AI & ML

The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale

I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked, and utterly ineffective. Here's what I learned fr…

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

Alibaba's 'Correct but Empty' Response to a 75,000-Word Employee Letter

The Event On June 4, 2026, a former DingTalk product manager named Teng Yaxin published a 75,000-character letter on Alibaba's internal forum titled "…

How We Handled Our First Major Outage (And Survived)

Three years ago we had our first real outage. Six hours of downtime. Thousands of angry users. Multiple executives on the call. Here's what we did rig…

Two Doors Into the Same Room

The Destruction Side: Phrack Magazine Phrack is a self‑published hacker zine founded in 1985, distributed via dial‑up bulletin board systems (BBS) rat…

Let's stop using flags as down-vote

From: https://lobste.rs/about Please don't use flagging to try to push down topics or people you don't like; click "hide" on the story and move on rat…

Building Trust with Product Teams as an SRE

SRE teams that fight with product teams don't get things done. SRE teams that get along with product teams get surprising amounts of reliability work …

The Cost of AI

Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering

Startups hand out senior titles like candy. The industry pays the price. I have been doing interviews for about a year now, and I cannot escape this p…

Why I am against GenAI and everything it stands for

Reading Log #9 — Aoashi The Tacit Dimension Thinking, Fast and Slow

Putting everything into words isn't honesty. Pride and awe dwell in the realm that can't be told. 1. The dimension of verbalization is different In Ao…

When Vulnerability Becomes Machine-Readable

There is a particular kind of person who treats vulnerability like exposed infrastructure. Not empathy. Not understanding. Not even cruelty in the tra…

The Perimeter Economy

Across the technology sector, disputes involving trade secrets, employee mobility, proprietary tooling, side projects, and independently developed sys…

Beyond Words: The Hidden Messages in Non-Verbal Communication

In the boardroom, your words might seal the deal, but it’s often your body language that opens the door. Research suggests that up to 93% of communica…

My Experience Working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai

I want to share my experience working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University (HBSU), Mumbai. For more than a year, I worked extensively on building and i…

Tech Burnout Isn't a Resilience Problem — It's an Organizational Design Failure

A few days ago, Harsh Tiwari published a piece on Dev.to that's worth your time: What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You) . It …

JTC Office Culture: Why "Kuuki wo Yomu" Is Not Telepathy — A Guide to High-Context Communication and Social Signal Processing

For foreign engineers in Japan, the phrase "Kuuki wo Yomu" (Reading the Air) often feels like unscientific telepathy—an invisible social contract with…

Libera Bot/LLM policy update