Joe Beda

Out of retirement to be CTO @ Stacklok. Did k8s, GCE, gtalk and IE. Figuring shit out. Protect Trans kids 🏳️‍⚧️. Seattle. Signal: jbeda.99 he/him

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Joe Beda@h· 8d

Go home Gemini. You’re drunk.

Gemini screen cap

Me: I want to create 700 ml of simple syrup.
What are the ratios and amounts in cups for water and sugar?

Gemini: Checklist:
Did I use forbidden phrases? No.
Did I use user data when it added no specific value? No, I am not using user data here.
Sensitive data? No.
Correction ledger? No conflict.
All good. Proceeding to format the answer.To create exactly 700 ml (about 3 cups) of simple syrup, you need to account for how sugar dissolves in water.
A common misconception is that 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar yield 2 cups of syrup. In reality, dissolved sugar only adds about 50% of its volume to the liquid. This means a 1:1 mixture yields exactly 1.5 times the amount of water you started with.
To hit your 700 ml target, use these amounts:
2 cups (473 ml) of water
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2 cups (400 g) of granulated white sugar

Joe Beda@h· Jul 19

I’m at the Cubs game. Against the Twins. Bottom of the 4th and the Cubs are destroying the twins. 9-0. Oof. Beautiful day though! Only a little smoky.

A baseball field from high up in the bleachers. Sunny day with the bleachers filled. Wrigley field.

Joe Beda@h· Jul 17

A leaked slide from the NSA from the Snowden leaks that show how they compromised Google traffic. This has the infamous “smiley” next to the Google Front End (GFE) saying “SSL added and removed here!” with a smiley face.

This pissed off everyone at Google in a way it is hard to explain.

Joe Beda@h· Jul 4

Same.

A view of a northwest beach with some hills in the background with overcast clouds. It looks a little chilly.

Joe Beda@h· Jun 20

Ha! I am apparently a VPE at Red Hat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screen cap from “intheweights.com” looking up Joe Beda. Has bar charts for various models. Says 841 strength and “top 2%”. The GLM 4.7-Flash model says “Kuberneetes co-creator and VP of Engineering at Red Hat”

Joe Beda@h· Jun 15

Ok. This is cool. I think I’m pulling for Egypt as they are the underdogs.

View of stadium in Seattle with the flags of Egypt and Belgium spread out on the field. A blue sky with wispy clouds. Seattle skyline in background.

Joe Beda@h· Jun 14

Years and years ago we were invited to an event to celebrate the opening of the SpaceX engineering office here in Seattle/Redmond. We got some champagne flutes to take home as a souvenir. To celebrate the IPO these are now going in the trash. 😂

Joe Beda@h· Jun 11

I sat down with @cmcluck.bsky.social and Tim Porter from Madrona to talk about enterprise AI infrastructure and how we are thinking about it. We covered a lot of ground but here is a little snippet. Check it out! youtu.be/hCMwLSgEE3k Full transcript: www.madrona.com/the-best-inf...

Joe Beda@h· Jun 7

This is going to be such a disaster. If they are pitching the IPO this hard… Or maybe it’ll become load bearing bullshit. I hate it here.

An ad from Reddit where SoFi is pitching the SpaceX IPO.

Joe Beda@h· Jun 6

I’m thinking it is a carabiner with some Subaru keys? (Lifted from Reddit. Not sure original source)

A sign from Seattle Tacoma Airport that says: “Announcements: Checkpoint 3 for lesbian item.” And below says “Speech to Text: A new technology being tested at SEA”

Joe Beda@h· Jun 1

A key diagram from the post. The "dangerous middle" is where you think something is well understood and ready to implement but there are hidden assumptions. With agents they can often create something plausible but wrong.

Diagram titled 'R&D is two jobs', with the subtitle 'Research figures out what good looks like; development executes against a known good.' It maps a left-to-right spectrum. At the top, two bars show the reach of two kinds of AI tool: a bold, full-width teal bar reading 'Interactive agent (you in the loop): works across the whole spectrum', and below it a smaller, lighter teal bar covering only the right half, reading 'Autonomous factory: needs a known target.' Beneath the bars is the spectrum itself, drawn as a horizontal double-headed arrow with a pole at each end: on the left, 'Research: find what good looks like'; on the right, 'Development: execute against a known good.' The background gradient shifts from warm parchment on the research side to teal on the development side. A vertical amber marker line sits near the middle of the spectrum, annotated 'drifts left over time', and it lines up with the left edge of the factory bar above, showing the factory only operates to the right of that boundary. Hanging from that boundary is an amber warning box reading 'The dangerous middle: work that looks like development but hides an unproven assumption. Point the factory at it and it converges confidently on the wrong target. And it looks done.' The takeaway: an interactive agent helps everywhere on the spectrum, but the autonomous factory only works once you have a checkable target, and the danger is mistaking still-unproven research for development.

Joe Beda@h· May 26

Here is the main 3x3 grid from that post. This is over twice as good as a 2x2 grid! Or perhaps more like a D&D alignment chart?

A 3×3 grid titled 'Nine Kinds of Agents'. The horizontal axis is labeled 'Tech Depth' with three columns: Consumer, Knowledge Worker, and Developer. The vertical axis is labeled 'Autonomy' with three rows from top to bottom: Fully Autonomous, Chat, and Autocomplete. Fully Autonomous row: Consumer cell — 'Autonomous personal agents', examples: ChatGPT Agent, Perplexity Comet, OpenClaw; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Autonomous enterprise agents', examples: Salesforce Agentforce, ServiceNow, Harvey AI; Developer cell — 'Dark Factory', examples: Gas Town, StrongDM, OpenAI harness engineering. Chat row: Consumer cell — 'Consumer chat', examples: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude.ai; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Knowledge worker chat agents', examples: Glean, Claude CoWork; Developer cell — 'Interactive coding agents', examples: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, Cline, Aider. Autocomplete row: Consumer cell is intentionally empty — consumer AI skipped this phase; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Knowledge worker assist', examples: M365 Copilot, Notion AI; Developer cell — 'Coding autocomplete', examples: GitHub Copilot, early Cursor.

Joe Beda@h· May 23

Made a bunch of tweaks including cover images and such so once the enhanced support in bsky lands, it should look like this.

The bluesky post UI where I'm posting my "hello, world" post. It shows a cover image that matches the blog theme along with information about the publication itself including a favicon.

Joe Beda@h· May 3

Beautiful evening for a ball game.

A dusk view of a game in progress at TMobile field in Seattle. The mariners are playing the royals and are up 2-1. The city skyline is in the distance.

Joe Beda@h· Apr 29

Having a little treat after work. Some Malört served in its traditional glass: a urine specimen jar.

A bottle of Malört and an empty and clean urine specimen jar on a black textured counter.

Joe Beda@h· Apr 12

When Heptio was acquired by VMware we had to give up our downtown Seattle office. We had just gotten a new light up sign for the reception and no one wanted it so it has been sitting in my garage for the past 8 years. I have space now so just hung it up and it is magnificent.

Joe Beda@h· Mar 28

If anyone here at #ATmosphereConf misses @krisnova.net I have some stickers to hand out.

On the back of my badge: “Fuck the Internet. I'm going to go climb mountains
- Nóva”

Joe Beda@h· Mar 26

Made it to #ATmosphereConf. Feel free to say hi if you see me!

Badge for the conference. It is a DIY badge with my horrible handwriting. Has my name and pronouns (he/him) alone with “Ask me about” listing k8s, machine identity and “my handle @h.olysh.it”.

Stickers at the bottom saying “we can just do things”, a “no Caesars” symbol and the bsky butterfly.

Joe Beda@h· Mar 22

First time at a spring training game! Go @mariners.com!

Sunset picture of a ballpark. Wispy clouds. From along the first base line.

Joe Beda@h· Mar 21

Not the aurora but a view from a plane this evening!

Joe Beda@h· Feb 25

Stack of letterpress cards that say “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play”. Blue mechanical pencil and wood block of a large asterisk beside the stack.

Joe Beda@h· Feb 23

I write talks by first writing a doc with an outline. Figured I'd feed that to gemini and let it create the deck. No go. We have a long way before the experience we have with coding agents can apply to other apps and domains. This should be a slam dunk but the plumbing just isn't there.

Gemini discussion.

me: Create a slide deck from the outline in "Talk outline: Platform S..."

Gemini: Something went wrong. Try again.

Joe Beda@h· Feb 23

*sigh*

Chat with gemini (from the side of a google slides deck):
me: "Using unsplash as a source, pick a different background for this slide."

Gemini: "I can't directly change the background for you, but here are the steps to change the slide background with an image in Google Slides, which will allow you to choose an image from various sources (including uploading one you find on Unsplash):
On your computer, select the slide you want to change.
In the toolbar, click Slide, then choose Change background.
In the panel that opens, click Choose image next to "Image."
You can then select an image from your computer, Google Drive, Google Photos, or use Google Image Search to find a picture for the background.
Once you choose your image, click Done to apply it to the selected slide."

Joe Beda@h· Feb 15

So much to see. But for me, the highlight so far was seeing the sunset in the Sahara after a camel ride. If you can get down to Merzouga and stay in a desert camp, it is amazing. It is a *long* drive though.