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Vetted Software: What It Means Now That AI Can Generate Code
AI has made code faster to produce, but dependable software still requires product judgement, verification and operational ownership.
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What Two AI CTO Seats Teach You About Building Software Customers Actually Use
AMPD and CarBuddy AI sit at different points in the customer journey, but they keep teaching the same lesson: the hard part is not…
Yet Another Day in the Life: When Three Problems Pretend to Be One
Sometimes the universe decides that one production incident isn’t enough. It needs to stack them like Russian dolls, each one revealing another surprise when…
A Day in the Life of a DevOps Engineer: How a Simple S3 Upload Took Down a Chatbot
In DevOps, the big outages rarely come from big failures. They come from the tiny things—small enough to slip past everyone’s radar, big enough…
Simple Model Choice Checklist
A practical, no-nonsense guide to choosing the right AI/ML model for your problem. Start simple, upgrade only when needed.
Is It Crazy to Have a Physical Disaster Recovery Manual? NASA Doesn’t Think So.
Every once in a while, I catch myself thinking about something that sounds borderline insane in the modern DevOps world.This week’s thought was this:…
The Best Vibe Coding Tool for Non-Technical People
If you’re not a programmer but want to harness the power of AI to build software, create websites, or automate tasks, the landscape of…
Building a Consulting Framework: What I Learned From Getting It Wrong
I spent the weekend writing down everything I wish I’d known before starting consulting work. Not the technical stuff, that’s the easy part. The…
DevOps Audit Checklist – Comprehensive Infrastructure Review Framework
A comprehensive yet practical framework for reviewing infrastructure, processes, and security posture. Covers IaC, CI/CD, security, containers, observability, and more.
“Let’s Just Do It Manually”: A Love Letter to Technical Debt
There’s a special place in my heart for those five words. Right next to “the build works on my machine” and “we’ll document it…
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