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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 5h

A bright and sunny day at agentic coding con @ @nextapp.bsky.social. Tomorrow I'm speaking about Context Engineering in room 2. But for today let's learn and enjoy some talks 😊

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What are people using agent skills for? I came across the @vercel.com State of Skills blog a few days ago, and I wasn't particularly surprised that software engineering has the dominant share of installs. vercel.com/blog/state-o...

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How does human-in-the-loop relate to AI SRE agents? Ahead of my talk tomorrow at Women in OOPs I've been thinking about this: 1. Accurate SLOs, telemetry and human reports are important context 2. Do humans approve all changes? 3. Which actions shouldn't they do? Registration 👇 luma.com/9g25u0n9

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Amsterdam friends, if you're at #AGNTCon come by the @elastic.co booth and say hi. A few awesome people already have!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Off hunting for a special bear with Mr R and the wee man

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What are you up to on Thursday? If you're interested in learning about developer tools that you can use in your AI agents, I'll be speaking about search with #elasticsearch at @auth0byokta.bsky.social dev_night on Thursday 10th September. Registration 👇. luma.com/devnight-lon... See you there!

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dev_night London: The Actionable Agent · Luma

dev_night London: The Actionable Agent [In-person event in London] This developer-focused meetup hosted by Auth0 brings developers together to explore how…

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm exciting to be speaking at O'Reilly's Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Agentic Observability on September 9 at 10:00am ET (3:00pm BST). If you want to learn about the current tools and practices register for free 👇 bit.ly/3URi1Wi See you there!

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Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Agentic Observability - O'Reilly Media

Move from systems that show to systems that act

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The time off continues with some extreme science with Mr R and the wee man at Brainiac Live.🥼🧪 I'm glad to have a seat after the obstacle course yesterday 😅

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tuesday's views. Enough said 😌

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are any of my London friends going to AgentCon on 8th September? I'm excited to be speaking about context engineering and why retrieval is important for AI systems. globalai.community/e/x79ncrl7 See you there! 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

3 years ago I wrote that LLMs were like happy, excitable 4-year-olds. Now that my son is 7 ( 😱 ) I wanted to reflect on whether LLMs have "grown up" in a similar way. Check out my new post 👇 : carlyrichmond.com/2026/08/06/g...

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Growing pains

Have LLM’s progressed at the same rate of development as my 7-year old? Here I muse on their advancements over the last 3 years.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The next meetup is officially live! 🚀 At the next Elastic London meetup we're diving into software factories and observability with SuperPlane with an evening unconference! 📅 Tuesday, 1st September 📍 Elastic London Office Register here: luma.com/you-8r5c See you there!

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The Software Factory with SuperPlane & Elastic London - When Agents Build, Ship, and Fix Your Code · Luma

Software factories are here. AI agents write code, open PRs, run tests, deploy to production, and respond to incidents - all without waiting for a human to…

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you missed my session on retrieval at TypeScript AI (😱) you can watch it back (along with the other awesome talks) 👇: www.youtube.com/live/dYAJ-LS... For those wanting to dive straight into the code it's below: github.com/carlyrichmon... Until next time!

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TSAI Conf London

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📣 Attention all #elasticsearch users! ElasticON is back! The call for papers is now open for Mumbai, NYC, Amsterdam, SF, London, and Singapore. We're looking for @elastic.co use cases in search, observability and security. If you have an idea submit 👇 . sessionize.com/elasticon-to...

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Elastic{ON} Tour 2026/2027: Call for Speakers

ElasticON is Elastic's free, one-day event series happening around the world. Submit your talks to present in:Mumbai: September 30, 2026New York City:...

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

An exciting day of learning (and sharing as I'm talking about retrieval and #elasticsearch later today) at Mastra's Typescript AI. Off the a good start learning about evals as the new TDD💡.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to our first @elastic.co hack night in London in collaboration with DevOps Society. We saw some cool agentic SRE projects, some fun failures, but we all worked and learned together which is awesome. See you at the next event! 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

At last a brainwave combined forces with time to write a piece for my personal blog! I've been mulling over the need for Wargaming and it's still relevance to SREs in the AI age. I would say we still need it. Check it out and share what you think: carlyrichmond.com/2026/06/09/w...

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Wargaming in the AI Era

AI continues to dominate our discussions, including in incident response and SRE. The emergence of AI assistants, AI-generated code and self-remediation agents shows that SRE is very much embracing…

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

To my current and aspiring #DevRel friends in the Netherlands. 📣 We are looking for an Advocate in Amsterdam to join the Elastic team. If you are passionate about speaking, sharing technical content with the developer community, and writing code do apply! jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...

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Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI P...

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It was great to see new and familiar faces at the OOPS meetup with Uptime Labs, @elastic.co and PagerDuty last night. We had many interesting conversations on incident management, AI and human in the (many) loops. My slides are 👇 github.com/elastic/meet... Until next time!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Once you've connected your first MCP server to Elastic, you may think the tools can only be used as agent tools. The import also creates a connector which can be used in alerts, cases or workflows. The things you learn when preparing a demo! Example workflow in screenshot 👇 .

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

For my London friends, @elastic.co , PagerDuty and Uptime Labs are hosting an incident response social on 1st June in Greenwich. We'll have lightning talks on Human in the Loop (including from myself), 🍹 and 🍕 . Register: www.meetup.com/london-elast... See you there!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm looking forward to visiting Bristol again tomorrow to speak at @dddsouthwest.com! I'll be giving an overview of context engineering with my example travel planner agent. See you tomorrow everyone!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Going back to my roots at @agilemanc.bsky.social. I'm not a Scrum Master anymore, but enjoying checking out the other talks before I take to the stage later to discuss OpenTelemetry.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Tomorrow is the night! I'm presenting on MCP context with a touch of the new MCP Observability App from @elastic.co thrown in. We'll also have talks on token reduction from @cloudflare.social, agent sandboxing from @upsun.com and @microsoft.com on VSCode support for the MCP spec. See you then!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm looking forward to catching up with old and new friends at @devoxx.uk next week. I have 2 talks on Retrieval in AI and Observing AI applications. Not to mention helping as MC for Aspiring Speakers! If you still haven't got your ticket ( 😱 ) use code SEEMESPEAK26. See you next week!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Whether you're an expert or just curious, come along to the meetup on 14th May. I'll be talking about @elastic.co MCP apps for retrieval and observability. Looking forward to hearing from @upsun.com , @cloudflare.social and @microsoft.com too. Register here: luma.com/eb8j6lhu See you there! 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I know first hand that it's scary to stand up and speak at a conference for the first time. That's exactly why we given them support to take to the stage at @devoxx.uk. If you're attending do come along and support these aspiring speakers!

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Programmatically recreating indices is important for setting up Elasticsearch clusters in a consistent way during deployments, as well as spinning up environments for testing. I've been doing exactly that today with @elastic.co Workflows.

Example check and create index with Elastic Workflows

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The obvious advice for vibe engineering at @cityjsconf.bsky.social London. The majority of these look similar to advice from traditional engineering practices such as trunk-based development. Especially commit often and use (hopefully short-lived) branches.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Looking forward to connecting with fellow JavaScript developers at the @cityjsconf.bsky.social London. It's always a great start when you encounter familiar friendly faces at the door. 😁

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Brb. Off magic hunting with Mr and mini R ✨

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📣 Attention mobile developer friends! The CFP is open for ai devCon taking place in Berlin in October. I'm excited to be reviewing submissions for the AI track. If you're doing something cool with AI and mobile we would love to see your submissions: sessionize.com/nextapp26

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next.app devcon: Call for Speakers

next.app devcon is where mobile developers from every ecosystem and community unite to level-up, build strong networks and build what's next. next.app...

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Lazy Sunday after KubeCon with decorating Stroopwaffles and the cinema 😌

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Interesting point on access controls for AI telemetry information here at KubeCon. We share all sorts of personal information with agents. Not everyone needs access to full prompts and outputs. PII sanitation is also important just as we do with logs.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A busy day at KubeCon. This great diagram from the OTTL debugging talk is a useful intro to the telemetry data model

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Come find me and my amazing @elastic.co colleagues around the conference and at booth 980 if you want to talk about observability and AI 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

End of KubeCon Monday, and it's been a busy one with the Elastic and PagerDuty meetup with Alex Wert and Daniel Afonso speaking, and the first talk of the week from my colleague Roger Coll! Come say hi at booth 980 tomorrow 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I came across an interesting read on head-based probabilistic sampling in OTel SDKs. For Node.js it's the default. You just need to configure the sampling rate. In @elastic.co EDOT it's via sampling_rate or OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG. OTel SDK code in image. Article: www.elastic.co/observabilit...

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

One of my favourite parts of @devoxx.uk is chatting on the hallway track. I'll be at the @elastic.co booth with colleagues if you want to chat about search, observability and developer life! See you there 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What tools are people using for debugging Grok expressions? I used to default to tools such as regex101.com. But this week I've been quite impressed with generating expressions using the AI generated pattern feature in @elastic.co Streams, or even Cursor CLI.

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Coding at home with the wee one as well as at work ☺️. Does anyone recognise this game? #developer #devlife

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

To my #DevRel friends in the Netherlands, we're currently looking for an Advocate based in Amsterdam to join the @elastic.co team. If you have a passion for the developer community, events and writing code do consider applying! jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...

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Senior Developer Advocate

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's Elastic{ON} day! If you're around and have questions come say hi at the AMA booth! #elasticsearch #ama

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Agents and APIs meetup is this week! Join me on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Snyk to learn about #ai agent production practices such as #testing, #observability (by yours truly) and #security: luma.com/b51l0bug?tk=... See you then 👋 !

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Agents & APIs London Developer Meetup · Luma

Supercharge your dev game at the Agents and APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman. Do you: Need to put your AI agents into production? Create APIs…

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

How much do you know about agentic memory and the role it plays in #contextengineering 🧠 ? If this is new to you join me at AI Coding Summit in February to find out! Register with my badge 👇 : gitnation.com/badges/ai-co... See you there! 👋

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Carly Richmond @carlyrichmond.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Agents and APIs meetup on 12th Feb alongside speakers from Postman and Synk. If you're interested in agent production practices such as testing, observability and security do register to come along: luma.com/b51l0bug?tk=... See you then 👋 !

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Agents & APIs London Developer Meetup · Luma

Supercharge your dev game at the Agents and APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman. Do you: Need to put your AI agents into production? Create APIs…

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