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It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us

October 30, 2026 · 27 min

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Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specifications to accommodate the rapid influx of AI-generated code, and navigating the complex ethical boundaries between system observability and human surveillance in modern technology ecosystems.

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Honeycomb is an observability platform that empowers engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and understand the behavior of their complex cloud systems. 

Connect with Charity on her blog at charity.wtf and read her team's posts on AI norms and values on the Honeycomb blog.

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