Galo Navarro

@varoa.net

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Builds infrastructure and automation for AI workloads, Principal Eng @Midokura. Long form at http://varoa.net

A screenshot with this text: "The pipeline had degraded to the point of collapse. On the surface, the problem was that it converged on a choke point that was easy to saturate and hard to scale. But the real issue wasn’t having a bottleneck. It was pretending that there wasn’t one, treating back-pressure signals as a nuisance, and letting an AI-induced productivity anxiety run unchecked."
Screenshot of a tool to visualize pmap outputs.
Screenshot from the linked article. The text reads: "Everyone is focused on the impact of AI on the production of code. But code isn’t just produced, it has to be consumed: built, packaged, tested, distributed, deployed, operated. Leveraging AI to amplify the supply of code will grow already complex systems and accelerate the pace of change. Without a realistic plan to scale delivery pipelines, we’re asking for trouble."
Screenshot of this quote in Simon Willinson's weblog: " Today's software ecosystem evolved around a central assumption that code is expensive, so it makes sense to centrally develop and then distribute at low marginal cost. If code becomes 100x cheaper, the choices no longer make sense! Build-buy tradeoffs often flip. The idea of an "app"—a hermetically sealed bundle of functionality built by a team trying to anticipate your needs—will no longer be as relevant. We'll want looser clusters, amenable to change at the edges. Everyone owns their tools, rather than all of us renting cloned ones."
Screenshot of the article
Screenshot with a definition of AI Agents from Chip Huyen, explaining how they perceive environments, act using tools, and how their tools and environments are interconnected.
Screenshot from the pragmatic engineer pulse #108 showing Amazons reduction in engineering managers by 15%