[stavarotti]

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It's hard to take the author seriously when this immediately follows the post. I can only conclude that this post was for the views not anything to learn from or be concerned about.

[inhumantsar]

what's truly incredible is that this person is selling bootcamps.

the things they "didn't realize" or "didn't know" are basics. they're things you would know if you spent any time at all with terraform or AWS.

all the remediations are table stakes. things you should at least know about before using terraform. things you would learn by skimming the docs (or at least asking Claude about best practices).

even ignoring the technical aspects, a tiny amount of consideration at any point in that process would have made it clear to any competent person that they should stop and question their assumptions.

I mean, shit happens. good engineers take down prod all the time. but damn man, to miss those basics entirely while selling courses on engineering is just astounding.

the grifter mentality is probably so deeply engrained that I'm willing to bet that they never once thought "I'm totally qualified to sell courses", let alone question the thought.

[6thbit]

why would you repost that here?

are you secretly OP trying to get substack hits?

[fragmede]

It's hard to take you take seriously. His blog has a generic "read more" footer and that's a demerit worth mentioning? What do serious people in your world that write blogs do? Not want people to read their other content? In what world do you live in that writers (serious or not) don't want you to read their other work?

[LelouBil]

It's not a generic footer, it's their reply directly to their tweet about the incident.

I agree with the person you are replying to, writing a tweet like :

"How I misused AI and caused an outage"

and replying to this very tweet saying

"Here's a blog where I write insights about AI"

Obviously do not make me want to read the blog.

[mnky9800n]

Some people seem think that self promotion is wrong and work should stand on its own merits. I don’t think this way. It’s important to think about engaging and attracting eyes to your ideas. If you don’t why bother sharing them?

[fragmede]

Self promotion being wrong has never met reverse psychology. Ego hacking is a thing.