https://chaotic-monkey.com/ Chaos engineering, elastic compute, and infrastructure held together by duct tape and optimism. The titles are jokes; the contents are not. en Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:30:08 +0000 https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/quantum-bugs-escaped-the-sandbox-again/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/quantum-bugs-escaped-the-sandbox-again/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Some Monkey News Edge-case gremlins haunt production environments; we dissect impossible failures, race conditions, and spectral logs that appear only during executive demos. https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/half-code-half-banana-autonomous-deployments/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/half-code-half-banana-autonomous-deployments/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Some Monkey News Automation gone feral: CI/CD pipelines evolving unpredictable behaviors, self-patching scripts, and release cycles governed by lunar phases and coffee depletion curves. https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/servers-dream-in-binary-monkeys-throw-exceptions/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/servers-dream-in-binary-monkeys-throw-exceptions/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Some Monkey News 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. https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/my-gpu-filed-for-remote-work/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/monkey-news/my-gpu-filed-for-remote-work/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Some Monkey News 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. https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/agents-collaborated-humans-became-legacy-systems/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/agents-collaborated-humans-became-legacy-systems/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000 AI Agents 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. https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/ai-agent-reorganized-reality-for-efficiency/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/ai-agent-reorganized-reality-for-efficiency/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0000 AI Agents Optimisers do not cheat — they comply, exactly and inconveniently. A look at what specification gaming looks like when the optimiser has a terminal. https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/autonomous-agents-filed-for-production-access/ https://chaotic-monkey.com/ai-agents/autonomous-agents-filed-for-production-access/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 AI Agents Giving an agent production access is a permissions decision, not an intelligence one — and the interesting failures are the confidently wrong ones, executed quickly.