Infra · Python · Cloud · AI Agents

Optimizing software delivery
and the agents now doing half of it.

Field notes on infrastructure, Python, cloud, and the AI-agent systems I build and break for a living.

Latest
Augustus of Prima Porta, cast of the 1st-century AD marble statue

AI in the software development pipeline

Take the SDLC and put an autonomous agent everywhere you'd otherwise put a human. Where the slots are, how to fill them, and why the harness and the feedback loop matter more than the model.

Jun 28·18 min read

Laocoön and His Sons (Hellenistic marble, Vatican Museums)

Jun 13·3 min

The Checkup I Didn't Do

Every time a smarter AI model lands, run it over all your projects. I keep telling people that. Then I got three days of Fable, and didn't.

Marcus Aurelius (Equestrian statue, 2nd century AD)

May 23·12 min

Terraform All The Way

If you're running Kubernetes, Terraform should be doing the application layer too.

Michelangelo, Pietà (1499)

Mar 29·7 min

The Stages of AI Grief

I was watching my craft melt away like a block of ice in the sun. And then I came out the other side.

Work with me

Working on something hard?

I’m an independent software & AI consultant working on infrastructure, Python, cloud, and the agent systems I write about here. If a problem here sounds like one of yours, get in touch.

Tell me what you’re building →

or just say hi — rutger@deknijf.com