This post is a thinly veiled marketing promo. Here's why.
Skip to the summary section titled "Fast feedback is the only feedback" and its first assertion:
... the only thing that really matters is fast, tight
feedback loops at every stage of development and operations.
This is industry dogma generally considered "best practice" and sets up the subsequent straw man:
AI thrives on speed—it'll outrun you every time.
False.
"AI thrives" on many things, but "speed" is not one of them. Note the false consequence ("it'll outrun you every time") used to set up the the epitome of vacuous sales pitch drivel:
To succeed, you need tools that move at the speed of AI as well.
I hope there's a way I can possibly "move at the speed of AI"...
Honeycomb's entire modus operandi is predicated on fast
feedback loops, collaborative knowledge sharing, and
treating everything as an experiment. We’re built for the
future that’s here today, on a platform that allows us to
be the best tool for tomorrow.
This is as subtle as a sledgehammer to the forehead.
What's even funnier is the lame attempt to appear objective after all of this:
I’m also not really in the business of making predictions.
Really? Did the author read anything they wrote before this point?
Is it even attempting to be veiled at all? You know you’re reading a company’s blog post, written about a feature the company is building for their product, right? It is explicitly marketing.
I do believe the veil is at best "thin." Perhaps I was being too generous given the post starts with:
New abstractions and techniques for software development
and deployment gain traction, those abstractions make
software more accessible by hiding complexity, and that
complexity requires new ways to monitor and measure what’s
happening. We build tools like dashboards, adaptive
alerting, and dynamic sampling. All of these help us
compress the sheer amount of stuff happening into something
that’s comprehensible to our human intelligence.
In AI, I see the death of this paradigm. It’s already real,
it’s already here, and it’s going to fundamentally change
the way we approach systems design and operation in the
future.
Maybe I should have detected the utterly condescending phrase, "something that’s comprehensible to our human intelligence."
Skip to the summary section titled "Fast feedback is the only feedback" and its first assertion:
This is industry dogma generally considered "best practice" and sets up the subsequent straw man: False."AI thrives" on many things, but "speed" is not one of them. Note the false consequence ("it'll outrun you every time") used to set up the the epitome of vacuous sales pitch drivel:
I hope there's a way I can possibly "move at the speed of AI"... This is as subtle as a sledgehammer to the forehead.What's even funnier is the lame attempt to appear objective after all of this:
Really? Did the author read anything they wrote before this point?