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Peter Bell reposted thisPeter Bell reposted thisLooking forward to presenting at this year's #o11ycon which is organized by honeycomb.io I'll be presenting "Scale Brilliance, Not Bottlenecks: Building Platforms for the AI-First World" and sharing some of the most recent findings from DORA. See you there! Register now: https://go.hny.co/477EmlY
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Peter Bell reposted thisTomorrow night in SoMa I'm speaking at DirectorPlus SF, alongside Page Bailey (Google DeepMind), and Charity Majors (Honeycomb). Peter Bell and the Gather.dev crew have pulled together a sharp room of engineering leaders trying to figure out what a software factory actually looks like in the agentic age. My slot: Software Dark Factories in Agentic Worlds. https://lnkd.in/gqdenuBW Agents today run in lit factories: humans on the floor, every step observed, every token re-explored. The dark factory is what happens when the patterns that worked get crystallized into something the agent doesn't have to rediscover at 3am. Less Ralph loop. More structure. More life. I'll talk about what we've learned building toward that — the failure modes, the token math, the security posture when agents stop asking permission. And — we've been quiet for a while. That changes in the next few days. If you're at the event and want early access to what we've been building, find me after the talk.DirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory · LumaDirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory · Luma
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Peter Bell posted thisWow - Honeycomb still has a few tickets left for o11y con next month if you'll be in SF May 20/21st (I'll be there!). The more I build agentic systems (and run systems that agents have built) the clearer it is that I NEED to have richer o11y for both the agentic harness and the production apps. I can't wait to get schooled on the latest good practices. Speakers include Nathen Harvey Charity Majors Corey Quinn Giles Douglas Christine Yen Boris Tane Jody Bailey Nishi Bhonsle Thomas Squeo and many more! From Charity Majors: This year's o11ycon theme is "The Agent Era Gets Real", on May 21st, in downtown SF. No glossy stories about vibe coding, just grimy real talk about agentic workflows and observing agentic behavior in production, and participatory discussion groups all day long. May 20-21 in SF. Link in first comment and email peter at gather dot dev with your LinkedIn profile if you want one of the handful of discount codes Charity shared - I'll do my best!
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Peter Bell reposted thisTomorrow night in SoMa I'm speaking at DirectorPlus SF, alongside Page Bailey (Google DeepMind), and Charity Majors (Honeycomb). Peter Bell and the Gather.dev crew have pulled together a sharp room of engineering leaders trying to figure out what a software factory actually looks like in the agentic age. My slot: Software Dark Factories in Agentic Worlds. https://lnkd.in/gqdenuBW Agents today run in lit factories: humans on the floor, every step observed, every token re-explored. The dark factory is what happens when the patterns that worked get crystallized into something the agent doesn't have to rediscover at 3am. Less Ralph loop. More structure. More life. I'll talk about what we've learned building toward that — the failure modes, the token math, the security posture when agents stop asking permission. And — we've been quiet for a while. That changes in the next few days. If you're at the event and want early access to what we've been building, find me after the talk.DirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory · LumaDirectorPlus (SF): How to Build Your Software Factory · Luma
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Peter Bell shared thisTwo things: - Firstly follow Aaron Levie - I have been enjoying so many of his hot takes both here and on other platforms. He gets it in a way that so many other CEOs don't. He's listening to customers, listening to builders and figuring out how to make agentic a multiplier for his business, not a death knell. - Secondly, this (read his post). Just spoke with a CTO today and I think most companies need swarms of FDEs backed by a small lightweight platform/harness teams to synthesize good patterns and turn point agentic solutions into an agenticOS for every business. I broadly see two hiring patterns (they are caricatures, but not completely wrong) - Ex Palintir, 26 years old, sleeps under desk, works 100 hrs/wk because what could be cooler than coding harnesses? Super smart, completely AI pilled, classic FDE, incredibly capable and transformative - Ex Engineering Manager or Director, back to hands on tech now that doesn't involve looking up obscure bugs on StackOverflow, great at managing people (and agents), the extensive lived experience to connect with people in larger orgs further from tech. Has taken pager duty for long enough to know how to think about resilience and designing for failure. Works 40 hrs and has a life, but kills it in every single minute on the job and comes back refreshed. I think for companies that can afford it, the killer package might be pairs of these folks working together. Two sets of eyes, two very different perspectives, twice the cost but 5x the sustainable value. We'll see. Interesting times!Peter Bell shared thisWe're about to see an onslaught of consulting and IT services firms going big on working with AI platforms to deploy agents in the enterprise. And if you don’t understand why it’s happening, it’s an opportunity to reset your understanding of how the real world works. The real world will need a ton of help actually getting agents going in the enterprise. Companies deal with significant legacy tech stacks they need to modernize, data in tons of fragmented tools, knowledge that isn’t captured or digitized, and change management needed to actually utilize agents effectively. And they have to do all this while still running their business day-to-day, unlike startups, who can generally just design their organizations from the ground up to deploy agents into new workflows designed for them. This is why there is so much opportunity for companies (software or services) to actually deploy agents in specific domains and workflows. This remains a big opportunity for both existing services providers but also tons of new services startups as well. Every new technology wave produces a new era of consulting firms that can deliver on that technology. We're seeing this a ton at Box, both in partnering with new forms of technology consultancies as well as existing systems integrators that are building out all new agentic practice areas to help enterprises work with their unstructured data and agents. These service providers will have the benefit of being able to work across multiple data platforms, as well as see common practices that work or fail within an industry. This knowledge ends up being incredibly valuable right now, especially given how fast things are changing. A corollary to this is also that the forward deployed engineer (FDE) model is going to be alive and well for a long time because companies will want to have their vendor actually help drive the change management and implementation for their new workflows. There’s no shortcut to getting this work done for the enterprise, and the vendors are going to have to do a lot of this or risk low adoption. All of this type of work is going to be in high demand for quite some time, and it's incidentally another example of jobs that aren’t actually going away.
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Peter Bell shared thisIf anyone is in SF May 7th, you really have to sign up for the Heavybit Write only code summit. I'm disappointed I can't make it, but am excited to have some similar conversations in SoMa tomorrow night... (google "luma gather dev" for the link, although I'm taking down registrations this afternoon as we're beyond capacity already) Still need to get Justin McCarthy on the new podcast though . . .Peter Bell shared thisWhat if the SDLC were treated as a capital allocation engine? Justin McCarthy joins Write-Only Code Summit on May 7 to make the case. The premise: spin up digital twins of your customers, run thousands of agent-driven simulations, and place rapid-fire bets before anything ships. Validation at a scale that wasn't possible when every run required a human. Almost sold out 👀 https://lnkd.in/g8bsXRFv
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Peter Bell shared thisCan't wait to see what Jason Warner and the team at Poolside are shipping...Peter Bell shared thisToday Poolside is releasing Laguna M.1 & Laguna XS.2, our latest generation models and first public models We started Poolside because we believed that to build truly capable coding agents, you need to own the full stack: data, training, reinforcement learning, inference. These models are the first result of that work, and we’re making them available to everyone Laguna XS.2 is open-weight under Apache 2.0 and runs on a single GPU We believe the West needs strong open-weight models. We want developers and researchers to be able to run this one, build on it, and push it further than we can on our own Laguna M.1 is our most capable model to date We believe software is the interface through which intelligence becomes useful, and the pathway to true intelligence Until today we've focused on building the full stack by shipping models, the Poolside platform, and our applications to very large enterprise customers, on-prem installations, air-grapped environments, and generally focused on very secure or highly restrictive customers Now we are opening everything up to the world and we want to hear from the community: what works, what doesn’t, what you’re building with these models, and where you'd like to see us help more in the future This is just a step, but it's our first generally available step, and we intend to keep shipping publicly, and shipping more open weights More here: Blog: https://lnkd.in/gmE8hndk Get the weights here: Hugging Face: https://lnkd.in/gXfHRM87 Try them here: pool: https://lnkd.in/gTsSguxS Shimmer: https://shimmer.run API: https://lnkd.in/gQPv2n67 OpenRouter: https://lnkd.in/gfZn4NtR Baseten: https://lnkd.in/gubbEgHe Ollama: https://lnkd.in/g6BAJe9w
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Peter Bell shared thisSo Jeff Smith is one of my favorite thinkers in the AI space - been doing interesting things for a very long time and now focused on how AI could impact software engineering. Can't wait to catch this video on my flight to SF tomorrow - check it out!Peter Bell shared thisStarting a new video series. First episode is about the strangest job in tech. Full episode in the comments.
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Peter Bell shared thisHuge fan of both Randy Shoup and Craft Conference - unfortunately I can't make it to Budapest this year to catch the lineup, but if you can, you should - I hear nothing but wonderful things!Peter Bell shared this🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome distributed systems veteran: Randy Shoup at Craft Conference 2026! With 30+ years at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix, Randy knows exactly what makes complex systems tick. He's here to bust the myth that AI will make traditional software components obsolete - arguing instead that abstraction and modularity are more valuable than ever. Currently SVP of Engineering at Thrive Market, he’s joining us in Budapest to share his practical framework for navigating the shifting economics of SaaS and OSS in an AI-first world. 🎫 Get your ticket now: https://lnkd.in/diAUtjKm
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Chris Treadaway Just to ask those perfectionists, do they have any other non-deterministic systems (say humans) that hit the threshold of perfection in every single commit?
If so, please ask him to share their resumes :)
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Dominic Tancredi Honestly it seems a reasonable summary of possible future state and sane next step however it was envisioned or created.
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Peter Bell liked thisPeter Bell liked thisLooking forward to presenting at this year's #o11ycon which is organized by honeycomb.io I'll be presenting "Scale Brilliance, Not Bottlenecks: Building Platforms for the AI-First World" and sharing some of the most recent findings from DORA. See you there! Register now: https://go.hny.co/477EmlY
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Peter Bell liked thisPeter Bell liked thisAI is moving faster than most companies can adapt. The AI Conference is for engineers, founders, and executives who want more than talk. They want an advantage. This is not a beginner event. It is a working room for serious operators. Super Early Bird tickets are now available at $775 before the price increases. If AI affects your product, your role, or your revenue, you should be at this conference.
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Peter Bell liked thisPeter Bell liked thisWhy “Third Loop”? In episode 3, the Progressive Delivery team explains how DevOps solved part of the problem, but left users out of the loop. They explore how software has expanded beyond technical audiences and why adoption, not deployment, is the real measure of success. Tune in! https://hubs.ly/Q04cgHYk0
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