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Essays, post-mortems, and the occasional receipt — written from the trenches, cooled by research. Infrastructure reality, AI practice, and what actually happens when the marketing meets the product.
For two years "AI agent" meant a faster way to write software. The agents that matter now don't hand you a tool — they run the loop, do the analysis, and hand you the outcome. Why that's a new kind of labor, and why it's an executive decision, not a tooling one.
read the piece →SBOM tells you what shipped. EDR tells you what ran. Bumblebee answers a third question — which developer laptops have the bad lockfile entry on disk, right now. A walkthrough of the CLI, the scan profiles, and a worked incident-response example.
read the piece →Headless automation is easy to sell and easy to build. The hard, valuable work is the kind that still needs a person in the middle — and that's where the real intelligence accumulates.
read the piece →A lot of "AI agent" products you'll see this year are one of a handful of diagrams on a whiteboard. A plain-English walk through the common building blocks.
read the piece →A platform that sells itself on "no lock-in" has spent two and a half years letting three GitHub issues about bulk export rot on the vine. Here are the receipts.
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