• Bring back ops pride (source) talks about operations and development teams as adversaries rather than collaborators trying to build applications that are useful and reliable. I don’t love this framing but it is how some teams are setup to be. How can you tell which one you have?
  • On using simpler models for tasks via cli tooling vs api calls and mcp servers the latter of which sometimes require the thinking models, Simon Willison’s blog
  • It can be eye opening to hop into a system and look around sometimes to see what’s happening … or runnning :) - Rachel by the bay
  • Coordinating large groups of people in a company is hard. Some energy necessarily goes towards keeping everyone moving in the same direction. Lorin