Jason Gorman

This time they've gone *too* far!

A New DORA Performance Level – Catastrophically Bad DORA (the DevOps Research Association) has 4 broad levels for dev team performance: Elite, High, Medium, and Low. A Low-Performing team deploys less than once a month, has lead times for changes &g…

According to data collected by DORA (DevOps Research & Assessment), some teams are "Elite" - shipping many times a day, while others are "Low-performing" - shipping < once a month

But some teams aren't shipping *at all*. I propose a new level just for them

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Finger in the air, I suspect.

"the fastest and most successful adopters are abandoning caring about the structure of the code it produces or even what language it uses"

Looking forward to seeing that data

"This study which methodically tested the same phenomenon across multiple models on many problems and carefully measured and analysed the results and found statistically significant trends doesn't chime with the feeling I get, therefore it's a bad study."

Yes, TV news. Please tell us more about people whose holiday plans have been affected.

That's the main tragedy.

An 8-bit gaming graphic of a flaming circle made from four arrows. Inside the circle is the text "the game over spiral".

I hope everyone is ready for DevOps Live tomorrow.

I'll see you at 2:30 pm in the DevOps Keynote Theatre to talk about the GAME OVER spiral during my talk "What if DevOps was really simple?'

#DevOps #DevOpsLive

Several people asked for a new picture of Molly, aka the Thing of Evil. Here she is.

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Complexity, coupling & cohesion, clarity (you can roughly measure how many different ways code can be interpreted using LLMs, for example), duplication, redundancy, adherence to coding standards (by linting, perhaps). Folks keep telling me code reviews can be automated now :-)

What's the measured impact on design quality of doing this?

I'm sure many people might be surprised to hear that this isn't a law already

That's easily fixed :-)

Yeah, About Your CLAUDE.md file… After 3 years experimenting with and learning about Large Language Models, I’ve long suspected that project-level or global context files are a waste of time. I’ve been advocating small…

As users of "AI" tools that produce human-like, plausible-looking outputs, we may be more prone to confirmation bias.

Beware: AI-assisted coding's replete with "best practices" that - when we actually measure the end results - turn out to be bad practices

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"For example, we now have a rule that makes it easy to request a conversation about a wrong architecture or user outcome *after* it has shipped."

We're saying the quiet part out loud now, are we?

Clean Contexts You’ve probably heard of “clean code” (and the “clean coder”, and “clean architecture”, and other things Bob Martin has added the word “clean” …

E os contextos precisam ser específicos para a tarefa e compostos por "verdade fundamental".

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It's very nice of Anthropic to conduct their agentic-coding-at-scale experiment in public.

If you want to see how it's going, I recommend 3 useful data sources:

* The Claude Code GitHub Issues page
* The Claude.ai status page
* The Anthropic Jobs page

The first, most critical step in transitioning to AI-assisted software development's to ESTABLISH YOUR BASELINE:

* Deployment frequency
* Lead time for changes
* Change failure rate
* Failure recovery time

If AI makes them go in the wrong direction, STOP USING IT and address your bottlenecks.

Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.

This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.

And we're making hope normal again - together.

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Like the METR study that found that devs who estimated they were 20% more productive using "AI", but were actually taking 19% longer, this is more evidence that - when it comes to judging effectiveness when using these tools, we're pretty unreliable judges.

Cui bono?

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.

The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

Be right back. Gonna punch my neighbor before he can punch me for getting punched by some other guy.

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Not on live patients, I hope! :-)

Texas AG Paxton Declares Therapists Affirming Trans Youth To Be Illegal And Child Abuse The declaration echoes his 2022 efforts to target parents of trans youth with child abuse, and may force conversion therapy on trans youth in the state.

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:

Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.

Its a horrifying escalation.

Most AI coding tools use static analysis - e.g. with TreeSitter - to build the context anyway. Curated context files present a competing picture that's usually out of date.

It dilutes the model's attention. Plus, it gets out of date fast.

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"