Kief Morris
@kief.com
Author of Infrastructure as Code. Principal Cloud Architect at Thoughtworks
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Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
Pardoning people who tried to retroactively rig the 2020 election is a message to those in a position to tamper with the 2026 elections. There will be no consequences for openly breaking the law. No holds barred.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pardoning people who tried to retroactively rig the 2020 election is a message to those in a position to tamper with the 2026 elections. There will be no consequences for openly breaking the law. No holds barred.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Hello, tech support? The engineers you sent are making everything worse.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hello, tech support? The engineers you sent are making everything worse.
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Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
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fuck sake stop saying robots have self awareness.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
fuck sake stop saying robots have self awareness.
Ajay Chankramath talking about platforms and DevOps at #DevopsDays Istanbul
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Ajay Chankramath talking about platforms and DevOps at #DevopsDays Istanbul
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"Many developers are surprised by the changes they have to make to their workflow when they're using AI. For example, <proceeds to describe eXtreme Programming>"
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Many developers are surprised by the changes they have to make to their workflow when they're using AI. For example, <proceeds to describe eXtreme Programming>"
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"You can't not have a framework. Either you use one or you create your own - and yours probably won't be well documented or maintained." @brikis98.bsky.social and @kief.com discuss why infrastructure automation needs standardization, not more custom wrapper scripts.
Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris • 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/405
Yevgeniy…
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October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"You can't not have a framework. Either you use one or you create your own - and yours probably won't be well documented or maintained." @brikis98.bsky.social and @kief.com discuss why infrastructure automation needs standardization, not more custom wrapper scripts.
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A decade of Infrastructure as Code and what’s next.
#GOTOpodcast: @abangser.bsky.social and @kief.com explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems — and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
#GOTOpodcast: @abangser.bsky.social and @kief.com explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems — and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A decade of Infrastructure as Code and what’s next.
#GOTOpodcast: @abangser.bsky.social and @kief.com explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems — and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
#GOTOpodcast: @abangser.bsky.social and @kief.com explore how the field evolved from server configs to complex cloud systems — and what AI, abstraction and platform engineering mean for its future.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.
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I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
martinfowler.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I tried to make sense of "spec-driven development" by looking at 3 tools: Amazon's Kiro, GitHub's spec-kit, and the Tessl Framework
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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🔥 “Agile is dead,” says Dave Thomas.
In our latest #GOTOPodcast, he tells Thoughtworks’ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his Orient–Step–Learn framework.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
In our latest #GOTOPodcast, he tells Thoughtworks’ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his Orient–Step–Learn framework.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🔥 “Agile is dead,” says Dave Thomas.
In our latest #GOTOPodcast, he tells Thoughtworks’ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his Orient–Step–Learn framework.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
In our latest #GOTOPodcast, he tells Thoughtworks’ CTO Sarah Taraporewalla why agile lost its soul & how devs can reclaim simplicity with his Orient–Step–Learn framework.
🎧 Listen now: gotopia.tech/podcast
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Can’t wait till one of these knocks on my door for tweeting about a late night talk show host or whatever
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Can’t wait till one of these knocks on my door for tweeting about a late night talk show host or whatever
Is this like taxi drivers giving stock tips? When the BoE notices we're in a bubble it's already too late ....
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Is this like taxi drivers giving stock tips? When the BoE notices we're in a bubble it's already too late ....
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"That day, not only did the Xerox not write The Great Gatsby—it literally caught fire."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"That day, not only did the Xerox not write The Great Gatsby—it literally caught fire."
Rebecca Parsons, Barry O'Reilly, Gregor Hohpe, and Andrew Harmel-Law talkin' architecture at #GOTO2025 #GOTOCopenhagen
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Rebecca Parsons, Barry O'Reilly, Gregor Hohpe, and Andrew Harmel-Law talkin' architecture at #GOTO2025 #GOTOCopenhagen
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One of the challenges with service templates is that once a team instantiated a service with a template, it’s tedious to feed template updates back to those services. I wonder if anchoring AI agents to a template or reference application could help make that easier? martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
One of the challenges with service templates is that once a team instantiated a service with a template, it’s tedious to feed template updates back to those services. I wonder if anchoring AI agents to a template or reference application could help make that easier? martinfowler.com/articles/exp...
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"we can also see intent in the behaviour of pets, weather, dishwashers, etc etc. So we shouldn’t be too surprised if something that’s designed to statistically reproduce human creativity and reasoning has that effect on many of us to a much greater extent."
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Clever Hans Couldn’t Really Do Arithmetic, and LLMs Don’t Really Understand.
I’ve joked in the past that what really makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast, but there’s a more serious point there about how much of our perception of the ability of …
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September 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"we can also see intent in the behaviour of pets, weather, dishwashers, etc etc. So we shouldn’t be too surprised if something that’s designed to statistically reproduce human creativity and reasoning has that effect on many of us to a much greater extent."
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Curious about AI's real impact on software delivery? Join Birgitta Böckeler as she cuts through the hype, revealing what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next for AI coding assistants.
AI Assistance for Software Teams: The State of Play • Birgitta Böckeler • GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
https://gotocph.com
Birgitta Böckeler - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks…
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September 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Curious about AI's real impact on software delivery? Join Birgitta Böckeler as she cuts through the hype, revealing what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next for AI coding assistants.
Took my 19yo to see Spinal Tap. He enjoyed it, but when I described the music genre as "heavy metal", he corrected me. Apparently it's called "dad rock".
August 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Took my 19yo to see Spinal Tap. He enjoyed it, but when I described the music genre as "heavy metal", he corrected me. Apparently it's called "dad rock".
I'm finding GenAI agents very useful for turbo-charging my yak shaving. I have no doubt my increased productivity will soon be visible in the national GDP statistics.
August 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I'm finding GenAI agents very useful for turbo-charging my yak shaving. I have no doubt my increased productivity will soon be visible in the national GDP statistics.
If typing code was the bottleneck for software delivery, then a magic code-typing box would be awesome.
Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery.
See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.
Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery.
See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.
August 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If typing code was the bottleneck for software delivery, then a magic code-typing box would be awesome.
Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery.
See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.
Typing code is not the bottleneck for software delivery.
See also "software factories" and outsourcing development to low-skilled, low-cost coders.
My take on "AI has killed the job market for entry level developers."
1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.
1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.
August 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My take on "AI has killed the job market for entry level developers."
1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.
1. Grads are having a hard time finding jobs because of the economy, not AI. I had a hard time finding a job when I graduated in the 90's during a recession. It's the same story with every downturn.