I recognised this was grounded in an entirely different world of software engineering and organisation size though. I followed a path of thinking about what went wrong historically and how might they be solved: Better structure, discipline, resources - all of the things which agentic AI facilitates.

You are right about most skipping this part: But I view it as being like a sewerage and sanitation system - largely invisible and not thought about but critical for long-term health.

Also this ties in very nicely with Netflix's approach to Chaos Engineering and enabling it at broader scale.

Edit to add: This might spur on a few more to start doing that, but people are quick to forget/prioritise other areas. If this keeps happening then it will change.

In my own cases of responsibility, Caddy would have eliminated them had it been around. Instead I've learned to be paranoid, though having things like this are far better in terms of easing cognitive burden.

Cheers for all of the hard work by you and other maintainers.

My 2nd thought: Actually, this is very likely a culture/communication difference whereby both people care (I'm a big fan of Erin Meyer's work here)

My 3rd thought: I wonder what happens if I provide this repo and the chat comments to codex. Outcome: https://github.com/wsimmonds/caddy/pull/1

My 4th though: Perhaps I can make 'enemies' become friends if they both have disdain for AI ;)

Note: I would absolutely not submit this as-is. Caddy's an amazing project though I am not very familiar with its implementation and I'd seek to understand it, conventions etc. and make some obvious improvements to the code which has been generated - but this was a minor bit of fun. I created 4 separate versions and only in one of them did anything with TLS related get amended.

I ought to caveat that from a KYC perspective, I likely would have been 'easy' since my career history involves many well-known companies and the requested account was for a UK company that has been running for nearly 20 years.

Though I'm no longer personally in the UK. Microsoft on the other hand: It was impossible for me to open up an Azure account even with their Customer Support. Suspect I will have to use Tailscale to bypass overly rigid geographical controls.

I nearly moved away from Twilio having read the negative feedback, but my personal experience so far was very prompt support.

I try not to look/think back too much - I had (sort of still have) a very successful career but the costs associated with getting there were and are still being paid for.

Getting treatment and therapy has really helped improve my ability to be present, though still such a battle.

Really cool product, as someone currently attempting to build a somewhat similar internal tool I have an understanding of some of the pain points involved.

Please don't allow yourselves to be bought out by Apple in the way Buddy Build were back in 2018 though! (and then shut down)

https://software.inc/jobs

- An extremely dedicated and high achieving professional, at the very top of her game with deep industry/sectoral knowledge: Successful and with outstanding connections. - Mother of a young child. - Tradition/requirement for success within the sector was/is working extremely long hours: 80-hour weeks are common.

She's implemented AI to automate many of her previous laborious tasks and literally cut down her required hours by 90%. She's now able to spend more time with her family, but also - able to now focus on growing/scaling in ways previously impossible.

Knowing how to use it, what to rely upon, what to verify and building in effective processes is the key. But today AI is at its worst and it already exceeds human performance in many areas.. it's only going in one direction.

Hopefully the spotlight becomes humanity being able to focus on what makes us human and our values, not mundane/routine tasks and allows us to better focus on higher-value/relationships.

I was in the VC space for a while previously, most pitch decks claimed to be using AI: But doing even the briefest of DD - it was generally BS. Now it's real.

With respect to everything being awful: One might say that's always been the case. However, now there's a chance (and requirement) to build in place safeguards/checks/evals and massively improve both speed and quality of services through AI.

Don't judge for the problems: Look at the exponential curve, think about how to solve the problems. Otherwise, you will get left behind.

I'm certain they'll get it right soon enough though. People were writing off Google in terms of AI until this year.. and oh how attitudes have changed.

Focus on the positive, the possibilities and what you can control and do. It's always time to be optimistic.

I put it in quotes because I'm a massive fan of Pulsar and addressing the shortcomings of Kafka. However, with regards to some choices at a former workplace: The broader existing support/integration ecosystem along with Confluent's commercial capabilities won out with regards to technology choices and I was forced to acquiesce.

A bit like Betamax vs VHS, albeit that one pre-dates me significantly.