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New comment by MrDarcy in "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them"

MrDarcy — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:48:05 +0000

Terraform, as with any language, is mostly useless for humans now. It is for the agents full stop. You are correct though, we need to know the underlying architecture and most importantly why it is the way it is.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?"

MrDarcy — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:19:50 +0000

We’ve been trusting (or distrusting) our agents for all of recorded history. The choice between Claude or Codex matters. Trust matters.

New comment by MrDarcy in "The Art of Money Getting"

MrDarcy — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:58:09 +0000

I think this is the comment that drives me off this site permanently. It’s been a good decade and a half.

New comment by MrDarcy in "The Art of Money Getting"

MrDarcy — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:48:22 +0000

> But how do you find a respectable one, in a gold rush?

Look for those who are trying to serve established respectable professions, ideally have already done so for many years or decades. Accounting, Legal, Healthcare, Journalism (in the ideal sense).

Then look at their own mission. Then look at their own work. Do they show their work? Are they open? Do they willingly allow their customers to audit their work product? Does how they talk about their work match the work product itself? Does the thing do what it says on the tin? Are they hypocrites with respect to those they serve or those they manage?

These are my strategies and I’ve found they lead to working almost exclusively with people who have high Integrity.

New comment by MrDarcy in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

MrDarcy — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:34:11 +0000

The article is incorrect and misleading. Railway did have an account manager and they did call them and they did pick up the phone and work with them to restore service.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:05:20 +0000

Google restored access but did not resolve the problem. VM’s were still shut down.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:04:12 +0000

It’s almost impossible not to any more. This is victim blaming at this point.

New comment by MrDarcy in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:57:54 +0000

3800 is low for an org like GitHub. Glad it’s highly likely not all their repos are compromised.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Google I/O"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:16:01 +0000

Nobody has taken away the freedom to program like we used to. Punch cards may be more expensive now, but vim and emacs are still as free as they ever were.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Google I/O"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:13:51 +0000

Clearly a matter of opinion and circumstances. Plenty of people with effectively zero cost access to agents who see value in implementing an operating system from scratch. The team who made the demo for example, and those of us who see the possibilities the demo inspires for another example.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:49:11 +0000

There’s no way this was automated or silent.

The only reasonable explanation is Railway lost control of their estate and something was happening that warranted a group of humans to decide flipping the kill switch was the best of a set of bad alternatives.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

MrDarcy — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:46:04 +0000

That’s strange, when I interviewed with the founder a few years ago he told me they were on AWS wanting to move to firecracker.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Google I/O"

MrDarcy — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:56:15 +0000

Why wouldn’t you want to?

New comment by MrDarcy in "Google I/O"

MrDarcy — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:54:54 +0000

Which is good. Why reinvent this particular wheel? Even I, a grey beard 30 year vim user appreciate VScode as my daily driver.

New comment by MrDarcy in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

MrDarcy — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:54:28 +0000

The error and omission of not enforcing mandatory security training covering posting plaintext passwords to public sites for CISA contractors is itself an act of gross negligence.

So much so the contracting company’s insurer would cite it as the reason why the claim is not covered by their policy.

New comment by MrDarcy in "AI is a technology not a product"

MrDarcy — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:12:34 +0000

Replace search for one.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

MrDarcy — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:07:51 +0000

Then you pay him since you see the value he’s creating so clearly.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Halt and Catch Fire"

MrDarcy — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:49:12 +0000

A reasonable proposal from a single person outside the IETF seems most likely to succeed.

It’s not like the IETF have any obvious success managing or deploying solutions to IP problems known for over 30 years.

New comment by MrDarcy in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

MrDarcy — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:46:33 +0000

This is insanity. Then let them learn by advancing their own goals, not the goals of their exploiter. I won’t even call it advising because it clearly is not as you yourself admit.

New comment by MrDarcy in "Claude for Legal"

MrDarcy — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:29:57 +0000

Your lawyer uses cloud software, this is no different.