time, treating the app like a mutable wiki.
also on Honeycomb, #software-engineering
AddyOsmani.com - Bias Toward Action
Bias toward action means taking the smallest responsible step with guardrails, using reversible decisions, error budgets, and safety nets to learn faster without catastrophic failure.
also on DORA, Google, #culture, #software-engineering
The cost of caring about software - Alex Rios Substack
AI reduces code-writing effort but shifts verification cost onto reviewers, creating an externality where comprehension debt rises despite faster generation.
also on DORA, #software-engineering