naming things

Prod...

AI...

Sandbox...

Note

generation...

Ooh... What could go wrong?

We gave it a name

It made sense at the time

Every word was correct

Every word was just fine

Prod was the project

Sandbox was the place

Put them both together

And stare into space

Prod... AI... sandbox...

Which one

are you?

Prod... AI... sandbox...

Neither word is untrue

Two words

Opposite things Engineers are terrible At naming things (Ooh...) Naming things...

Then the name became the role

And the role became the policy Then the name became the logs

And propagated endlessly Terraform remembered What nobody could explain One questionable decision

Now has four resource names

Function name...

Role name...

Policy

name...

Log group...

Oh no...

“The first word is a project noun.

The third is an environment.

Nothing in the string

signals that.” “The timing is lucky.”

“Nothing has been applied.”

Aaahhh...

Drop the prod Keep the sandbox Let the function breathe again

AI note generation

Environment appended at the end Nothing applied Nothing destroyed No state migration

tonight

Engineers are terrible At naming things

Naming things... Naming things...

We can build distributed systems...

Naming things... We can automate the cloud...

Naming things...

But ask us what to call it...

AI note generation...

Sandbox... That's better...

Until next week...

Someone will call

it “final-v2-new”...