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Forrest Brazeal

Cloud and tech commentary from Forrest Brazeal

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Speed Trap

My most transformative experience of 2025, in retrospect, was probably taking a Waymo self-driving taxi ride … in Atlanta.

Yes, I’ve been seeing Waymos and Cruises and Robotaxis periscoping their way around city streets for what feels like...

4 months ago
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When everybody's down, nobody is

AWS us-east-1 went down hard this week and took half the internet with it. This happens every 12-18 months or so. Amazing it doesn’t happen more frequently, tbh.

As always you have the Monday morning sysadmins chiming in with:

  • This is...
8 months ago
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Harsh truths to save you from ChatGPT psychosis

I am currently dealing with multiple people in my life who seem deep in the throes of what Futurism calls “ChatGPT psychosis.” I suspect you may know people like this as well. It is alarming and perplexing.

People have been confusing chat...

10 months ago
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Breaking some huge personal news

Yesterday, this announcement went up on a website called Publisher’s Marketplace, used by agents and editors in the book industry:

In case the weird run-on sentence format doesn’t make it clear: I have sold my first novel!!

This is someth...

a year ago
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I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering

Dear Stupid 22-Year-Old Self,

Congratulations on your shiny new computer science degree! You won’t be needing that anymore, feel free to forget all about it.

You like writing code, which is convenient, because all you’ve heard from your p...

a year ago
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