I accidentally created an Orwellian Performance Review bot that monitored everything

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Part 1 - Orwellian AI

This is mostly a story of how I didn’t think through the implications of the software I was building.

The Challenge

My brother is a bootstrapped founder for a small, mildly successful startup. One day he starts a conversation that goes something like:

> Oh man, I’m juggling so much at work.
> I can’t look away from Marketing, Sales, Engineering, or Product.
> When I’m leading sales, I spend time away from Product, and they start working on the wrong things.
> Everyone works hard, but it’s me. I don’t scale.
> Is that something LLMs can help with? We have so much unstructured data laying around.

AWS Batch Executor >= Celery Executor

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A Good Executor “Just Works”

Nope, I’m not selling lemons here. I have a high standard for components not being a routine bother. The nice thing about using an AWS Executor is that there are a lot of things that are managed for you. Scheduling, container placement, monitoring, alerting, provisioning, and auto-scaling to name a few.

A Good Executor Autoscales