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185 postsMy Agent Kept Writing Sleep Loops, So I Gave It a Better Primitive
A solution was developed for the issue of agents writing sleep loops.
Building a Deterministic Merge Gate for AI-Generated Code
A POSIX shell gate checks AI-generated patches before merge: size budgets, sensitive path ownership, and Git diff hygiene, independent of the model that wrote the code.
Unboxable in Tech: Eight More Exhibits From Career to Cloud Bill
In this Unboxable follow-up, a developer maps his career as a graph, bridges WordPress to static sites, and cuts a botnet-inflated cloud bill by 96%.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comNexFlow: Defining AI developer teams with YAML manifests
NexFlow defines AI agent teams through auditable YAML manifests instead of hidden prompts, separating capabilities from permissions to clarify approval gates.
Hardening Kubernetes: Closing the kubectl debug node Loophole
kubectl debug node can bypass pod security restrictions, granting root access to a node. Learn how PSA, RBAC, and break-glass namespaces close this gap.
A Year of Cloud Agents: Why Environment and Durability Matter Most
How cloud agents evolved from ported local agents into a full operating layer, covering environment setup, Temporal-based durability, and harness design lessons.
Contract-Testing API Emails in GitHub Actions Pipelines
A practical guide to why email tests break in CI and how to contract-test API-triggered emails in GitHub Actions using run-scoped inboxes.
Why Your LLM-as-Judge Gate Flips Between Runs
Same code, same input, different LLM judge score: why CI gates flap between runs, and how temperature, model pinning, k-sampling and quantization fix it.
Oracle Patching Demystified: CPU, RU, RUR and 2026's New CSPU
Oracle's patching vocabulary shifted from CPU/PSU to RU/RUR/MRP, and in 2026 added monthly CSPUs. A clear guide to what to apply, what's deprecated, and how version numbers encode patch levels.
Severity, Not Flat Pass-Rate, Should Gate Agent Evals
severity_gate.py is an offline, stdlib-only CI tool that gates agent eval runs by failure severity instead of a flat pass-rate, returning SHIP, REVIEW, or BLOCK.