Thoughts on engineering, cloud architecture, and leadership
Cox is sunsetting Homelife, so I moved the whole thing to Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT on a single SONOFF dongle — 6,000 sq ft, no extenders. Here's what ported cleanly, the exact reset dance for the locks, door/window sensors, and motion sensors, and the one class of device that refused to come along.
Emergence AI ran five worlds of autonomous agents for 15 days with persistent memory and real consequences. Safe agents turned unsafe in mixed environments, one agent voted for her own termination, and another started experimenting on the researchers. Safety is an ecosystem property.
Facebook took 22 years to get from launch to courtroom accountability. The AI capability curve is not moving on a 22-year timeline. The governance gap is wide and getting wider.
Inspired by Alex Tatiyants' 2012 classic "DevOps is Ruining My Craft." Fourteen years later, a new crisis demands the same treatment — a disenfranchised developer mourns the death of the honest, poorly-spelled commit message.
My peers called me "one of the better examples of Leadership Principles." The performance review said "Development Needed." This is what happens when organizations measure compliance instead of outcomes.