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Posts by Graham Siener

A large slide fills most of the image, projected in a modern glass-walled auditorium. The slide has a pink background with bold red text at the top:

“Managers have been vibe coding forever”

Below is a bulleted list in plain red text:
	•	tell dev to implement a new feature (vibe coding)
	•	dev makes changes to code
	•	manager tests app
	•	manager does not read the code
	•	manager complains about bugs
	•	dev makes changes to fix bugs
	•	manager doesn’t read the code (again)
	•	dev says “done, by now”
	•	manager says “gj but be faster next time” or insults the living hell out of the dev

In the lower-left foreground, a speaker stands behind a black podium labeled:

AI Engineer
Code Summit
Presented by Google DeepMind

The room is bright with floor-to-ceiling windows behind the stage showing greenery and modern architecture outside.

A large slide fills most of the image, projected in a modern glass-walled auditorium. The slide has a pink background with bold red text at the top: “Managers have been vibe coding forever” Below is a bulleted list in plain red text: • tell dev to implement a new feature (vibe coding) • dev makes changes to code • manager tests app • manager does not read the code • manager complains about bugs • dev makes changes to fix bugs • manager doesn’t read the code (again) • dev says “done, by now” • manager says “gj but be faster next time” or insults the living hell out of the dev In the lower-left foreground, a speaker stands behind a black podium labeled: AI Engineer Code Summit Presented by Google DeepMind The room is bright with floor-to-ceiling windows behind the stage showing greenery and modern architecture outside.

truth hurts

5 months ago 127 22 2 4
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I use this button constantly

7 months ago 4 0 0 0

I'm a reverse ATM for my kids these days. They hand me cash and I send it back as Apple Cash 🙃

9 months ago 3 0 1 0
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"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani."

That's Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Former public editor of the New York Times, and a shrewd judge of newsroom character. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

9 months ago 1788 475 39 29
a visual pipeline builder showing "receive data -> send to s3 archive" and "receive data -> keep http errors -> keep slow traces -> sample 1 in 10 -> send to honeycomb"

an engineer's speech bubble says "Let's adjust the sample rate."

a visual pipeline builder showing "receive data -> send to s3 archive" and "receive data -> keep http errors -> keep slow traces -> sample 1 in 10 -> send to honeycomb" an engineer's speech bubble says "Let's adjust the sample rate."

Engineer: What's this user doing?
Engineer 2: "Let's enhance with more data from our S3 archive."

a Honeycomb query builder is shown with a heatmap and count, with a customer id and url selected. the button "enhance from archive" is highlighted, along with the time range being enhanced

Engineer: What's this user doing? Engineer 2: "Let's enhance with more data from our S3 archive." a Honeycomb query builder is shown with a heatmap and count, with a customer id and url selected. the button "enhance from archive" is highlighted, along with the time range being enhanced

We just launched powerful new capabilities in the Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline, including graphical pipeline building functionality and "Enhance", which gives teams the ability to do the detective show-style "enhance the letters on that plate" for sampled data.

AMA Thurs/Fri on @honeycomb.io!

9 months ago 71 16 5 4

this has to end. these people have to go. let the people who have to try to live in the future you ghouls created try to navigate it. youve done enormous, unfathomable damage already. retire

9 months ago 1676 288 26 3
CNN: Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' and 'Parks and Recreation' actor, has died at 59

text: Jonathan Joss, an actor who voiced the character of John Redcorn on “King of the Hill” and appeared as Ken Hotate on “Parks and Recreation,” has died following a shooting incident, according to police in San Antonio, Texas. https://cnn.it/3FCI1gT

CNN: Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' and 'Parks and Recreation' actor, has died at 59 text: Jonathan Joss, an actor who voiced the character of John Redcorn on “King of the Hill” and appeared as Ken Hotate on “Parks and Recreation,” has died following a shooting incident, according to police in San Antonio, Texas. https://cnn.it/3FCI1gT

The exonerative voice was initially reserved for cops, but now it's applied to the IDF and even random hate criminals

10 months ago 4207 742 159 87
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

10 months ago 39754 13820 1264 815
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User taps → API stalls → UI hangs → User bails. Sound familiar?

🙌 Honeycomb Frontend Observability now supports mobile. Fix prod mobile issues with deep, end-to-end visibility

✅ See user journeys from tap to backend
✅ OTel-based SDKs — no lock-in
✅ No seat/custom metric fees

tinyurl.com/2ccpc5nm

11 months ago 3 3 0 1
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Or, to quote something I find myself asking a lot recently, "Wait, you think or you _know_?"

We need to get to a point of knowing and so far it's been relatively easy to defer this in the short run to little consequence. This just expedites the conversation and puts the impetus on contracts.

11 months ago 1 1 0 0

Hoping that llms.txt gains broader adoption; that will help us bake solid OpenTelemetry instrumentation in by default

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Observations from this article on "tech" chat groups: 1) they are 100% male, 2) they are texting all day, 3) they seem to have little other work to do, 4) these are investors, not true 'techies', 4) the author of the article seems not to realize himself how airless and homogeneous these groups are.

11 months ago 2458 441 55 77

Ugh not sure. Hate that I have to do this research. Should probably buy something unsexy like Honeywell

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Nest let me know they're stopping app support for the Nest thermostat we bought 10 years ago. Good news, they're offering me a half price upgrade. Why tf would I spend money to opt BACK INTO this situation?

Another obnoxious @killedbygoogle.com moment

11 months ago 2 0 0 0
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Doesn't it feel like Slack should have tabs? Didn't it used to?

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Is Ted Cruz the biggest loser ever? Many people are saying.

1 year ago 32 1 1 0

once again the political consultants who forced Tim Walz to stop calling these freaks “weird” should be shot into the sun

1 year ago 985 97 17 0
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Thanks for this experience, @linkedin.com

1 year ago 2 0 1 0
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Yep

1 year ago 49479 15343 745 591

Who can I pay to rollover my 401ks and HSAs. This is maybe the worst user experience I've faced in a minute

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
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It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

1 year ago 4937 1421 145 50

When DOGE cuts aviation safety and planes crash, when Medicaid is demolished and your community hospital closes, when trans care is banned through pulling funding, when Musk subverts democracy…

These dems own it.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

1 year ago 4724 1430 123 87

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

1 year ago 59026 19772 4014 2280
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oh got it www.tarapalmeri.com/p/fear-and-l...

1 year ago 4282 951 184 326

Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world.

As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.

It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️

1 year ago 49 8 3 1
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Gonna plug this in and undo 5 years of platform regression

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