AI and human skill 2
- If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own.
- The alternative to burning tokens is a zero-token architecture: learn the thing, think for yourself, and finish the task.
Kelsey Hightower
Self-taught software engineer, formerly a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud and one of the most visible voices in the Kubernetes community; retired from full-time work in 2023 and now advises and invests.
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AI and jobs 2
- Software developers spent thirty years automating other people's industries away, so they should not expect sympathy now that it is their turn.
- Developers who defined the job as being the only person who could write code have just watched the only thing they were good at get commoditised.
design 2
- Seven API calls to get a virtual machine was never an intention, it was a procedure — most of our APIs were designed wrong even for humans.
- MCP is not a new foundation for anything — it is API design, and Kubernetes was already turning one intention into seven calls a decade ago.
infrastructure 2
- The real shift Kubernetes made was from infrastructure as code to infrastructure as data: you declare the object and control loops reconcile it, instead of running a program.
- What makes Kubernetes powerful is that it gave infrastructure a type system, and types are what finally made automating infrastructure safe.
startups 2
- Entrepreneurship is over-glorified: a parts-and-service business has none of the upside people imagine, because it does not grow the way a software company does.
- Ban the word AI from a pitch and the founder is forced to show you the actual problem — the word is an umbrella people hide the details under.