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1. Cory Dransfeldt Mastodon 5 min later

   @zachleat That just means you have to automate the steps to fix the automation

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 5 min later

      @cory this is Senior Engineer thinking

      1. Cory Dransfeldt Mastodon 7 min later

         @zachleat That second layer of automation never fails

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 9 min later

            @cory the pagerduty for that layer goes to someone not in my immediate org, so that’s fine

            1. Cory Dransfeldt Mastodon 11 min later

               @zachleat The third layer automation is an email to the SRE that asks them to run sudo reboot

      2. Eric McCormick Mastodon 4 hr later

         @zachleat @cory unless you give an LLM access to creds to auto fix it for you. Then it qualifies not as automation but a sparkling vibe code mistake.

         1. Cory Dransfeldt Mastodon 4 hr later

            @edm00se @zachleat We’ve gone straight from hug ops to torture ops

2. Eric Portis Bluesky 7 min later

   I've automated it so my entire day feels like turning cranks on unlabelled, spring-loaded jack-in-the boxes which sometimes punch me in the face

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 8 min later

      I have always considered myself a musical person and chin music is just an extension of that

3. Graham Cummins Bluesky 59 min later

   www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      oh no

4. Jim Nielsen Bluesky 1 hr later

   I laughed — but then I cried.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      can you save your tears for me I’m trying to automate my emotions

      1. Eric Portis Bluesky 3 hr later

         Take this www.w3.org/TR/emotionml/

5. Spacepickle Bluesky 21 hr later

   The Farmer Has Been Replaced in a nutshell

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 21 hr later

      oh fascinating, hadn’t heard of that game

      1. Spacepickle Bluesky 21 hr later

         Would highly recommend