I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

A rare personal note. My dear friend Ivo (the dad) has a rare genetic liver disease (PSC) and has, after concerted persuasion from those of us who love him dearly, finally consented to a public appeal for a living donor. Liver donation is quite miraculous in that one can give half and both halves grow back. Fwiw, none of the AI models yet understand how to cure PSC, though I would bet that the next generation of humans will be more lucky. I've never asked for RTs etc before but I think it would help in this case! Link below.

🧨 Go 1.24.0 is released! 📝 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24 ⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0 #golang

You can literally burn millions of dollars to write 200-300 lines of code.

Welcome to everyone who has joined us @Festsaal this morning for #BSidesBerlin 2024!

🎨 We’re thrilled to welcome Andrew Williams to #GoLab2024 with the talk "Fyne Apps from Start to Store". Whether you're a beginner or ready to build your dream app, this session is for you! 🚀 👉 golab.io/speakers/williams #GoLang #AppDevelopment

PSA for Berliner gophers: This year @GDGBerlinGo has plushies again, in 3 colors! If you want one - submit an in-person talk, the form can be found in each of our meetup pages 🩶💙🩷

A powerful type system is a double edged sword. Go's type system might be dull, but it prevents a lot of self-harm that is possible in other languages.

I’ll pay a subscription fee to any messaging app that offers a tier blocking voice messages

After enjoying delicious tacos we are ready for the second talk. Carmen Berros shows us how to migrate a Kotlin codebase to Go.

Michał Matczuk is talking about HTTP proxys in #Go

Tacos, drinks, stickers. We've got all you'll ever want at the #Go #Meetup in #Berlin. #golang #tacowednesday

Hello from our hybrid March meetup Gabor Ugray is sharing how he built RSS Parrot in #Golang Thanks @SumUp for hosting us!

💡Today's Tip💡 “Don’t overcomplicate code. As a consequence of the above guideline: Don’t abstract anything more than it needs to. The longer version: Nobody will ever change the tires and engine of a boat while it’s running. E.g. Your app will unlikely need to change from MySQL to Postgres without deeper code changes. This assumes you wrote it to take full advantage of MySQL.” 🧑‍💻From our fellow dev @dlsniper

Remember to RSVP for our 👻 spooky 🎃 Halloween #Go Meetup on October 31st at @GoogleDE in Berlin. Be prepared for development horror stories, food, drinks, and (most terrible of them all) 💀 deadlines 🧟: meetup.com/golang-users-berl…

I’ve been searching for words since Saturday. Hundreds were killed in a rave Babies, kids, elders and families were taken hostage All this, and hundreds dead, is celebrated in the streets around the world Last time so many Jewish people died in one day was in the holocaust.

We're excited to announce that there will be a #DevFest in #Berlin this year: devfest.berlin/. Early bird tickets are now available, also there is a call for speakers. So if you want to give a talk about #Go, submit it to sessionize.com/devfest-berli…. See you there!

Just a few hours until the August #Go #Meetup in #Berlin. 🥳 We're also offering a live-stream on Youtube now: youtube.com/watch?v=bQAWADmP… Please make sure to update your RSVP in case you can't attend: meetup.com/golang-users-berl… Looking forward to seeing you all there! ❤️

Is anyone able to login to @papercall_io via Twitter after the recent Twitter changes? Support is not answering and the login page breaks when choosing Twitter.

I’m excited to start teaching the summer semester DevOps course at the @HTW_Berlin today, for the second year! Special thanks to the guest lecturers for today: @vanriper / @GraphQL / developer communities @AinSoph / @elastic / logging @newmiker /@upvest / monitoring