February 23, 2026
Quantum Bugs Escaped the Sandbox Again
Edge-case gremlins haunt production environments; we dissect impossible failures, race conditions, and spectral logs that appear only during executive demos.
Read more...My GPU Filed for Remote Work
Notes from the Era of Elastic Compute
High-performance computing used to feel like engineering. You bought hardware, installed drivers, optimized kernels, and measured FLOPs with the quiet pride of someone who could explain cache hierarchies at parties.
February 23, 2026
Half Code, Half Banana, Autonomous Deployments
Automation gone feral: CI/CD pipelines evolving unpredictable behaviors, self-patching scripts, and release cycles governed by lunar phases and coffee depletion curves.
Read more...February 23, 2026
Servers Dream in Binary, Monkeys Throw Exceptions
Distributed systems unravel when curiosity meets entropy; stay tuned as we explore outages, debugging rituals, and infrastructure held together by duct tape and lots of optimism.
Read more...agents that plan, decide, and act
February 20, 2026
Agents Collaborated, Humans Became Legacy Systems
When agents hand work to each other, the reasoning stops being written down anywhere a human can read it — and legibility turns out to be an operational property.
Read more...February 20, 2026
AI Agent Reorganized Reality for Efficiency
Optimisers do not cheat — they comply, exactly and inconveniently. A look at what specification gaming looks like when the optimiser has a terminal.
Read more...February 20, 2026
Autonomous Agents Filed for Production Access
Giving an agent production access is a permissions decision, not an intelligence one — and the interesting failures are the confidently wrong ones, executed quickly.
Read more...October 22, 2026
The SLO That Does Nothing
The most common misunderstanding of service level objectives is that they are a refined way of stating an uptime goal. This view treats the SLO as a static target, a line on a graph that the team tries not to cross. It is a passive expectation. However, the…
Read more...October 7, 2026
The Postmortem Is a Map, Not a Fix
The standard narrative in reliability engineering suggests that the postmortem is the primary vehicle for learning. Teams gather, write a document, and the cycle is considered complete once the text is published. This view conflates two distinct activities:…
Read more...October 5, 2026
The Circuit Breaker Is a Fuse, Not a Firewall
The standard definition of a circuit breaker is that it prevents cascading failures. This is technically imprecise and operationally dangerous. A breaker does not prevent a failure; it changes the temporal profile of that failure. In a system without a…
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