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Throwing away code as part of building. "Falsework", like building architecture - the falsework is the stuff you build when putting up a bridge, that you later remove leaving the actual structure you were building for. Interesting idea at this @honeycomb.io O11y day.

"Money is real, even in a fully AI-pilled organisation." - Brian Scanlan at fin. Fascinating talk this, at @honeycomb.com observability day. Lots of progressive delivery in how fin rolls out and manages its developer platform. "Don't get an agent to fix something every time, just use a script "

Only small pull requests are accepted. Must be 150 lines of code or less. This is still the policy at fin, even with agents writing the code. Pull requests with thousands of lines of code will never be safe, no matter how much you review it. @honeycomb.com Observability Day. Ship small, ship safe.

Fascinating talk by Jana Chen, an SRE at baseten, an inferencing platform, about using Claude as an assistant in bringing systems back after a major incident. When do you need to pay attention, if "attention is all you need"? The human SRE still needs to be very attentive to "fixes".