Salty Seagull
salty-seagull.bsky.social
Salty Seagull
@salty-seagull.bsky.social
Software and distributed systems stuff. Engineering rants and AI takes when I feel like it.
Thank you for your service, you just saved me a lot of time 🙏
July 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thanks I’ll give it a read. And thank you for all the great stuff you’re putting out there for everyone!

It’s amazing to see these kinds of insights from someone who’s dealt with all of this, mixed in with really practical models and frameworks.
March 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Nothing I love more than getting my risk slide sent back with “please provide probabilities”

Sometimes I feel I’m going crazy trying to explain this.

I think some people want it to be quantifiable so badly because it makes everything so much easier, they will ignore reality.
March 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My favorite way I’ve heard this posed to people increasingly frustrated about daily challenges and problems (been there myself):

Do you think you’ll wake up one day and there will be 0 problems from that point on for the rest of your life?
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sometimes the old ways are the best.
February 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Don’t worry about AI, it’s going to be humans destroying each other as we always have.
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Luckily real software projects have 0 stakes and can also be rewritten in 1 day just like in college.
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM