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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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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 …
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →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…
Read more →How We Built a Weekly AWS Cost Digest Powered by AI
Stop reading raw Cost Explorer graphs. Let Claude write your FinOps briefing. The Problem With AWS Cost Explorery Every Monday morning, someone on your team ope…
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Setting Up Your Ruby on Rails Monolith for AI Development
Introduction The AI revolution has arrived, and it's transforming how developers work with codebases. For teams maintaining large Rails monoliths with millions …
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