Alex Ewerlöf
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Alex Ewerlöf
@alexewerlof.com
Senior Staff Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
MSc Systems Engineering
BSc Hardware Engineering

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Google Antigravity is so new the Gemini extension running in the same window has no clue about it! 🤯
Upon initialization, Antigravity installed all my VS Code extensions, one of which is Gemini Code assist! See the conversation below!!!
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
✋ Do you want to run your own AI with zero programming effort? I've made a completely free and open source product called Local Browser AI for Google Chrome Built-in AI Hackathon.

You can check it out and maybe vote for me, if you feel like it is worth it. devpost.com/software/loc...

#llm #ai #oss
Local Browser AI
An open source privacy-first Chrome and Edge extension to chat with a page locally with the familiar interface of Gemini
devpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Alex Ewerlöf
. @charity.wtf (Honeycomb) interviews @alexewerlof.com(Volvo Cars) on the gap between Google's SRE ideals & reality. Key insight: SLOs are your team's API for pushing back against micromanagement.
Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors • GOTO 2025
This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/395 Alex…
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This didn't age well #gpt5 #openai #samAltman
August 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
How do you assess the quality of a metric? How do you balance the cost measurement against ROI and complexity?

#SLI Compass is a 2D mental model to facilitate evaluation, investment, and evolution of metrics.

Examples and illustrations here: blog.alexewerlof.com/p/sli-compass
SLI Compass: Fidelity and Granulairty
A Mental Model to Assess Existing SLIs and Evaluate New Ones. We discuss 2 dimension: fidelity shows how closely your SLI is measuring the user experience, granularity shows how many parameter are mea...
blog.alexewerlof.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
How do you know it's time to change jobs? What signals do you look for?
August 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Incompetent leaders surround themselves with "yes people" and seek advice from external management consultancies.

#leadership #ceo #cto #upperManagement #truthSeeking #growthMindset
July 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM