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AI agents produce excellent code but routinely violate operational procedures — the same failure mode that created the DevOps movement. After 648 PRs across five languages, the scripts built for unreliable humans are exactly what unreliable AI agents need.
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The author built pymqrest almost entirely with AI and wrote virtually none of the code by hand. The result is as good as or better than anything produced in a 40-year career. This is an honest account of what worked, what did not, and what surprised him.
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A decades-long infrastructure strategy has to assume geopolitical change. This piece maps the early signals of sovereignty-driven diversification and what they mean for long-lived vendor decisions.
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Overthinking is a requirement at global scale. This case study shows how a tiny optimization, left unmeasured, became a worldwide outage, and why the principle stuck.
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Cold open: three months, total reversal In literally three months, I went from a hardcore anti-AI skeptic who wrote almost every line of code I was responsible for to someone who has essentially decided I won't be wasting my time writing code anymore. I don't want
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