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AI

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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Jordan Saunders · Jun 24, 2026

Digital Transformation

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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Jordan Saunders · Jun 17, 2026

Tech Leadership

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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Jordan Saunders · Jun 10, 2026

DevOps

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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Aru Shanmugam · Jun 03, 2026

Digital Transformation

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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Aru Shanmugam · May 20, 2026

DevOps

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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Alex Podobnik · Apr 28, 2026

DevOps

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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Alex Podobnik · Apr 24, 2026

DevOps

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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Alex Podobnik · Apr 24, 2026

Custom Software Development

How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers

If you're using Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding assistant), you've probably hit this wall: your AI pair-programmer can read your code, run your tests, and e…

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Colin Soleim · Apr 22, 2026

DevOps

Managing AWS Organizations and SCPs with Infrastructure as Code

Most AWS environments grow in the same direction: one account becomes two, two becomes five, and eventually someone is manually clicking through the console try…

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Alex Podobnik · Apr 22, 2026

Security

Your Software Has Vulnerabilities. Here’s How We Use Claude to Find Them.

Every codebase has vulnerabilities, and it is a mathematical certainty. The average commercial software application contains between 20 and 30 open-source depen…

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Travis Burmaster · Apr 21, 2026

DevOps

Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use

If you've tried Claude Code on a large Rails codebase, you've probably noticed the gap between the demos and reality. The demos show Claude refactoring a 50-lin…

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Colin Soleim · Apr 15, 2026