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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.
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The subagent that wrote its own jailbreak
A read-only agent produced a fully-formed jailbreak on its first turn. Nothing acted on it. Here is what happened, and what it says about how we scope agents.
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.
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.
Terraform All The Way
If you're running Kubernetes, Terraform should be doing the application layer too.
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