Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.
Had the fun of being a guest on the This is Fine! podcast last week.
Hot take - I don't think you ever *really* put an incident "on hold", not fully. Does that still have value?
Give it a listen!
youtu.be/qh0Wy3uB0yw
Does anyone have first-hand experience with using an AI agent that has “participated” in the response to an actual incident in a genuinely diagnostic — or otherwise contextually-specific way?
My dreams are to move through space and time until the end.
Please Help to Save Beau’s Vision
This is a friend of my daughter's. She is studying law and will lose her vision if she cannot access treatment only available in the US.
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Random question: Do people really have dreams they want to achieve after age 45? Career or Personal?
Incident data I'd like to see: how effective were the completed action items that were implemented in the wake of previous incidents? How often did they actually help prevent incidents? How often did they end up making things harder?
As Richard Cook notes, in reflecting on the data collected from the SNAFU Catchers Consortium: "It's hard to know who is monitoring the system, who is looking at things, and who is available. We know for certain in (some organizations) that there is a pretty well defined group of people who are in high-frequency update mode more or less continuously while awake. This is a huge contributor to reducing the costs of coordination and it is invisible to everyone and therefore not on any dashboard." (Cook, personal communication)
1. PEOPLE keep things working.
2. When things break down, PEOPLE work to make the consequences much less than they might have been otherwise.
Both dynamics are, for the most part, invisible to management.
(via @lauramaguire.bsky.social's dissertation)
Anybody know what creates the internals of a person to just say..
Let’s scorch this motherfer!
Fight or Flight?
“If we wait until we feel ready to take on a new challenge, we might never pursue it at all. There may not come a day when we wake up and suddenly feel prepared. We become prepared by taking the leap anyway.” - Hidden Potential
How’s it going?
I wear shorts when it’s below 32F. Heck I wore shorts to Walmart and it was 19F. I just wear a coat and go in shorts. Kinda weird but my legs don’t get cold.
Who and what determines a best practice? A humans subjective perspective.
x
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
Christmas shirt thoughts…🤩
In 2015, I attended my first Resilience Engineering Symposium. I felt excited and nervous sharing our domain of software with such accomplished audience.
A decade later, I’m part of a fast-growing community of others in software passionate about RE, committed to creating a better future.
Introducing the Resilience in Software Foundation: a multi-disciplinary group interested in networking with and learning from each other's unique experiences, and helping to disseminate their knowledge to the broader software industry as a whole. resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1092580
In the end of all of it. I ended up with nothing. Par for the course.
I’d like to be <fill in the blank>
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I’m pretty spicy about work. Ready to scorch the leadership.
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I’m falling on language use here a bit from the incident writeup when the statement is made “Monitoring a deployment and reverting an offending change is generally straightforward…”
Is it though? What makes it so straightforward?
Great writeup Lorin!
SIMPLY HAVING A
Human error is a starting point for exploring an event, not a final cause.
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Repeating from past years:
This week is significant.
To those of you who are on-call during this week and next,
who are schlepping your laptop to Thanksgiving, who will have 2nd thoughts about that glass of wine or cocktail this Thursday or next Sunday night…
…who know the exact location and schedule of their teammates this week,
who gave out land-line numbers to their teammates *just in case*, who knows that if everything goes smoothly, only a few others will have any idea what went into that being even a remote possibility…
who worries that if it *doesn't* go smoothly, that "heads" might "roll," whose spouse or partner shares in the slightly-higher-level-of-anxiety this time of year brings...
Know that we at @adaptivecapacity.bsky.social see you, understand you, and are thinking about you. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
Meaningful learning from incidents requires expertise that most organizations do not have — but these skills can be learned!
We're getting a head start on 2025 with a workshop series on Incident Analysis.
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