We had an incident at 19:20, fixed it at 19:35, wrote it up, and went home. The same incident started again at 02:07 the next morning with nobody awake to recognise it, and the on-call engineer spent forty minutes rediscovering a root cause we had already documented seven hours earlier. During ...
You do not have to be unhappy to go and find out what you are worth. Once a year, take an interview. Not because you are leaving.
Designing an LLM Leaderboard That Can Survive Change An LLM comparison page is easy to sketch and hard to keep honest. The first version usually has a table, a score column, and a sort button. The second version has multiple model families, benchmark updates, pricing changes, provider outages, ...
We passed the tabletop exercise on backups for years. Offsite copies, tested restores, documented retention. The thing we never examined was how the backup system authenticated, and the answer was that its service account was a member of a group with administrative rights on effectively every s...
There is an old pattern that keeps coming back. Make a thing cheaper and people do not use the same amount for less money. They use far more of it.
The hard part is rarely the work. The hard part is the first ten minutes, where the thing in your head is still perfect and anything you put down makes it worse. So you tidy.