I like pretty things, functional things, funny things, food things, and computer things. Former: Storage infra things 🤗 @hf.co, Devops things @lexblog.bsky.social and devex/cloud infra things at @pantheon.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3m5wmvfwvsk2pSometimes I am struck by the weirdness of our dystopian present.18 Nov 2025 20:57 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5wmvfwvsk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3m342lh3sqc25Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0. https://www.techpolicy.press/before-ai-exploits-our-chats-lets-learn-from-social-media-mistakes/13 Oct 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3m342lh3sqc25https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3m2rodxxgdk2vBeautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social "Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life." Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on. https://yewjin.substack.com/p/note-to-my-present-self09 Oct 2025 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rodxxgdk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3m2cefl7pec2nThe Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀 A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.03 Oct 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cefl7pec2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3m23k43lrt225Just a reminder that this is a legit status code https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/41830 Sep 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3m23k43lrt225https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lzm6ao2a222iThe rise of AI-generated workslop. https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity24 Sep 2025 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzm6ao2a222ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lz4njv74v223Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation." Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-recent-issues18 Sep 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4njv74v223https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lv7gmruuxc22Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence" "Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices." https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/30 Jul 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7gmruuxc22https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lv7biytzgk2pWe just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities). https://huggingface.co/spaces/jsulz/ready-xet-go30 Jul 2025 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv7biytzgk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lv32fefnjk2bPerhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-bitter-lesson-versus-the-garbage29 Jul 2025 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv32fefnjk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lu4hh6xny22fLoved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social "There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father" 💯💯💯💯 https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/agency16 Jul 2025 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu4hh6xny22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3ltz73q3utc27We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first. Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: https://huggingface.co/blog/migrating-the-hub-to-xet15 Jul 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltz73q3utc27https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3ltxjwosndc25A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke. https://huggingface.co/blog/infrastructure-alerting14 Jul 2025 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltxjwosndc25https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3ltfnuccgus2z"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?" https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-emdashes-part-two07 Jul 2025 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltfnuccgus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lt5mdtzbns22Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5mdtzbns22https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lswpcwbcuk2vOn using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities” https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/jun/30/ai-chatgpt-personal-messages01 Jul 2025 22:03 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lswpcwbcuk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lsoaym2ml22nPrivacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life" [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jun 2025 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsoaym2ml22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lsmghlzz6c25What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims? It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis. Not *so* far off from how I would perform. https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-127 Jun 2025 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsmghlzz6c25https://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lsluv5vdmc2jAnd so the march to the season of darkness begins. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Jun 2025 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsluv5vdmc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lsjenqaxos2oIt's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling. A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today? 🤗 700,000 users/orgs 📈 350,000 repos 🚀 15PB26 Jun 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjenqaxos2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lshipgl7622c"All of these jobs are ultimately about trust and responsibility. Not only does the task need to be done, someone needs to take responsibility for what was delivered." https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/06/what-is-automatable-and-who-is_22.html25 Jun 2025 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lshipgl7622chttps://bsky.app/profile/jsulz.com/post/3lsgurf5tmk2wStumbled across deepwiki.com last night. Great resource for anyone trying to get up to speed on an open source repo. Does a pretty good job of explaining the xet-core codebase and Xet deduplication tech on Hugging Face deepwiki.com/huggingface/... (probably better than I have 😅) https://deepwiki.com25 Jun 2025 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:trv6ukdnqqnsp37wfouyffca/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsgurf5tmk2w