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I've been calling LLMs superhuman at writing `jq`. It's like you're talking directly with the JSON.

Yes, the general trend is the unprecedented growth that we've seen. Typically one would have some time in advance to re-engineer the systems to support the increased in traffic and…

Hey folks, I'm Alex from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. We've just posted the retrospective for this incident: > On March 26–27, 2026, customers experienced elevate…

Hey folks, I'm Palcu from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. I just posted a small retro on the status page: > Between 14:17 and 17:11 UTC, our primary application data…

Hey folks, I’m Alex from the reliability team at Anthropic. We’re sorry for the downtime and we’ve posted a mini retrospective on our status page. We’re also be doing a more in dep…

Thank you! Opening an incident as soon as user impact begins is one of those instincts you develop after handling major incidents for years as an SRE at Google, and now at Anthropi…

Hello, I'm one of the engineers who worked on the incident. We have mitigated the incident as of 14:43 PT / 22:43 UTC. Sorry for the trouble.

There is an external incident now. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...

I confirm. I’m still doing reliability, but in a fun and exciting way for Claude and Anthropic.

One of the problems has been that most users have requested that quotas get updated as fast as possible and that they should be consistent across regions, even for global quotas. A…

seems to be OpenAI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155028

And the queries flow through.

My adjacent teams in London who work in SRE on Google Cloud (GCE) got some well deserved doughnuts today for rolling out the patches on time.

Yeah yeah, they've broken the old TweetDeck. You need to wait for the pop-up to ask you to transition to the new TweetDeck. Or, search on the internet for the Javascript variable y…

Life and experience, if you're looking for a short answer. For example, last year we had an outage in London[0] and the folks who worked on it learnt a lot. Now, they applied the l…

There's not much emotion as the core team working on the huge outages is more like an "SRE for SRE". They are all people who've been with the company for a long time and they've be…

[disclaimer: SRE @ Google, I was involved with the incident, obvious conflicts of interest] Hey Dang, thanks for cleaning up the thread. One thing to note is that the title is not …

I absolutely love the answer to any of the other obvious questions that one would have about the membership. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/memberships

Not ironic, just nominative determinism.

Hijacking the article, but has somebody managed to find a good iPhone/iPad keyboard for coding? I’m still able to do Python with the default keyboard, but I press a lot of times th…

I tried getting into the Crowdcube investment round, but after they got the allocations, the whole deal fell through and I was refunded. Needless to say I’m pretty happy they didn’…

Rest of world has a really good article about people from emerging markets that chose Luna because their home currency is unstable. https://restofworld.org/2022/argentina-nigeria-t…

Took it to the office today and I must say, this is a beautiful piece of engineering. Cheers to all the people that made it possible and here's for hundreds of years of continuous …

I was just imagining crowds of people in Trafalgar square singing "it's coming home" and it's not about football for once. Maybe next year...

For the nerds, there you can read about Euro English on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English