Talks to Watch

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers

646K views · Feb 27, 2024 · 4:01 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2024–2025

A KRAZAM comedy sketch in which a character recites reassuring affirmations to site reliability engineers, satirizing on-call and outage culture.

Why Hacker News points people here: Shared as comic relief that hits close to home for people who work with infrastructure at scale.

“this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry”HN comment, 2024

What Hacker News said 3

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Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers this video this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry

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JokeTerr_Aug 2025

“Related comedy video”

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> I spent a weekend building a system where you can call a phone number, complain about your broken Kubernetes cluster, and have an AI therapist with a posh British accent tell you that "your infrastructure is code poetry written in YAML." Related comedy video: "Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers" this video

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