Reposted by Corey QuinnAlly Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 01/09/2026Fun read from @quinnypig.com to start the day with. shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...shitposting.aiThe elementary school pickup incident and the road aheadFindings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur. 154
Reposted by Corey QuinnMiguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 29/08/2026By @quinnypig.com shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...shitposting.aiThe elementary school pickup incident and the road aheadFindings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur. 1369
Reposted by Corey Quinnmargaretvaltie.bsky.social @margaretvaltie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026AWS Midwest Community Day is on! Keynote from @quinnypig.com got us kicked off 🎉 #awscommunity #mwcd26 0121
Reposted by Corey QuinnAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085402316196
Reposted by Corey QuinnDavid Yanacek @dyanacek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Check out @quinnypig.com's conversation with me on "The Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent" on @lastweekinaws.com! We talk #AWS history, #DevOps at @awscloud, and how we've encoded that into AWS DevOps Agent. All with Corey's quick wit. www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...lastweekinaws.comThe Rise of Autonomous Ops: Inside AWS’s DevOps Agent with David Yanacek 081
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 19/05/2026Me talking to my team after a vendor sales pitch makes me overcommit 0100
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 12/05/2026If I were doing @lastweekinaws.com today, what would I change? Introducing ArtificialConfidence.com, for the AI era.artificialconfidence.comArtificial Confidence | Corey Quinn | SubstackWhat changed in AI this week, adjusted for spin. Click to read Artificial Confidence, by Corey Quinn, a Substack publication. Launched a few seconds ago. 3242
Reposted by Corey QuinnJuha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 12/05/2026humorphism.com As @quinnypig.com says: "Only AWS could launch something called Humorphism that is in no way funny."humorphism.comHumorphism — The Human InterfaceFrom skeuomorphism to humorphism: dismantling the user interface and building the human interface. 1172
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 06/05/2026What cloud provider would I build on today? For serious stuff, AWS -- not because it's best, but because knowing how a system breaks is worth more than knowing how it works. Principle of least surprise. duckbillhq.com 1303
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 05/05/2026As someone who’s both American and European neither my brain nor my electrical appliances work properly. 0252
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 05/05/2026I suppose someone has to give systemd’s unpopularity a run for its money. 1430
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 04/05/2026The worst AWS service isn't public. It's Isengard -- the internal tool that means Amazon's engineers never have to manage AWS the way customers do. If they had to live that pain, it'd get fixed. Open source it or stop using it. duckbillhq.com 6346
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 02/05/2026The buy it now price is way too high, but their bid might get lucky. 4422
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 01/05/2026Built an agentic EA to handle vendor pitch emails. Technically professional. HR couldn't fire someone for these responses but they'd be having some very uncomfortable conversations. Never felt more alive. 1210
Reposted by Corey QuinnRachel Stephens @rstephens.me · 30/04/2026as someone who has battled with the model to try to get it to stop saying 'goblins' I feel somewhat vindicated reading this also... cc/ @quinnypig.com 0103
Reposted by Corey QuinnLindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Very good stuff from @quinnypig.com www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/a...theregister.comAWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard: Eleven up, ten down 041
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 29/04/2026If your website has a chatbot because your website isn't doing its job, that's a website problem. AI support works when it routes to a human fast. Most deployments are a gauntlet instead. duckbillhq.com 1251
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 28/04/2026Americans lost less than a 100th of a percent of Amazon’s market cap to scams last year. 1232
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 27/04/2026Vercel: $10B company, built entirely on AWS, 20-30% markup. Hyperscalers are becoming power grids. Everything depends on them but that's not where the interesting stuff is. Unlike PG&E, AWS still wants credit for what its customers build. duckbillhq.com 2100
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 25/04/2026I bet it went super well since they’re releasing this on Friday evening. 3487
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 24/04/2026The thing that frustrates me most about cloud isn't the pricing. It's that we've forgotten how hard this is. Easy became the assumption. That assumption is where expensive surprises live. duckbillhq.com 1234
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 22/04/2026"Cloud is too expensive, let's build a data center." If your engineering team hears this and doesn't immediately look ill, they haven't done this before. An AZ is a data center. You're not simplifying. duckbillhq.com 4407
Reposted by Corey Quinnbusiness goose🪿 @goose.art · 18/04/2026the real potential of atproto is to let you sync your watched shows across all streaming sites so they dont keep recommending you the same stuff 6483
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 15/04/2026It's still free (pay if you want it to be nice to you, or for some reason meaner), but now it supports GitLab too. And also macOS 10.13. DeployBar.app awaits you.deploybar.appDeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.A free macOS menu bar app that monitors your deploys. Includes Billie the Platypus, who has opinions about your branch names. 390
Reposted by Corey Quinnbusiness goose🪿 @goose.art · 13/04/2026most insane payment structure i've ever seen. the app is mean to you unless you pay them. 1333252
Reposted by Corey QuinnMary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I’m learning today that a LOT of people don’t know who Corey is! 4111
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 13/04/2026DeployBar is on the Mac App Store. Free CI monitoring with a platypus that judges your branch names. deploybar.appdeploybar.appDeployBar — Free CI monitoring. Unsolicited platypus included.A free macOS menu bar app that monitors your deploys. Includes Billie the Platypus, who has opinions about your branch names. 6656
Reposted by Corey Quinndbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 13/04/2026I gotta say. @quinnypig.com ‘s last week in AWS newsletter is still years later one of my most useful subscriptions I mean, it gave me me another “possible failure that can keep me up at night” story today but I still would rather know. 0212
Reposted by Corey QuinnJustin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 01/04/2026A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge... 1321548
Reposted by Corey QuinnMarko Bevc @marko.social · 07/04/2026Nice one and gives you proper FS interface - they didn't slap some half solution on top of S3 and it's actually syncing S3 <-> NFS and both work as expected. Also read on costs, especially if you access a lot of small files. More on the topic by @quinnypig.com : www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-is-n...lastweekinaws.comS3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There's One In Front of It)I've been saying "S3 is not a filesystem" for over a decade. I've said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the 1165
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 03/04/2026I’m nostalgic for the days when the grift was behind closed doors. 36412
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 02/04/2026At this point I’m wondering what Delve did that *was* ethical. 0193
Reposted by Corey QuinnIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this 18177512018
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 30/03/2026I do not give a toot what the cause is; for 30% of gross sales Apple can figure it the hell out. 2815
Reposted by Corey QuinnChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Recently a friend got on some new meds that made them much more chilled out, but to the point that they're procrastinating tedious and boring (but important) tasks, and it made me think about how much of my productivity is just white hot free-floating anxiety. 1120413
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 25/03/2026This is what happens when you surround yourself with an echo chamber of yes men who don’t push back. Constant reversals. 1292
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 20/03/2026Google is running a “small” experiment in being a colossal piece of corporate shit. 27919
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 19/03/2026This the same company that's still refusing to accept Apple Pay / tap to pay? 2260
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 18/03/2026Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Three-year commitment seemed smart in 2022? Spot instances dying at bad times? Someone said "just use Graviton"? Ask away.duckbillhq.comOffice hoursDuckbill office hours You have questions. We have coffee. Meet our team and get personalized advice on your most pressing cloud cost 040
Reposted by Corey QuinnMatt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026In which irrepressible AWS gadfly @quinnypig.com takes on the latest AWS complaint - the end of standard support for PostGreSQL13 in RDS - and blames bureaucracy, not conspiracy. www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/a...theregister.comAWS spurs Catch-22, ending PostgreSQL 13 support for RDS: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart 1224
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 17/03/2026Thursday Office Hours, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Your vendor's cost optimization tool recommendations would break production. Your bill has mystery services you never enabled. Your team's experiment is now a permanent five-figure charge. I have thoughts.duckbillhq.comOffice hoursDuckbill office hours You have questions. We have coffee. Meet our team and get personalized advice on your most pressing cloud cost 081
Reposted by Corey QuinnCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 27/09/2025They used to be called “jumpolines” until your mom got on one in the 70s. 715113