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His timing couldn’t be better, because really, even if you are the user, you deserve to be heard – by, well, yes ... YOU, the coder! 😅 (8/10)

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"So most admins haven’t had the chance to spend years thinking about code in a 'product' mindset with software development lifecycles. "Oh. Hey. "I should probably find a way to slip that into my talk.” (6/10)

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Two days ago, pre-consulting for another such admin team led me to say: “You know, I’m doing a podcast about this Wednesday night. About how operations work so often constrains your options that the sky hasn’t been the limit to what you can theoretically invent. (5/10)

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The “griping” I had in mind–which seemed to be a key to unlocking LLM assistance with requirements analysis–was, initially, frustrations about the process of teamwork itself. LLMs can transform your secret complaints about your colleagues and bosses into roadmaps for useful automation code. (4/10)

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My initial audience was enterprise employees whose “customers” are all their own in-house colleagues, and who simply wanted to write code for themselves and their teams, to “automate the boring stuff” about their own jobs.

I even marketed the talk with the hashtag #sysadmin in every post. (3/10)

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I’m amused and delighted that this talk’s topic is coalescing for @vbrownbag.com in the way it is, in the morning on the day we air. (Thread coming. 1/10)

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Hey @mistwire.com, we're awful and it's all our fault!

Wait, that can't be right.

( #LLM to the rescue... )

Much better!

Emotions can run high in tech; come to "Griping as a Service" on @vbrownbag.com to make them your coding superpower. 8:30-9:30PM US Eastern, in just 2 DAYS! (Wed. 10/14/26)

A screenshot of a slide from an upcoming presentation. The title reads "Example: blameless postmortem for a wasted internship." The left pane includes an excerpt from an imaginary intern's diary, blaming Chris and Katie for all of their failures to get to do anything useful on a sysadmin rotation. The right pane includes a cleaned-up paragraph that the intern could use to describe how their rotation went, in a way that is polite, yet actionable. At bottom are a headshot of Katie Kodes, the speaker, and a logo for vBrownBag, the webinar series on which she will be presenting this talk.
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@timnitgebru.blacksky.app, I don't think Sanders has great taste in the "intellectuals" he hangs out with. His hand was briefly forced by activists in 2016 when he had a stretch goal & had to accommodate broader influences, but now that he's back to a safe seat, I think we see his bad taste again. 🤷‍♀️