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Notes on safe change, recovery, cloud security, and the systems behind production software.

2026

GLM-5.3 vs Kimi K3 for agentic engineering: price, benchmarks, and the screenshot problemAugust 30, 2026

Operating AI Agents Like Production Systems, Part 3: Monitor Non-Deterministic Agent WorkAugust 21, 2026

Operating AI Agents Like Production Systems, Part 2: Bind Approvals to the Exact ActionAugust 21, 2026

Operating AI Agents Like Production Systems, Part 1: Build an Evidence GateAugust 21, 2026

Faster distillation is not a release gateAugust 19, 2026

The prompt is not the control planeAugust 16, 2026

No errors is not a health signal: monitoring the work that stopped happeningAugust 13, 2026

Refactoring is bonsai work, but the shears are testsAugust 11, 2026

A failed CI run is evidence, not a replay recipeAugust 10, 2026

An AUR adoption is a supply-chain boundaryAugust 3, 2026