Adam Jacob

It is a bummer, right?

It’s a lot better than I thought it would be. Had to throw away some prototypes, but it’s good! Turns out the magic data transformation machine loves highly structured data about infrastructure

Watching it play with you in real time in the web ui as it works makes it feel truly collaborative. It's great. Can't wait to show you

You're going to be blown away by how good using AI with System Initiative is. It's already handling fairly complex AWS deployments, troubleshooting issues, doing comprehensive summaries of changes. Having real high fidelity models, with an API that maps 1:1 makes it look easy.

This is the “I hope the Lakers win the Super Bowl” of rockstar quotes.

Do not work 9am to 9pm 6 days a week, taking all your "free breakfast, lunch, and dinner" with your co-workers. I love startups. I love working. I want to win. I've learned I should not sacrifice my life, or my family, to that love. You shouldn't either. We're worth more than that.

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

My friends. This is not a good idea: www.wired.com/story/silico... - take it from every single wisdom tradition in the history of the world. You can love your work, but your work cannot love you back. Have more respect for yourself and your peers. Work hard. Do good work.

This was so bad that folks forced to work it literally had to write a new license with a pun about 996 working, ICU waiting

Going to be a hell of a time.

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o... 🦇😔

Tribute (Live) by Ozzy Osbourne on Apple Music Album · 1987 · 14 Songs

Rest well, Ozzy. Everyone listen to Tribute in his honor today. music.apple.com/us/album/tri...

I mean, who hasn’t deleted a production database on accident? HugOps to Replits AI agent. :)

Can System Initiative fix devops? System Initiative proposes a radical overhaul of infrastructure automation to address infrastructure-as-code chaos and longstanding devops toil.

System Initiative turns traditional devops on its head. It translates what would normally be infrastructure configuration code into data, creating digital twins that model the infrastructure. (Story by @doerrfeldbill.bsky.social)

A good post: www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/r...

Matt was a complicated person. He, to put it mildly, ruffled a lot of feathers. He was both a person who made a real difference in my life, and in the lives of others, in a positive way - and for many folks, in a very negative one. I always considered him a friend regardless.

Oh no, mst has died. www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/r... - when I was first learning that I might be a "real" programmer, it was Matt who encouraged me to contribute more. I learned a lot from him, and his belief in me made a real difference in my life. Rest in peace, sir.

While I'm thinking about Ozzy's last show - Isaac Carpenter, the new drummer in Guns N' Roses, fucking crushed that show. I've seen them a lot, and I didn't mind Frank's drumming.. but it didn't stand out. Isaac's does. He's got technical precision and the swing Adler had. A great fit.

Totally. Nuno can play anything and it’s great.

Finished watching Back to the Beginning. That was the best rock concert of all time, and couldn’t have been a more fitting send off to Ozzy and the mighty Black Sabbath. Teary eyed.

GitHub - psviderski/uncloud: A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨ A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨ - psviderski/uncloud

This looks sick. github.com/psviderski/u... - habitat had many similar design goals. I love that the swing here is "just docker". Great work!

Yes. It's not "write this code for me", it's "write this code with me" - you have to be really on top of it.

We'll see what happens, but I'll be surprised if the primary way we interact with coding agents is through our editors in a few years. It'll become more and more clear that the game is actually working together, and having separate space makes more sense.

If you aren't using claude code while you write code, you're making a mistake. It's great.

I share your disappointment

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

You don't care about avoiding drift. The modern world (in general!) doesn't drift like the 1990s did. You care about your intent, and you care about validating your configuration is working, auditable, and repeatable. Drift is a red herring in the modern cloud.

and apply the functional and compliance testing *to the actual configuration*, because it's the thing you care about. We need to get back the ability to see if its right *before* it is applied - which you get from building a "digital twin", where you run the same tests against your *intent*

none of which points you to a solution where you "declare" the state of the load balancer, then "reconcile" it with the outside world. It means we need to *model* the load balancer, track its configuration over time (regardless of how the configuration was changed)

4) to be able to report on how it changes over time, and ideally why it changes.

What we need is: 1) to track the current (actual) configuration of the load balancer, so that we can rebuild it if it fails. 2) to update that configuration when the reality changes. 3) to ensure the load balancer is functional (testing) and compliant (policy).