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Not Every Problem Needs a Sledgehammer (opens the original)
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“I spoke to an engineer at one of our suppliers who said that in the last six months, he’s generated a million lines of code.”Michael Frendo, the CTO of New Relic, offered me that as evidence of acceleration, one data point among several. The counterweight came from the start of his own career, at Nortel in Ottawa: “Our telephone switch at the time had the largest code base in the world. It was the largest. It was 14 million lines of code, and it had 2,500 engineers working on it for decades. No
AI Fails Like We Do (opens the original)
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Ten minutes into our conversation, Sylvain Kalache drafted me into a role-play. “Let’s say I’m the SRE and William, you are the developer,” he said. Production is down. He runs git blame on the broken microservice and finds my name. “Hey William, how about you come sit next to me, or let’s jump in a Slack channel — maybe you can help me solve it.” That’s the oldest move in incident response: find the author, sit them next to the problem, let what’s in their head speed up the debugging. And git b
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