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Dave Beckett @dajobe

Husband in SF. 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺 Fan of Lego. Prod Engineer @crusoeai. Past: @Google @Twitter 1.0. dajobe.org He/Him threads: dajobegram

Joined November 2006
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Dave Beckett@dajobe
17 Dec 2022
And that was my last day at Twitter. Laid off by email. The experience has been indescribable from chaos to hilarious.
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Looks like @SFMTA_Muni is pivoting into search.
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Sovereignty as an SRE problem. The political ask is independence. The engineering work is SLA, staffing, complexity, and creating an operational surface for a sovereign operator with a hyperscaler's stack. Three years on Google Cloud Dedicated / S3NS. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/13/s…
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Faux dystopian ads now. Made me look and made me take pic. No call to action in the new whatever.
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Coding LLMs spread because public code spread. Production engineering data is private by default, so AI for-ops concentrates around whoever has it. The data plane matters more than the model. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/07/a…

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Sadly Replay didn't pay for a durable website or possibly WiFi. So no conference schedule for me. #replay2006 fail
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My first lanyard in like 4 years. #replay2026
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LLMs got good at code because it's verifiable: tests pass or fail. Production engineering isn't. Same change, different outcome depending on live state. No cheap reward signal. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/04/v…

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A file is a table. A line is a row. `comm -12` is intersection, `comm -23` is set difference, `join` is an inner join, `sort -u` is SELECT DISTINCT. A small line-oriented relational algebra hiding inside POSIX. dajobe.org/blog/2026/05/01/t…
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Fleet automation lesson four years on: the caps on your destructive operations bound count. They don't bound concentration. Sorted host lists correlate with physical topology, and 'head -n 5' will cheerfully take out a rack. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/29/t…
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Presidio Tunnel Tops Park, San Francisco. Let’s hope Orange Felon won’t screw this one up since he hates Pelosi and walking.
View of Golden Gate Bridge with Presidio tunnel tops park in front on a sunny and cloudy day

ALT View of Golden Gate Bridge with Presidio tunnel tops park in front on a sunny and cloudy day
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I spent Q1 2026 interviewing for Staff SRE roles at AI infra companies. Both sides using LLMs. No one asked to see my tool setup, or how I decide when to generate code and when not to. The bar is still Judgement. The interview format hasn't caught up. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/20/l…
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Crusoe
@CrusoeAI
Apr 17
Most AI takes come from the outside looking in. Five Crusoe leaders share what they're actually seeing in AI infrastructure right now. An authentic view from inside the machine: crusoe.ai/resources/learn/el…

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Five Crusoe leaders share what they're actually seeing (and betting on) in AI infrastructure right now. Get the view from inside the machine.

crusoe.ai
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New job calendar meetings. Day 1: 1. Day 2: 1. Day 3: 5. Future: Day 4: 3 so far. Day 5: hoping for zero #onboarding
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Day 4 was 4 in the end. future day 5: 2 so far
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Day 5 was 2. So total meetings for week 1: 13
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Today I started work as a Senior Staff Production Engineer at @CrusoeAI in SF. dajobe.org/blog/2026/04/13/a…

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Timothy Snyder
@TimothyDSnyder
Apr 5
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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Kamala Harris was right about everything.
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Jon Lovett
@jonlovett
Apr 2
In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.
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