What Charity Majors thinks about AI agents

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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1. 12 Aug 2026

   Our readingThere is no human in the loop: you own the loop, and what comes out of it is your work rather than the model's.

   Their wordsAnother another thing we point out is just there is no human in the loop. You own the loop. The loop is yours. The loop is mine. It would not exist if it was not for me. So I am the owner, right?

   ↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording