Camille Fournier+

Exhausting things about AI-generated artifacts like presentations: when one assu

Exhausting things about AI-generated artifacts like presentations: when one assumption is wrong, it gets embedded into far more places in the generated work than my experience with human generated content, making it extra tedious to correct and edit out

Sorry but I can't help but think that the phrasing and photo in this image are i

Sorry but I can't help but think that the phrasing and photo in this image are intended to imply that you want to do porn with the pilots

Also man there are plenty of accessible theaters they can get to. I like the kip

Also man there are plenty of accessible theaters they can get to. I like the kips Bay theater but it's not worth saving vs more useful things for that space

Scented?

Scented?

But my digital twin!

But my digital twin!

Me taking vacation

Me taking vacation

Can you imagine being stuck at a dinner party next to this inbred creep? Are the

Can you imagine being stuck at a dinner party next to this inbred creep? Are they putting drugs in the tap water in San Francisco now, how was anyone able to stand it?

Seriously why do we have to sit around and pretend to take this prince gerhardt

Seriously why do we have to sit around and pretend to take this prince gerhardt child clown seriously what are we even doing

Wow ticketmaster presale ticket buying is a terrible experience huh

Wow ticketmaster presale ticket buying is a terrible experience huh

Both cute and somehow they manage to play that song with a British accent

Both cute and somehow they manage to play that song with a British accent

Read "Wild Dark Shore" in a greedy day, what a beautiful and compelling book: am

Read "Wild Dark Shore" in a greedy day, what a beautiful and compelling book: amzn.to/45Iiext

1. hoisted by my own petard 2. sweet sweet candy 3. everything's coming up milho

1. hoisted by my own petard 2. sweet sweet candy 3. everything's coming up milhouse 4. many different nelson haw-haws and stop hitting yourself 5. perfectly cromulent

This sent me down a Wikipedia hole that left me unsatisfied with my understandin

This sent me down a Wikipedia hole that left me unsatisfied with my understanding of the nature of erucic acid and why and whether it is in fact bad

What a book. What a final line. New York Fucking City, forever.

What a book. What a final line. New York Fucking City, forever.

Ouch dude that sucks what a bummer

Ouch dude that sucks what a bummer

Well this is the least surprising turn of events

Well this is the least surprising turn of events

Finally reading the third book in Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy and it's lik

Finally reading the third book in Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy and it's like a cool drink of water on a hot summer day after accidentally picking up a romance novel that read like it was half AI generated and some obscure sci-fi that managed to go nowhere slowly

This is blowing my mind

This is blowing my mind

Had to hide the bee burrito post it was giving me visceral ick

Had to hide the bee burrito post it was giving me visceral ick

Baby face

Baby face

I only know they exist because I bought a friend a star wars porg one years ago

I only know they exist because I bought a friend a star wars porg one years ago

I mean as an author for them it's incredibly depressing to know that I'm working

I mean as an author for them it's incredibly depressing to know that I'm working with a group that reduced their editorial staff so much they're willing to publish whatever

Man also talk about diminishing your brand, it's just incredibly disappointing t

Man also talk about diminishing your brand, it's just incredibly disappointing that O'Reilly has turned into an AI slop shop

Honestly surprised by people eager to put their legal name next to AI slop writi

Honestly surprised by people eager to put their legal name next to AI slop writing. Have some dignity.

Unsubscribing from the O'Reilly substack because they keep publishing clearly AI

Unsubscribing from the O'Reilly substack because they keep publishing clearly AI-written crap

Dense to the point of should've been a doc is at least useful at work. People ma

Dense to the point of should've been a doc is at least useful at work. People making PowerPoints like they're giving conference keynote talks for work drive me insane. I banned http AI-generated work presentations for my team partly to prevent this

This is so exciting Asher I'm extremely jealous of you getting to experience thi

This is so exciting Asher I'm extremely jealous of you getting to experience this

"Rents are comically overpriced—in July, the average rent for an apartment in Br

"Rents are comically overpriced—in July, the average rent for an apartment in Brooklyn was $4,257 per month—and with available housing stock in the borough down 8.6" Jesus it's bad out there!!!!

"From him I learned that writing requires an unending effort at something resemb

"From him I learned that writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think." (obvious conclusions left to my reader)

Magnolia Punch Drunk Love The Social Network Honestly many movies from the gross

Magnolia Punch Drunk Love The Social Network Honestly many movies from the gross dudes era, I got really sick of the underlying sexism of early 2000s movies

If you're wondering the first weird quirks I think of when saying this are thing

If you're wondering the first weird quirks I think of when saying this are things like Bridgewater's weird culture or companies with 50+ people to each manager, Jane Street using ocaml barely rates (hedge funds all have weird quirks)

It wasn't like terrible and I didn't intend to start a whole thing but it devolv

It wasn't like terrible and I didn't intend to start a whole thing but it devolved into ranting about things I didn't say or intend and got too nasty. I didn't mean to bring that much grief to either of us

I don't hate engineers when I say this btw I'm literally thinking of myself and

I don't hate engineers when I say this btw I'm literally thinking of myself and my own behaviors believe it or not I still think of myself at times as an engineer

Mea culpa I shouldn't quote disagree with people it's never a productive way to

Mea culpa I shouldn't quote disagree with people it's never a productive way to communicate

Ew dude

Ew dude

Sorry if you think my claims aren't defensible but we're basically both in the r

Sorry if you think my claims aren't defensible but we're basically both in the realm anecdata here eh?

I mean unfortunately I have seen all kinds of environments and people do blame t

I mean unfortunately I have seen all kinds of environments and people do blame the tools a lot. They blame the third party ones and first party ones. Third party is nih, first party is "this doesn't work the way I expect from other jobs/I can't Google it/it's hard to support"

Don't put words into my mouth

Don't put words into my mouth

Bro I don't think that technology doesn't matter I just think specialty tooling

Bro I don't think that technology doesn't matter I just think specialty tooling probably isn't the magic we all kind of wish it would be

we are quick to credit weird quirks for companies' success when really their suc

we are quick to credit weird quirks for companies' success when really their success is usually some form of inventing a money printer and monopolizing it effectively and thus being allowed to indulge in weird quirks

wait I thought this was a show for wives. It's for men? It's about a handsome du

wait I thought this was a show for wives. It's for men? It's about a handsome dude who beats bad guys up and treats ladies nice, seems like chick flick to me (laudatory)

a press culture that harasses people to death is just a truly fucked up system

a press culture that harasses people to death is just a truly fucked up system

This is fucking tragic jesus christ man what the hell

This is fucking tragic jesus christ man what the hell

That's one way to do it

That's one way to do it

one of my least favorite things in modern literary fiction is the chapter from t

one of my least favorite things in modern literary fiction is the chapter from the dog's point of view in order to allow some sort of smarmy vaseline lens feelings view of the situation, reinforce which characters are "good" or "bad' or reverse that by making the bad characters beloved by dog. ugh.

This is why I don't like to give execs direct data access

This is why I don't like to give execs direct data access

I'm so, so annoying

I'm so, so annoying

Currently playing a game of "if you give a mouse a cookie" only it's "if you giv

Currently playing a game of "if you give a mouse a cookie" only it's "if you give an exec access to the data and AI to write the queries" and I'm the exec

Baby

Baby

It's so fucking expensive bro it just feels offensive

It's so fucking expensive bro it just feels offensive

Why is this article so long Why does every article feel like it needs to be a d

Why is this article so long Why does every article feel like it needs to be a dissertation instead of one point made well

hate this

hate this

*shakes head sadly* did you move to San Francisco Bea? What exactly were you thi

*shakes head sadly* did you move to San Francisco Bea? What exactly were you thinking with that?

that is.... weird. And funny. It must be dwarfed by the size of that room surely

that is.... weird. And funny. It must be dwarfed by the size of that room surely

I've got a good speaking voice though so we'll have to lean on that

I've got a good speaking voice though so we'll have to lean on that

Well I'm not sure I've got those either unfortunately

Well I'm not sure I've got those either unfortunately

I think I'm going to lean in even more on ugly simple slides for talks now that

I think I'm going to lean in even more on ugly simple slides for talks now that it's that much easier to generate slick ones that say nothing

I can't help but feel deeply anxious at the fact that more and more people spend

I can't help but feel deeply anxious at the fact that more and more people spend much of their time chatting with a mostly-identical AI conversation partner, having language and thought patterns influenced by one of a handful of entities, more than even the most popular media of the past

Also let there be no confusion: I was typing this on my laptop keyboard, not typ

Also let there be no confusion: I was typing this on my laptop keyboard, not typically a place I expect any autocorrection to be happening!

OK, the answer is autocorrect

OK, the answer is autocorrect

What the fuck which of these should I turn off to avoid this??

What the fuck which of these should I turn off to avoid this??

I mean it's a pretty normal assumption!

I mean it's a pretty normal assumption!

I'll say though I tried the naturepedic which was probably my second choice and

I'll say though I tried the naturepedic which was probably my second choice and it has this thing where you can have the two halves of the bed configured differently and they're literally different underlying components, for future reference

Although I will say mattress shopping alone is weird because everyone else is in

Although I will say mattress shopping alone is weird because everyone else is in couples and you're like nope just me looking

Ah well see here's the beautiful thing we do not sleep in the same bed so it doe

Ah well see here's the beautiful thing we do not sleep in the same bed so it doesn't matter

Ok you all gave me lovely suggestions and I ended up with none of them. After tr

Ok you all gave me lovely suggestions and I ended up with none of them. After trying several mattresses yesterday and today I'm gambling on one from Charles p Rogers that I liked the best trying out. Fingers crossed. Mattress shopping really is the worst.

Does Reddit just literally not allow you to read them on mobile web anymore?

Does Reddit just literally not allow you to read them on mobile web anymore?

Who up doing long reads on Marat? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Who up doing long reads on Marat? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I just think the point of a rubber duck is that it doesn't talk back, lead your

I just think the point of a rubber duck is that it doesn't talk back, lead your thinking, or actively influence you, and AI does all of those things actively

yeah, that's I've got ok at least

yeah, that's I've got ok at least

I appreciate that this post doesn't assume you know either what "working towards

I appreciate that this post doesn't assume you know either what "working towards the Fürher" is or what gooning is

You might try a new mattress. I have literally been sleeping in my son's bed whi

You might try a new mattress. I have literally been sleeping in my son's bed while he's at sleepaway camp and it's better so I am confident that's a big part of the problem

Who has lower back pain, hips, sleeps on their side, and loves their mattress? I

Who has lower back pain, hips, sleeps on their side, and loves their mattress? I need a new mattress badly.

I prefer my thoughts to be influenced by real people and not an amalgamation of

I prefer my thoughts to be influenced by real people and not an amalgamation of ideas

I am not philosophically opposed to AI and I use it for a few things but I just

I am not philosophically opposed to AI and I use it for a few things but I just can't bring myself to use it as a thought partner for anything I really care about being my own intellectual product

I'd say totally fine although he might get bored due to the length

I'd say totally fine although he might get bored due to the length

Ok. The new album is good.

Ok. The new album is good.

I will give it to my youngest for sure. I am definitely totally into the idea of

I will give it to my youngest for sure. I am definitely totally into the idea of giving kids more access to wikipedia data and encouraging them to use it

clearly I was not reading your earlier thread very closely!

clearly I was not reading your earlier thread very closely!

Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI

Revisiting Manager READMEs

Dude, Where’s My Strategy?

Things I Currently Believe About AI and Tech Employment

10 Years of Engineering Ladders

The Senior Shortcut

I'm working through my own version of "I just need to" meme only it's trying to

I'm working through my own version of "I just need to" meme only it's trying to describe platform engineering as both "not just fancy configuration management scripting" and also "not magic heroku" anyway here's something on the first topic https://skamille.medium.com/platform-engineering-beyond-cfengine-daa9268c9c5b

Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine

If your platform team is still mostly focused on making it easy to provision inf

If your platform team is still mostly focused on making it easy to provision infrastructure and configure stuff, you're still early early days. Value unlock happens when you're responsible for the operations of more of that underlying stack and not just getting it provisioned correctly. This is hard work but we have to move past the land of yaml eventually.

Following The Manager’s Path

Officially have too many different social media places to keep track of, but I w

Officially have too many different social media places to keep track of, but I was recently on Lenny's podcast talking about product management, management, platform engineering, and more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/engineering-leadership-camille-fournier

Founders Create Managers

Unlike parents, managers aren't (usually) responsible for the lives of minors, t

Unlike parents, managers aren't (usually) responsible for the lives of minors, thank goodness (sorry but this is always and forever a bad analogy on both sides managers are not parents in any way shape or form) https://mastodon.social/@Patricia@vivaldi.net/112502012248527136

Oh lord people are saying management is a zero interest rate phenomenon? Folks,

Oh lord people are saying management is a zero interest rate phenomenon? Folks, management is not about making people who can just get jobs elsewhere feel good, it's about setting up the ideal circumstances for getting shit done; the opposite of a ZIRP

I think the point that some are starting to make about political opinions, eg, h

I think the point that some are starting to make about political opinions, eg, how would you actually turn this ideal into policy, is useful to consider when sharing engineering/leadership opinions as well. My experience is even when having a pretty clear idea of both what I want to do and how I will roll it out to my team, it's still usually multiple iterations until we actually get something tha