Rob Whelan @jtheory

robw on 🦋. Sr Eng Mgr @ grafana; AI/ML. Tweets my own. He/him. robwhelan.com Central France Joined December 2008

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Go Time ⏰ @GoTimeFM

11 months ago

🙌 New episode of Go Time! 💚 #AI for #Observability 😎 with @yasirekinci from @grafana 🎙 hosts @jboursiquot & @matryer 🎧 gotime.fm/335

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Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong

11 months ago

my cofounder presented a study that showed teenagers learn better if they can sleep in a little more, and the school came back with “well we can’t adjust it now, we have a contract with the bus drivers” oh, so the school is for the benefit of the bus drivers?? much like the…

Lomez @L0m3z

11 months ago

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Grafana @grafana

12 months ago

The Observability Survey is back for its third year, and we want to hear from you! Share your thoughts on the state of observability today — it only takes five minutes and all responses will be kept anonymous. grafana.com/blog/2024/09/1…

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

12 months ago

Dear managers: Raising productivity is not about monitoring people. It's about motivating them. 94 studies: Surveillance fails to improve performance—and increases stress, distrust, and dissatisfaction. Tracking people is not a substitute for respecting and valuing them.

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Sarah Mergen @nekyias

a year ago

“at least I can write about this, at least I can help people with this, at least I am uniquely in a position to make the world a better place for this” has saved me innumerable times

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Patrick McKenzie @patio11

a year ago

I expect my grandchildren to relate to respiratory illnesses like I relate to scurvy: “Wow, the past was *awful* and there is a historically contingent reason why it stayed that awful long after the tech tree would have supported eliminating this problem.”

Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel

a year ago

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@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause

a year ago

@mipsytipsy I can’t hear a reference to Schmidt without thinking of this: surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/08/28/con…

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Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard_

a year ago

Pro-tip: if you’re a grown man, you should know what needs to be done around your own house that you also live in.

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👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige

a year ago

👋 Inspired by recent conversations with friends, and based on a long history of automating away every job I've ever had (from data processing to PM work): Am sharing a few ways that I'm using Gemini 1.5 and 2M+ tokens of context in @googleaistudio to automate the boring parts…

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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

a year ago

A decade ago I felt like I could find anything on the Web. Now I feel like I can barely find anything. People just don't put information on web pages anymore.

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Kelly Sommers @kellabyte

a year ago

Premature abstraction is WAY more prevalent and worse than premature optimization and really handcuffs code bases for years and years.

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Rob Whelan @jtheory

a year ago

I'm oddly proud that my team did NOT build this. The team that did (Pyroscope / Profiles) didn't even *tell us* they were using the OSS Grafana LLM plugin we built — they just found it & used it; no notes.

Grafana @grafana

a year ago

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Rob Whelan @jtheory

a year ago

If we can first assume there's only one person coding in the world, on one project, then we can *finally* get some definitive answers to these debates.

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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv

a year ago

one of the most tedious assumptions i routinely encounter– which is still sort of surprising to me internally– is the assumption that some individual's existing configuration is going to remain constant, and that they are not capable of change or growth