2026-05-21

Is anyone else exhausted?  I'm spending my days struggling uphill
to migrate over 30,000 SIP phones to a brand new, quite buggy VoIP
platform. Different makes, models, and configs, running in over
12k client networks, behind NAT on who-knows-what hardware, and
with a support team that (probably rightly) reaches for rollback
first and only sometimes remembers to report what went wrong.

Wouldn't it be great to have a QA team? Remember the days when
companies would staff appropriately when they were doing the Hard
Stuff? Those days seem to be over. Don't get me wrong: Claude is
great at digging through SIP traces and device logs to figure out
What Happened. But at the end of the day, there is no fun hitting
happy hour with a bunch of stuffy AI agents.

At least we are coming up on a long Memorial Day weekend here in
the US. Maybe I'll be able to avoid work for a few days, hack around
on some side projects, play a game or two. Or maybe take a nap.