We will see within our lifetime the rise of young supergeniuses that far surpass previous generations in both intellect and demonstrable accomplishme… - Guillermo Rauch

Increasing convinced observability and monitoring as it exists today will soon cease to exist. Two counter trends: autonomous infrastructure & AI.

Humans staring at plots and charts to derive very obvious patterns like why your API is 500ing is NGMI.

On one hand we have infra that scales automatically and self-heals. A lot of our customers simply don’t set up expensive o11y appliances. Prices will go down to approach the cost of data storage. On the other hand, we have the fact that people don’t want o11y, they want solutions.

They want pull requests with fixes, they want automatic rollbacks, they want automatic fail over of vendors (see: AI Gateway).

Small things make a big difference

Happiness and productivity are two sides of the same coin. We’re at our best when our work creates value for others and we get rewarded. This is why socialism, communism, and any kind of unearned welfare inevitably lead to misery and the end of civilization.