graham gilbert

Designing Infrastructure for Bounded Autonomy Introduction A production access request during an incident looks straightforward from far enough away.

I was working on a design doc recently with the help of AI when it generated a sentence that immediately made me stop.

The more I look at how we actually build systems now, the more it looks like Terraform is dead.

This is the final post in the series expanding on my talk about the path to Staff Engineer and beyond.

This is the fourth post in a series exploring the path from senior engineer to Staff engineer.

I was having a drink with a friend last weekend and the topic turned to AI - particularly about why so much AI-generated code is just slop.

This is the third post in a series exploring the path from senior engineer to Staff engineer.

This is the second part in a series expanding on the conference talks I have given this year about the path to Staff Engineer and beyond.

This post is the first in a series expanding on the conference talks I have given this year about the path to Staff Engineer and beyond.

It’s been nearly two years since I moved from being an Individual Contributor (IC) to a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) - a hybrid role that combines the responsibilities of a manager with those of a senior engineer.

This morning I spoke at MacDevOps:YVR on the topic of Staff Engineering.

This afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting at MacAD.UK in Brighton on the topic of Zero Trust for Mac admins.

In this talk, we’ll explore the benefits of having teams that reflect a wide array of backgrounds and perspectives.

This week, Mac Admins Open Source released a new tool called SOFA.

This week, I travelled to beautiful Gothenburg to speak at MacSysAdmin.

This morning I saw a major MDM vendor advertising an upcoming feature that will write scripts to manage your macOS devices for you using generative AI - sounds like the end of our profession, right?