Operations Tool Making

Introduction

When I was young and early in my work career, between ski seasons when I was an instructor and high school semesters, I was lucky enough to work in a machine shop as a machinist assistant. Over the summers, I worked in loud, hot shops, loading metal into machines and watching it turn into aircraft wheel and brake systems for Matco Mfg. It was an enlightening time, and one that I think about frequently in my career as a Software Engineer, SRE, and Platform Engineer.

Introduction

I know that I tend to talk about AI, and “Vibe” Coding. I use it as part of my role and have a deep interest in AI. Sadly, my new blog seems to have been taken over by blogs posts talking about AI and Artificial Intelligence.

And that is because I am genuinely excited about AI. It really has an amazing potential to automate a lot of the workflows in our life and give us a better, less work oriented life so that we can focus on passions, art, creative endeavors, hobbies, and the things we often find ourselves “working” for. After all, in my case, I work to live rather than live to work.

Vibe Coding: Is Making Me Crazy

The image here and in the title is an interesting one. A fundamental part of my blog is the unique structure i am using. I’m wiring these posts as what I would call “Blog as code”, or using a tool known as hugo to put the blog posts into easily creatable and manageable Markdown files. In other words, I don’t want to spend too much time formatting, and would rather just have a couple of Markdown files that i am managing, put into source control in git, and then automatically deployed out my site.