Humainary is an AI and Cybernetics research and development initiative. https://humainary.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mwsnf3pghs2p"I’ve just picked up Antonio Damasio’s Natural Intelligence - the Logic of Consciousness, and it lands remarkably close to a question I’ve been pursuing in my own work: What turns sensing into intelligence?" #Intelligence #SituationalIntelligence #Observability lnkd.in/p/eJF36njh https://lnkd.in/p/eJF36njh01 Oct 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsnf3pghs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mwbdeytx7s2eAI agents are semantically inefficient because they constantly serialize internal states into natural language prose only to pay probabilistic models to re-interpret them. To achieve scalable, intelligent behavior, AI must transition from linguistic systems to semiotic agents.. lnkd.in/p/eWRvVeqh https://lnkd.in/p/eWRvVeqh24 Sep 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbdeytx7s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mwarajygxs2kModern observability has become good at answering questions about data. This creates a strange kind of progress: more searchable evidence and smoother explanations, yet no lasting record of what the system is, what it should be doing, or what its current state implies. lnkd.in/p/eTNw4wXM https://lnkd.in/p/eTNw4wXM24 Sep 2026 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwarajygxs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mw6ffr7tps2gThey raised the creature. They fed it logs, traces, metrics, alerts, runbooks, dashboards, catalogs, and queries. Then they lowered in the AI brain and announced a new age of operational intelligence. #Observability #DataDog #Dash0 #AISRE lnkd.in/p/epgpUXGj https://lnkd.in/p/epgpUXGj23 Sep 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6ffr7tps2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mw52cud47k2qFirst came the promise: preserve every event, attribute, dimension, trace, and clue for future use. Then the infrastructure: ingest, retain, index, query, correlate, and search—repeatedly—with AI SRE agents. #Observability #AISRE #AIOps #OpenTelemetry lnkd.in/p/eNHSecQE https://lnkd.in/p/eNHSecQE22 Sep 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw52cud47k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mvwtzrhgns2yObservability is a property of a system: it means a system’s internal state can be inferred from its outputs. OTel transmits data records, but stops there. The vital work of inference, situational intelligence, is left unaddressed. https://humainary.io/notes/what-blind-systems-leave-behind/20 Sep 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvwtzrhgns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mutvufkudc2eThis new post, titled “The House Behind the Search Box,” delves into the implications of telemetry hoarding, driven by the pursuit of observability, on an organization’s ability to make informed decisions, prioritize tasks, and continuously learn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hum-ai-nary_the-house-behind-the-search-box-activity-7501700389302558720-W4Gv06 Sep 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutvufkudc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mttiwgxlm222Wide Events: How Observability Turned Uncertainty Into a Business Model https://humainary.io/notes/wide-events-how-observability-turned-uncertainty-into-a-business-model/ The observability industry has exploited the concept of “unknown unknowns” to turn boundless data collection into a lucrative business model, shifting away from sound engineering principles24 Aug 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttiwgxlm222https://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mtqbgwmknc2cObservability: Searchable Ignorance https://humainary.io/notes/observability-searchable-ignorance/ Observability vendors have reduced observability to the ability to ask questions of data. The system itself stays outside the frame. The23 Aug 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqbgwmknc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mrfqijexds2kTelemetry is an unsuitable base for projection—projection in the engineering sense, which allows us to ask where a system might go, what follows if a trend persists, or what occurs if I act now rather than later. Those questions sit at the heart of every control system. https://humainary.io/notes/why-observability-needs-controllability/24 Jul 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrfqijexds2khttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mq4jotdc4s2dObservability: The Interpretive Ladder https://humainary.io/notes/observability-the-interpretive-ladder/08 Jul 2026 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4jotdc4s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mq23a7r3es2jPresented as a didactic dialogue between a master and an apprentice, this piece explores the core philosophy of software system observability. https://humainary.io/notes/mastering-observability-at-the-source/07 Jul 2026 07:25 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq23a7r3es2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mpbdarpitc2uThe #observability #sre industry must acknowledge its unsustainable approach. Complex, unpredictable, and unreliable systems require a deeper understanding of their operations. However, the industry’s solution is to collect more data, which is fundamentally flawed. https://humainary.io/notes/observability-the-unsustainable-path/27 Jun 2026 11:12 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpbdarpitc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mp4zvttcfk2wIt exposes the absurdity of the "log everything and figure it out later" mentality that is promoted by the likes of @datadoghq.com , @dynatrace.com , and @dash0.com. #observability #opentelemetry #tracing #sre #devops What Blind Systems Leave Behind https://humainary.io/notes/what-blind-systems-leave-behind/25 Jun 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4zvttcfk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mosalbk6es2jObservability is a property of a system: it means a system’s internal state can be inferred from its outputs. @opentelemetry.io transmits data records, but stops there. The vital work of inference, situational intelligence, is left unaddressed. https://humainary.io/notes/opentelemetry-is-not-observability/21 Jun 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mosalbk6es2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mon226klvs2kThis booklet offers a cybernetic and biosemiotic perspective on system sensing. It introduces a framework that represents a fascinating shift away from traditional, heavy event-sourcing toward a more holistic, biologically-inspired model of complex sociotechnical systems https://humainary.io/booklets/the-signal/19 Jun 2026 09:34 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mon226klvs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mollj2gasc2aObservability vendors have reduced observability to the ability to ask questions of data. They collect telemetry, store it, index it, visualize it, correlate it, and now verbalize it through AI agents. #observability #sre #devops #opentelemetry https://humainary.io/notes/observability-searchable-ignorance/18 Jun 2026 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mollj2gasc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mokgjjea722hThe latest edition of the O'Reilly Book, Observability Engineering, is an astonishing +600 pages long! This single number encapsulates the fundamental issues with Observability and @opentelemetry.io. #observability #books #o11y #monitoring #sre #devops https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:747313253333398732818 Jun 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokgjjea722hhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3moghk3zvtc2pDatadog’s Bits AI and Dash0’s Agent0, despite their polished appearance, primarily automate evidence retrieval, telemetry navigation, threshold-based insights, and natural-language summarization. They lack a genuine “system model” or real-time situational intelligence. https://humainary.io/notes/putting-the-ai-in-failing-datadog-and-dash0/16 Jun 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3moghk3zvtc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mkwxrs7xjc2kThis note emphasizes that real operational resilience hinges on the “thinking arrow” within us. This internal process transforms raw actions (like incidents, memory traces, and data) into useful knowledge like models and understanding. #SRE #AIOps #Dash0 #Observability https://humainary.io/notes/the-thinking-arrow/03 May 2026 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkwxrs7xjc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mk3fxdfyp22tThis booklet is for anyone who has come out of an incident wondering what was missed, or realized too late that they and a teammate were responding to different situations. It trains situational awareness as a disciplined six-station loop. #sre #devops #observability https://humainary.io/booklets/the-sre-guide-to-situational-awareness/22 Apr 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3fxdfyp22thttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mjlq34cyx22z#OpenTelemetry is architecturally omnivorous, being a centrifugal system. Humainary’s #Substrates is architecturally selective, being a centripetal system. Centrifugal architectures 
 produce reports. Centripetal architectures 
produce awareness. #Observability https://humainary.io/booklets/transport-and-substrate/16 Apr 2026 05:57 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlq34cyx22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mjktflpefc2oA new booklet delves into the underlying assumptions of OpenTelemetry and Substrates regarding the nature of computational systems. It explores their ontological commitments, epistemological stances, causal models, and theories of attention. #observability @dash0.com https://humainary.io/booklets/transport-and-substrate/15 Apr 2026 21:24 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjktflpefc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mj27nsvwac2iLanguage has become the cheapest material. The cost of producing a sentence is now zero (ignoring token costs), so sentences carry no information per unit. The entire medium is debased. Observability is no different.09 Apr 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj27nsvwac2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3miwevc5g622rSystems do not fail
because they lack data. They fail because they cannot
constitute context
nor recognize situation. #observability #sre #devops https://humainary.io/booklets/situating-context/07 Apr 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwevc5g622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mir47evkg22y"A book that changes how you look at an on-call dashboard, a post-mortem, a product spec, or an organizational decision. Once you internalize the distinction, you start seeing the same failure mode everywhere: teams that have perfect state but no shared situation..." https://humainary.io/booklets/situating-context/05 Apr 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mir47evkg22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3miqxewtoh22sData is merely recorded difference. Context is the structure that turns difference into meaning. Situation is the living, present moment when that meaning is activated. https://humainary.io/booklets/situating-context/05 Apr 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3miqxewtoh22shttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3miqmil6ld22qThis distillation of systems theory and observability reveals the deeper architectural truths of meaning generation, eliminating the noise of conventional technical discourse that focuses solely on data collection and organization. #observability #systemsthinking #sre https://humainary.io/booklets/situating-context/05 Apr 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3miqmil6ld22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3minodjbjt22cThe observability firefighting market grows in direct proportion to the volume of code entering production. Coding agents are an accelerant for observability vendors. They will generate the very chaos their products are built to manage. https://humainary.io/why-ive-stopped-selling-situational-awareness/04 Apr 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3minodjbjt22chttps://bsky.app/profile/humainary.io/post/3mino77e3e22cDash0 announced a $110M Series B at a $1B valuation. Its mission: evolve from OpenTelemetry-native observability into “the autonomous nervous system for production.” The language borrows from cybernetics and cognitive science but has very little of the substance. https://humainary.io/why-ive-stopped-selling-situational-awareness/04 Apr 2026 07:04 +0000at://did:plc:bjpmohj2icusrb3au76rj4go/app.bsky.feed.post/3mino77e3e22c