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Dispatches from O'Reilly: The accidental orchestrator
Experiments in agentic engineering and AI-driven development.
Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks
Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage.
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
With much of a software engineer’s time moving from writing code to structuring prompts and reviewing code, the workday is getting denser and more intense. Can AI solve the problems it's causing?
Pack your agentic stack in Slack
Ryan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate everybody’s agents in their chat application.
“You can't vibe code scale”: What the AI hype gets wrong about software engineering
Because someone still has to own the consequences of what gets built and whether it can function at scale.
Your fridge could be a threat to national security
On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat Report that tracks over 281 adversaries across nation states, e-crime, and hacktivist organizations.
Interesting questions
What is the origin of the minced oath “Jiminy”?
If it's any consolation, the source may be a constellation.
Why does it seem to be the prerogative of western philosophical thought to solve contradictions?
"We live under Aristotle’s spell."
Should I be honest about Whistleblowing at company X in my interviews for Company Y or Z?
Honesty may be a liability for some businesses.
What to do if a former supervisor with whom I am writing a paper, stops answering for almost a year?
There are other communication methods besides email, you know.
Links from around the web
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting
As the kids say…go touch some grass.
The Virtual OS Museum
It’s Manchester, Baby!
Everything in C is undefined behavior
As Mufasa once said to his junior dev son, Simba, “Everything the C light touches is undefined behavior.”
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
Might be a good time for the Japanese language to have a direct translation for, “Bless you.”
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