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Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers

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2 HN users recommended this comedy video2 months2024–2025 score 2
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Shared as comic relief that hits close to home for people who work with infrastructure at scale.

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

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

2 recommendations · 1 jokes · Comedy

3 Hacker News comments

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@Terr_ Aug 2025 Makes a joke
on HN thread An AI Therapy Hotline for Engineers
> 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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