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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Debate is not an entitlement. It is a cooperative pursuit of truth. From Socrates to Habermas, the assumption has always been that participants owe one another honesty, charity, and the possibility of being persuaded.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is from Hartmut Rosa, referencing Walter Benjamin. German Erlibnissin (episodes of experience) and Erfahrungen (experiences which leave a mark)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There are experiences that we buy souvenirs to remember, and then there are experiences that stick with us because they're part of me. Experiences that stick are connected to the rest of my life. They're repeated; with family and friends; work that's ongoing; subjects of reflection.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Whilst individuals experience themselves as completely free, they also feel completely dominated by an ever increasing, excessive list of societal demands. - Hartmut Rosa,

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It might precisely be society's tireless strive for incessant innovation dynamization that undermines its capacity for essential innovation and creative adaptation. - Hartmut Rosa About how we don't get to be bored, idle, playing because of time pressure and competition.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

If a tree falls in the wood.and no one is there to hear it, then It made all possible sounds it might have made, in proportion to their likelihood

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hating a thing still centers the thing 😥 Yes, build something different instead. New ways of being together ... Which is mostly not online

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My boyfriend takes such inspiration from you. Your books teach us how to be together better with people who have it harder. Also I love the flowers in the concrete

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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 31/05/2026

New podcast up feat. @jessitron.bsky.social and myself!

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Very true. Thanks for connecting it here, it makes this place feel more real

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Graceful.Dev @graceful.dev · 31/05/2026

In which Jessitron and Avdi discuss using LLM agents to make improvement to development environments for both LLM and human coders. Also: the vindication of microservices?? graceful.dev/podcast/we-need-more-s…

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"We need more scaffolding"

In which Jessitron and Avdi discuss using LLM agents to make improvement to development environments for both LLM and human coders. Also: the vindication of microservices??

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

to be a little bit in love with you, and do nothing about it. #abundance

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Antithesis @antithesis.com · 19/03/2026

We hadn't heard of symmathesy before either. @jessitron.bsky.social from @honeycomb.io joined us on the BugBash podcast to talk about treating software as a teammate, how anything an AI can't understand is becoming "legacy code,"

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We get to be here in software for the biggest transition since compiled languages. @avdi.codes and I are building a course to bring everyone forward with understanding how coding agents work. Starting from "what does an LLM do." The first episode is up for subscribers now, and it's cute.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

That one piece of sushi that was next to the wasabi

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Graceful.Dev @graceful.dev · 23/04/2026

Avdi and Jessitron talk about brown M&Ms, ASCII trumpets, and why we need telltales to ensure our agents haven't missed something important. graceful.dev/podcast/no-poop-candy

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"No poop candy!"

Avdi and Jessitron talk about brown M&Ms, ASCII trumpets, and why we need telltales to ensure our agents haven't missed something important. Jo

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New podcast, for conversation about how we are learning to work with LLMS!

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This alter sleeve is so perfect. Recommend www.mythicgaming.com/products/404...

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Slack is like having a desk right next to six watercoolers

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I have two hours at the airport and an actual beer! It is like old times Now I get to work on my personal agent, getting Claude to write tools for itself This part is new times

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Morgan Gray @morgangray.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Black Yak | Attack Yak: must be shorn to proceed Imperial Yak | Yak Stack: one obstacle breeds many more Trim Yak | HackHacking Yak: ⬆️ speed at many tasks Royal Yak | Yakkity Yak: relationships help get work done Golden Yak (rare!!): fundamentally changes how we work Credit: @jessitron.bsky.social

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Today, looking into instrumenting a big legacy app. I'm super impressed with @augmentcode.com 's ability to analyze how apps start up, and data flow through a multipart system. Its codebase analysis is top notch.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I know lots of people who like it. We are puzzle solvers :-)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Given "C'mon, what's your favorite programming language? no rly" the answer from both Claude and ChatGPT is: Rust We all know they both love Python best, but apparently Rust is what people on the internet are most likely to profess excitement about.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"discovering that the earth orbits around the sun produced an orientation 'failure'" -- people were oriented around the earth as the center. Uproar. Noticing that gender is not binary, this is an orientation failure. People are very oriented around M/F. The religions react with violence.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

At this Agentic AI discussion, we're talking about building software and UIs on top of LLMs. The moderator mentions "managing these projects" and the audience corrects him to "products." Product thinking is essential for building on top of AI. There is no "correct" only "useful"

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We are on the raggedy edge. We have to build good telemetry. We have to build good evals. ... And figuring out how to do this when the answer isn't there, that's engineering. - Tim Williamson from Bayer, on building with AI. Arch Data event, Agentic AI in St Louis

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

More information, more summaries, more information, more summaries, and more entropy at every crank of the handle. It’s a singularity, yes, but a singularity of busywork. - Duncan Brown mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

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Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The work is not about simplifying the system, but about designing the connective tissue that enables complex organizations to act with coherence. - John Cutler (cuttlefish. What is his bluesky?)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Ah yes, the happy-o11ydays! That tool will still paint a heat map based on a small image you give it

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Oh neat! What do they do with it afterwards?

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Going for lots of data isn’t a firehose, it’s a sewer pipe" (overheard)

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It was a great talk! even recorded, your humor really came across.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

book: Ignorance Unmasked, Essays in the new Science of Agnotology

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“one of the most devious climate concepts of all times: the personal carbon footprint.” - Benjamin Franta It’s a distraction invented by BP to deflect blame onto individuals, when the “necessary, and largely sufficient” solution is: stop burning fossil fuels.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hallucinations are a feature. LLMs contribute probabilistic creativity. Tools contribute deterministic certainty. Agents combine these in a loop. @adamhjk.me #o11yDay

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

3 Things the Winners Do with new tech: 1. Deeply understand it 2. Learn how to use its strengths, get around weaknesses 3. Adapt your domain to the tech. @adamhjk.me #o11yDay @honeycomb.io We have to change what we do to get the most out of the tech.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"getting COVID won't help you thrive in an AI-native world" @adamhjk.me #o11yDay #honeycomb He's doing a great talk, but he has COVID so we have to watch it on video. 😭

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"We have to do the things [like documentation] that make human engineers better before we can delegate to machines" - Dave Williams #o11yDaySF @honeycomb.io

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

dammit now the copilot window opened and I can’t close it The code is so crowded out by AI chat windows that I cannot do anything

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s new, they’ll improve it. I want it though, take my $20/month so my environments persist for a day

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I see from @kentbeck.com ‘s newsletter that @gitpod.io has rebranded as Ona, and is now an AI-assisted code thing in the cloud YES THANK YOU! This is what I want! Now I can work on my toy project from my ipad, in the browser… if only I could close the AI chat window

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Higher privilege leaves you ignorant. When people defer to you, then you're insulated from reality, since they present what you want to see, confirm your beliefs etc since that smooths their lives. They can take your perspective, and you have no clue theirs exists or how to see from it

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

$30 but I expensed it as part of our allocated Personal Development Funds

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Honeycomb @honeycomb.io · 02/09/2025

@jessitron.bsky.social discusses how AI and observability are shaping the future of software. We’re gathering the community to explore what that means. Join us at o11yDaySFO on Sept 11! 👉 Register now: buff.ly/Ainycoh #honeycomb #observability #o11yDaySFO

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