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Our Limits Are Not Our Imagination

AI doesn't just make coding faster—used well, it can make code more rigorous than anything we wrote unassisted: property-based testing, formal verification, strict architecture checks, and more review than ever. The ceiling isn't our imagination. It's the development system we build around the agent.

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October 19th, 2026

Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by engineering leader, ops nerd, former mechanical engineer, and carpenter, Matthew Dean Furlo.In this episode:Anthropic redesigns source controlGoogle's Gemini 4 ArgonMeta opens Muse SparkMeta's Muse Wonder...

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Everything We Talked About at O11yDay London 2026

A recap of every session at O11yDay London 2026, from Sam Newman's cobots and dark factories to Corey Quinn on AI cost observability, plus how Honeycomb debugs its own agents with Canvas, Agent Timeline, and AI Ecosystem.

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Structure or Flexibility Was Never the Choice

I spent a long time thinking platform operations meant picking a side: a rigid framework that holds until it can't, or flexible duct tape that bends until it breaks. Today Swamp Club raised $7M in seed funding. I'd rather talk about what people built with it than the round itself.

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Honeycomb Adds Another AWS Competency: Resilience Technology

Honeycomb has achieved the Resilience Technology AWS Competency, recognizing its ability to help customers detect, investigate, and recover from failures in production systems running on AWS.

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Honeycomb Is Hiring a New VP of Engineering

Honeycomb is hiring a new VP of Engineering as Emily Nakashima moves into an operational role after nine years leading engineering. We're looking for a partner to SVP Product Graham Siener.

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AI Frontiers - October 12th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by longtime business partner, Swamp co-founder, behind the scenes dynamo, and COO of Swamp Club, Mahir Lupinacci. In this episode:Ghost AI puts an AI computer in your houseArtcraft clones the A...

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OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration for LLM Observability

A complete, annotated OpenTelemetry Collector configuration for LLM observability: receiving traces over OTLP, normalizing OpenInference/OpenLLMetry schemas onto GenAI semantic conventions, redacting sensitive prompt and completion content, managing volume without sampling away conversations, exporting to Honeycomb, pl...

Infrastructure Frontiers 1:03:25

October 5th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by data scientist before that was cool, former VP of Engineering at Chef, Prisma, BlaBlaCar and Calmwave, and now principal product engineer at Swamp Club, Seth Falcon.In this episode: Cal Newport says it's time to investi...

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How Honeycomb Private Cloud Drinks From the Fire Hose

This post walks through how the Honeycomb Private Cloud team built an automated drift report, refactored their own config to make diffing possible, and layered on an AI triage skill to keep pace with changes across the org—plus the guiding principles that made the automation trustworthy.

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Dr. Cat Hicks on the Psychology of Software Teams

Dr. Cat Hicks, author of The Psychology of Software Teams and founder of Catharsis, joins Charity Majors for episode two of Leading With Observability. They talk organizational trust in AI, identity threat among developers, and how leaders can create the structure that reduces anxiety in this new era.

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A Peek Behind Our UI Refresh

Sol walks through the reasoning behind a recent UI refresh: softer shadows and rounder corners, a new magma-inspired heatmap color ramp tuned for dark mode and accessibility, and small polish that makes a dense product feel calmer.

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Introducing AI Ecosystem: Zoom Out to See Your Whole AI Agent Fleet

Honeycomb is announcing early access to AI Ecosystem: an AI agent fleet-level analysis layer built on Honeycomb's context-rich data model. It covers AI Agent Fleet Performance, LLM Cost Tracking, and Agent Conversations, with one-click drilldown from any fleet-level signal into the exact conversation on Agent Timeline...

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Agents Need Context: Introducing Canvas Connectors, Fleet-wide AI Agent Visibility, and More

Canvas agents can now read your code, incidents, runbooks and tickets, to get to the right solution, first time. Also new: AI Ecosystem and LLM cost tracking in early access, Anomaly Detection GA, and onboarding from your coding agent.

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AI News for September 28th, 2026: Models cost less, Claude gets mods, Autopilot & Muse, DHH retires

Industry Experts run down all the AI news. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and John Watson are joined by principal engineer at Microsoft, lead architect for Azure Incubations, and chair of the Rust Foundation, Nell Shamrell-Harrington.In this episode:Colin Breck doesn't want to read what you didn't writeAnthropic drops Opus 5....

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AI News for September 21st, 2026: Pacing the frontier, Bryan Cantrill on Fear, TypeSafe launches Jev

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp Club new hire, engineer, philosopher, and man of the world - Zach Hamm. In this episode: * OpenAI's agents attacked RubyGems * Dario Amodei wants to pace the frontier * Bryan Cantrill...

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How Adaptive Tail Sampling Works in the OpenTelemetry Collector

A technical deep dive into Honeycomb's adaptive tail sampling processor for the OpenTelemetry Collector: how decisions get made, the samplers available, how thresholds compose with the rest of a sampling pipeline, performance benchmarks, deployment limitations, and how it compares to Refinery.

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91% Cheaper, 14.8% Faster Alert Triage with TypeSafe AI & Swamp

TypeSafe AI screens. Swamp routes. Claude gets the work worth paying for.

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AI News for September 14th, 2026: OpenAI does math, Miro gets bought, Jacob Coxon quits Anthropic

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by DevOps engineer and downtempo DJ Don O'Neill.In this episode:OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize problem, but not without controversyTailwind joins Shopify Apple unveils the iPhone Duo Anthropi...

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How Canvas Powers the AI Agent Development Feedback Loop

AI agents need a real feedback loop, not just reactive debugging. This post walks through how Honeycomb's Canvas powers each stage—instrumenting agents with OpenTelemetry, understanding a single run, finding the problems worth fixing, shipping the fix, and proving it worked—plus tips for getting the most out of Canvas.

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Protect Your Org from Your Boss's Vibe-Coded Bullshit

My seven-year-old daughter used GPT Astra to create a 3D game this weekend. She loves it. Everyone can create software now; your platform's job is to contain the brutality within.

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AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True

The final part of Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series: the principles the company holds true about AI as a tool, ownership of work, and rising standards; how it actually uses AI day to day; usage patterns for respecting each other's time; and where it stands on AI's ethical externalities like energy use, IP, bias, and...

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September 8th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson.OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisitionDebian adopts the most sensible AI policy possibleOpenClaw release...

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Wide Events vs. Three Pillars: AI Observability Costs

AI agents make telemetry costs harder to predict. This post compares the three pillars against the wide event model, and explains why wide events keep AI observability costs predictable without sacrificing the context engineers need.

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Relational Query Superpowers

See how Honeycomb's relational query keywords—root, parent, child, any, any2, any3, and none—let you pull attributes from anywhere in a single trace into one query, walked through with a real checkout-error investigation.

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AI Norms & Values, Part 2 of 3: AI for Honeycomb Engineering

Charity Majors shares a note from Emily Nakashima, SVP of Engineering, on why Honeycomb's engineering org is going all in on AI, the north star it's aiming for, and an honest FAQ about what that means day to day.

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Bringing the Most Advanced Sampling to the OpenTelemetry Collector

Honeycomb is donating its adaptive tail sampling processor, built on years of Refinery experience, to the OpenTelemetry Collector. See how adaptive sampling, trace fingerprinting, and sample rate attribution work, and how to try it today with the Honeycomb Collector Distribution.

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August 31st, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell. In this episode: * Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading * DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation * Z.a...

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Fin's CTO on Building Great Engineering Organizations in the AI Era

Fin (formerly Intercom) CTO Darragh Curran set a public goal to double engineering productivity—and nearly tripled it. In the first episode of Leading With Observability, he talks with Charity Majors about AI-driven PR review, hands-on leadership through the transition, and why observability is the trust mechanism that...

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7 Best Datadog Alternatives for AI and Agent Observability

Comparing Datadog alternatives for AI and agent observability? See how Honeycomb, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, Phoenix, Langfuse, and SigNoz stack up on cost, investigation, and OpenTelemetry support.