The Promise None of Them Kept
Mark Burgess shipped CFEngine in 1993, formalized promise theory with Siri Fagernes around 2005, and published *In Search of Certainty* in 2015, but four generations of infrastructure tools—Chef, Pupp…
Mark Burgess shipped CFEngine in 1993, formalized promise theory with Siri Fagernes around 2005, and published *In Search of Certainty* in 2015, but four generations of infrastructure tools—Chef, Pupp…
A security team used an AI agent to build a CVE scanner that queries NVD, GitHub Advisory DB, and CISA KEV, classifies vulnerabilities by type, and scores actionability. The agent was removed from the…
Swamp, initially built for infrastructure automation, has evolved into a domain-agnostic automation primitive as users applied it to security scanning, cost analysis, and infrastructure validation. Th…
A developer used Claude Code to build an offline meeting transcriber that processes audio into Granola-style markdown notes entirely on a MacBook, ensuring sensitive meeting recordings never leave the…
GitHub has moved to per-token billing, ending the era of flat-rate pricing that absorbed AI agent inefficiency. A team of five developers using structured agent tooling spends $3,000 per month on AI c…