Here’s the “Fighting against AI in SRE” update for the past week.

Experienced developer raised a PR for our IaC that was full of AI slop, which he only admitted to when pressed, and expected it waved through. Stumbled across Claude (free version) configuration in a very proprietary repo. C-level keeps setting up meetings every two weeks asking how we get AI in our product, unsatisfied with “it breaches GDPR so we don’t” as an answer. Got sent this painful little article which caused war flashbacks to my desktop support days: https://thenewstack.io/vibe-coding-the-shadow-it-problem-no-one-saw-coming/

@Ominous Be careful about crowdsourcing too much - people have a way of killing enthusiasm for new games and new ideas because they tend to focus on all the ways it WON’T work. It can be hugely discouraging, but it’s just the nature of the kind of critique you’re going to get in this format.

Solicit ideas by all means, but one of the strongest markers of a successful game, I’ve found, is the passion of the creator and their willingness to put in the work to build enthusiasm of actual players. Decide the game YOU want to run, the game that’s worth it to you to do the work on, bring on a small group of people whose vision strongly aligns with yours, and go for it.