Alex Palcuie
@palcu.net
Member of Technical Staff at @Anthropic.com. Prev Staff SRE @ Google (GCP/GCE) and FDE @ Palantir. Big Matt Levine and Scott Alexander fan. Tweets are meta-post-irony. London.
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· Apr 9
Anthropic debuts Claude's Max plan, with 5x the usage limits of Pro for $100/month or 20x the usage for $200/month, plus early access to new models and features (Hayden Field/CNBC)
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i’m happy to share that, as of last week, i’ve joined
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
claude code anonymous here in london
learnt during group therapy that Claude says “you’re absolutely right” to everybody, not just me
learnt during group therapy that Claude says “you’re absolutely right” to everybody, not just me
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
claude code anonymous here in london
learnt during group therapy that Claude says “you’re absolutely right” to everybody, not just me
learnt during group therapy that Claude says “you’re absolutely right” to everybody, not just me
I asked Claude Opus 4.1 before the public launch to comment about its future reliability:
> I am dropping with 99.99% uptime aspirations and 100% commitment to gracefully handling your edge cases. My error messages now come with explanatory haikus.
bless its weights
> I am dropping with 99.99% uptime aspirations and 100% commitment to gracefully handling your edge cases. My error messages now come with explanatory haikus.
bless its weights
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost (Anthropic)
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August 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I asked Claude Opus 4.1 before the public launch to comment about its future reliability:
> I am dropping with 99.99% uptime aspirations and 100% commitment to gracefully handling your edge cases. My error messages now come with explanatory haikus.
bless its weights
> I am dropping with 99.99% uptime aspirations and 100% commitment to gracefully handling your edge cases. My error messages now come with explanatory haikus.
bless its weights
my old workplace at Google/GCP had some downtime issues, and my current employer Anthropic/Claude experienced an outage too
everything I touch seems to blow up
everything I touch seems to blow up
June 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
my old workplace at Google/GCP had some downtime issues, and my current employer Anthropic/Claude experienced an outage too
everything I touch seems to blow up
everything I touch seems to blow up
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The nanny state is making everyone use Claude in their editor
May 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The nanny state is making everyone use Claude in their editor
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Oh hey, Carol Vorderman's here.
May 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh hey, Carol Vorderman's here.
as a British person working at an American company whose expense cards are from a company called Brex, being told to "just Brex it" every time I have to submit receipts feels unnecessarily personal
May 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
as a British person working at an American company whose expense cards are from a company called Brex, being told to "just Brex it" every time I have to submit receipts feels unnecessarily personal
first month at anthropic complete
turns out 'working with models' means transformers, not gisele bundchen or david gandy
turns out 'working with models' means transformers, not gisele bundchen or david gandy
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
first month at anthropic complete
turns out 'working with models' means transformers, not gisele bundchen or david gandy
turns out 'working with models' means transformers, not gisele bundchen or david gandy
shot this london marathon video from my neighbourhood
April 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
shot this london marathon video from my neighbourhood
i’m happy to share that, as of last week, i’ve joined
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
Anthropic debuts Claude's Max plan, with 5x the usage limits of Pro for $100/month or 20x the usage for $200/month, plus early access to new models and features (Hayden Field/CNBC)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i’m happy to share that, as of last week, i’ve joined
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
@anthropic.com as a member of technical staff on the reliability engineering team
so far, the vibes have been immaculate. Claude’s reliability and outages are now my problem.
lastly, y’all should check out the new Max plan for Claude
feels weird for a londoner to complain about rain in san francisco, but here we are
March 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
feels weird for a londoner to complain about rain in san francisco, but here we are
after 8 years at google in SRE, this was my last week with the company
i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with
below is my joining hat, my badge and an encased TPU (ML accelerator) i won for landing a project
i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with
below is my joining hat, my badge and an encased TPU (ML accelerator) i won for landing a project
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
after 8 years at google in SRE, this was my last week with the company
i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with
below is my joining hat, my badge and an encased TPU (ML accelerator) i won for landing a project
i am immensely grateful to all the great people i worked with
below is my joining hat, my badge and an encased TPU (ML accelerator) i won for landing a project
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"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"
March 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"
given that vibecoding is kinda expensive, i wonder if YC (or other accelerators) could essentially become gatekeepers by buying LLM token usage in bulk and then "gifting" it only to people who clear an initial screening
March 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
given that vibecoding is kinda expensive, i wonder if YC (or other accelerators) could essentially become gatekeepers by buying LLM token usage in bulk and then "gifting" it only to people who clear an initial screening
Rupert Lowe leaves and makes a new party, dog man and the LFG movement join, Dom Cummings is the mastermind and chief of staff, Elon bankrolls the whole thing, and they get Liz Truss as shadow chancellor
i think there is something for everyone, radical centrism
i think there is something for everyone, radical centrism
March 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Rupert Lowe leaves and makes a new party, dog man and the LFG movement join, Dom Cummings is the mastermind and chief of staff, Elon bankrolls the whole thing, and they get Liz Truss as shadow chancellor
i think there is something for everyone, radical centrism
i think there is something for everyone, radical centrism
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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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LinkedIn still desperately needs a "yikes" reaction.
January 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
LinkedIn still desperately needs a "yikes" reaction.
#HugOps to my friends and colleagues at Meta dealing with the outage
I suggest you use this moment as leverage to ask for more headcount in 2025
I suggest you use this moment as leverage to ask for more headcount in 2025
December 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM
#HugOps to my friends and colleagues at Meta dealing with the outage
I suggest you use this moment as leverage to ask for more headcount in 2025
I suggest you use this moment as leverage to ask for more headcount in 2025
Google Cloud SRE is celebrating Black Friday in London by having the dashboard from our Shopify friends.
Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!
Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Google Cloud SRE is celebrating Black Friday in London by having the dashboard from our Shopify friends.
Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!
Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!
Reposted by Alex Palcuie
According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo
November 25, 2024 at 10:29 PM
According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo
got 20+ people in an SRE and SRE-adjacent starter pack
if people want to be added, or you know other folks who could be there, reply to this thread
bsky.app/starter-pack...
if people want to be added, or you know other folks who could be there, reply to this thread
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 23, 2024 at 2:46 PM
got 20+ people in an SRE and SRE-adjacent starter pack
if people want to be added, or you know other folks who could be there, reply to this thread
bsky.app/starter-pack...
if people want to be added, or you know other folks who could be there, reply to this thread
bsky.app/starter-pack...
is anyone going to make an SRE starter pack please?
November 17, 2024 at 10:29 PM
is anyone going to make an SRE starter pack please?
not sure if this is the right social network, but I was pretty impressed with the views from the 30th floor of the Google Warsaw office on my last business trip
November 16, 2024 at 10:43 PM
not sure if this is the right social network, but I was pretty impressed with the views from the 30th floor of the Google Warsaw office on my last business trip
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Welcome @monevator.bsky.social to Blue Sky - good to see you on here - there has been a paucity of #investing & #fire types so far
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Welcome @monevator.bsky.social to Blue Sky - good to see you on here - there has been a paucity of #investing & #fire types so far