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The Build vs Buy Math Just Flipped
For twenty years, the responsible advice was don't build software. Buy it. That advice was right. Custom software was slow, expensive, and risky. A mid-market c…
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Jul 22, 2026
Agent Governance Is a Program, Not a Purchase
The agent governance tools arriving now — Docker's among them — solve a problem that badly needed solving. Here is the part the sales process will not dwell on.…
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Jul 15, 2026
Your Most Expensive People Are Doing Retrieval Work
Watch what your most experienced people actually do all day. Most of it is not judgment. It is retrieval. The estimator digging through old jobs to price a new …
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Jul 08, 2026
You Connected Everything to Agents. Can You Govern Any of It?
If you run a mid-market company and your teams are wiring agents into everything right now, you have probably felt a little uneasy about it. You are handing aut…
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Jul 01, 2026
The Overconsumption Stack: Why Your AI Features Cost 10x What They Should
Most AI features in production today are overpaying for intelligence the same way a teenager overpays for car insurance. Not because of one big mistake, but bec…
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Jun 24, 2026
AI Is Getting Cheaper. Your AI Bill Is Going Up. Both Are True.
There are two clocks running in AI right now, and most finance teams are reading the wrong one. The first clock is the price of frontier intelligence. That is t…
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Jun 17, 2026
The AI You See Online Isn't the AI That Ships
Your feed is full of two kinds of AI content. Agents that supposedly run entire companies while the founder sleeps, and screenshots of chatbots telling customer…
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Jun 10, 2026
Automatically Integrate Grafana with AWS Fargate: A Practical Pattern for 2026
AWS Fargate is one of the cleanest ways to run containers. You hand AWS a task definition, and the platform schedules, networks, and bills you per task. No EC2 …
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Jun 03, 2026
Three Doors, Three Lanes: A 2026 Gen AI Adoption Playbook
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post called "Gen AI adoption blues". The argument was that the conversation about generative AI was running ahea…
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May 20, 2026
Writing a GitLab Pipeline with Claude Code
I've been using Claude Code for our internal GitLab pipelines for a while now and wanted to write up what the workflow actually looks like in practice. The serv…
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Apr 28, 2026
Importing Existing Infrastructure into Terraform with Claude Code
Every consulting engagement has the same moment. The client walks you through their AWS account and at some point says "yeah, someone set that up manually a whi…
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Apr 24, 2026
How to Generate Terraform Modules with Claude
Most LLM-generated Terraform is bad. You ask for a module, you get something that looks right, and then terraform validate lights up with errors. Provider block…
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Apr 24, 2026