You might enjoy this podcast episode. Sylvain and I talked about owning production in a world where AI writes the code.
Also on spotify and apple podcasts. Pretty neat, I've never been on Spotify before :D
Key topics:
- Why users don’t buy code, they buy reliable services
- The “Feynman computer disease” and AI coding rabbit holes
- Why babysitting AI agents can kill productivity
- The subtle art of writing useful logs
- Debugging distributed systems and redirect loops in production
- Benchmarks for AI SRE agents vs real-world reliability work
- Accountability in engineering (“sign it with your phone number”)
- Why SLAs matter more than how the code was produced
- The future of engineering in a probabilistic, AI-assisted world
Because building a SaaS is easy (always was). But running a SaaS is hard. Owning production is a lot more than writing code and throwing it over the wall.
Cheers,
~Swizec
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