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For those of you just catching up, Cat and I are having a dialogue about how teams are changing in the era of AI.

After I posted “Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob” on LinkedIn last week, with links to the Honeycomb AI norms and values docs, I got this question from Niklas Lochschmidt: I am curious if you could share more light on the process?

This is a peek into the research behind our “AI Norms and Values” docs, which we developed over the summer and recently shared on our site.

(edited July 1st) I feel like most of you are missing the point of my piece.

I’ve been writing a series of pieces on lessons learned from our AI journey at Honeycomb.

I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot.

A few days back I wrote a piece called “AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy.”

I recently attended a talk where one of the presenters made some pretty…astonishing claims about what they had achieved by the pure, uncut power of vibe coding.

After twenty years of devops, most software engineers still treat observability like a fire alarm — something you check when things are already on fire.

Hey, it’s almost time for SRECon 2026!

This is the second in a two-part episode.

Last week I got to meet Martin Fowler for the first time in person.

I was planning to write something else today, but god dammit, I got nerd-sniped.

‘Tis the season that one of my favorite blog posts gets pulled out and put in rotation, much like “White Christmas” on the radio station.

I was at my very first job, Linden Lab, when EC2 and S3 came out in 2006.

I recently posted a short note about moving from Wordpress to Substack after ten years on WP.

Well, shit.

I was just watching a panel on observability, with a handful of industry executives and experts who shall remain nameless and hopefully duly obscured—their identities are not the point, the point is that this is a mainstream view among engineering executi…

My day started off with an innocent question, from an innocent soul.

Last month I dropped a desperate little plea for help in this space, asking people to email me any good advice and/or strong opinions they happened to have on the topic of buying software.

If it seems like I’ve been relatively quiet lately on social media and my blog, that’s because I have.

I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product.

I’ve never published an essay quite like this.