When Politics Becomes Software

I have worked in a role as an SRE previously. It was kinda daunting at first, and then in the middle, it looked like I was doing politics instead of just shipping software.

It scared the hell out of me, and not because I don’t like software, but because I despise having to defend and prepare for situations which I hadn’t even fathomed before.

I was always on high alert, or most of the time, because I don’t know who, later on the chain of command, would then come at my throat to slit it because of some deployment. Or worse, when always having to defend for deployments that the development team prepared but hadn’t tested thoroughly and they NEEDED to have that in production because someone from upper management or a director told the rest of the staff to do.

A World Made by People

Sometimes, I guess that we often forget that we live in a world made by people, and that other beings just like us are behind the stuff that exists in here.

Countries at War, AI generated stuff, big corporations, news outlets, devices, digital gadgets, things and materiality that makes us percieve the world as ‘stuff’. Whereas, if we stop to think about it, there were people, someone, behind that at some point. I know, I know, all the AI debacle at some point, and what’s the use of humans anymore now, but hang on and bear with me for a moment…

Disconnection Between Corporate Management Culture and Technical Analysts

At the current state of the corporate job that I am part of, I must redeem myself to the state of a plentiful potato, when talking with upper project management, and it pisses me off. Why? I’ll tell you why, and it’s becase of the constant jerking off to goddamned Jira Cards, whereas they believe that a green checkbox reflects reality.

It does not.

The most inhumane thing that us tech workers are obliged to do to get to grips with the management people, is have an “up to date” picture of what the current state of the project looks like. But hell, honestly, who has time for it and who fucking cares? People will just look at that and call it a day, and move on, or continue doing their tasks.

Apex of Our Lives

Maybe, considering now, as I am approacing 32 years of life in this earth, just maybe I have already reached the apex of my life without ever realizing it. Maybe structurally and health-wise I must have let it slip by on some other friday back in April of some long past year, when I was in my early 20s or so… I may never know.

As much as many of us never do, and we continue going on with out lives, reaching out to attendances as we are requested, birthday parties, social gatherings and the like, and then right when you look at it, maybe 10 years have passed by. And maybe those might have been the best years of your life that you’ll never ever be able to recollect again, albeit for a frail proportion of memories and fragments of sensitive intuition on what if must have felt like back in the day.

Keep Up With Technology

Sometimes, it seems like actual work, just to keep up with the latest and shinyiest technology. Every week nowadays something spurs up, and it’s been actually wild, albeit a lil’ bit exhausting seeing what’s been brought up within tech, particularly in AI.

I’ll name a few, not in any partciular order, but just in case: AWS Kiro, Openclaw, MCPs, Clawsec, Templafy, Gateway API, nanobot, Sarvam (LLM), Grype, OpenFang, LandingAI (ADE), VoxCPM, Docling, Flyte 2, MCP Toolbox for DBs, Khoj, Server-Side events (SSE), Context-Mode MCP, Nullclaw, vLLM, llmfit, claude-code-best-practices, Raplh Wyggum, Doc-to-LORA, Scapling and I could go on indefinetly…

Grandhouses of Our Grandparents

You might have noticed a peculiar thing about a certain aspect of your memory.. In case, that is, that you might have gone and spent enough time of your childhood into your grandparents house.

Have you ever wondered how, maybe, those houses seemed and felt way bigger when you were just a toddler, as opposite to when you were a grownup ?

I was once in a part of an academic discussion, and one of the researchers just dropped this notice. “…now, take a moment to consider how the house of our grandmothers seemed way bigger when we were kids!” - I got that hunching over my head, because the statement didn’t felt right.