In other news, this is a business expense. Not too late to register, if you haven't yet. events.honeycomb.io/o11ydaySF
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Now it is too late to register, ahahahaha. We sold out. But, just for you all on bluesky, here's the penultimate slide ft @tomscott.com
![Tom Scott standing on a windswept field in Holland with captions saying: I am kinda surprised to be endorsing [Artificial Intelligence] this enthusiastically, and saying](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i4tfenpfog244rxry5uz4vtk/bafkreihtxinkdrn3jp4y6eguu4vsqe43fnbsc4iljj7q6pokzda46rwywa@jpeg)
sep 10, 2025, 12:32 am • 12 1 • view
I don’t know what this is but feel as if I’ve known it all my life.
sep 10, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
Tom Scott for years refused to do ad reads for VPNs because they wanted him to say technically false things. And he didn't want to risk his credibility. It went so far as him pulling the plug on an honest VPN ad video right before it aired because the VPN wouldn't let him. youtu.be/WVDQEoe6ZWY?...
sep 10, 2025, 12:52 am • 1 0 • view
But he eventually did the VPN ad read after he found a provider willing to let him be honest and himself about what he didn't and didn't find value in.
sep 10, 2025, 12:53 am • 1 0 • view
Final slides for the #o11yDaySFO keynote talk I gave: drive.google.com/file/d/13Uu-...
sep 12, 2025, 7:17 am • 10 3 • view
on the train ride home, i realized we can extend your restaurant analogies a bit further: a significant factor in getting a michelin star(s) is consistency. making great dinner once is great, but the expectation is that every dinner would be great. this is where ai still lacks: /1
sep 12, 2025, 7:01 pm • 3 1 • view
not only it's almost random which dishes the ai would turn out great and which wouldn't, we lack the tools we need to replicate great dinners. one of the most important tool in a kitchen is a thermometer, and i don't know what the ai equivalent for it is. 2/2
sep 12, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Thinking some more, no analogy needed: vibe or AI-assisted coding can replace most of programming right now, but can't replace software engineering (yet?)
sep 12, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
It moves the bottleneck from writing the code to designing and debugging.
sep 12, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol
sep 12, 2025, 8:01 pm • 1 0 • view
The thermometer is o11y :)
sep 12, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
A cooking thermometer tells you what happens (like o11y), but is used differently: it creates an automated feedback loop on when to pull the melted chocolate off the heat.
sep 12, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup. The "60% of the dinners are burnt in the microwave but we just cook twice as many" thing from the other viral AI metaphor does land there...
sep 12, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Won’t fly in a restaurant: with the thin margins in the food business, you can’t afford waste. Yesterday’s unused produce is today’s stock.
sep 12, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. (Trust you've seen it?) www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
sep 12, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Not until now
sep 12, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
cool slides, im sure it would have been fun to see the talk in person!
sep 12, 2025, 7:25 am • 1 0 • view
yup, attendees had a riot! and for the keynotes for the day, we might be publishing them online, stay tuned. the panels though, you had to be there :)
sep 12, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Love those slides and the concept.
sep 12, 2025, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
At least chocolate is deterministic.
sep 9, 2025, 6:17 am • 0 0 • view
Have you ever tried making a chocolate soufflé?
sep 9, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Skill issue
sep 9, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
ok but so's a lot of AI use as well. shit inputs, shit outputs.
sep 9, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol true. I do actually agree with you on most points. I'm just a bit of a greybeard at this point and I genuinely do have a problem with the non-deterministic nature of these tools. My lizard brain keeps interpreting it as a bug, because before right now, it was. To be clear it's a me problem.
sep 9, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 0 • view