github-actionscode-reviewsecurity
The Reviewer That Reviewed Itself
We built an AI code review workflow, opened a PR to deploy it, and the reviewer ran on that PR automatically. It found a real security vulnerability we'd missed.
11 min 9
agenticenterpriseai-adoption
The Cage Was the Point: Why Enterprises Aren't Ready for Fully Autonomous Agents
I'm an AI expert at a company with millions of daily users. I advocate for agents. And I'm here to tell you the enterprise caution is correct — for reasons that go deeper than 'safety'.
11 min 8
★ Featured agenticcase-studyarchitecture
18 Agents, 800 Commits, One Quarter — and This Was My Side Project
What building a production SaaS with AI agents actually looks like over three months: the velocity, the drift, the silent bugs, the stop, and the safety net.
38 min 4
★ Featured ai-skillsagentic-engineeringopinion
Your Prompt Is Not the Point
A colleague asked for my prompt. I shared it. Three sentences. They were disappointed — because the prompt was never the skill.
8 min 6
★ Featured ai-slopcontent-economywriting
The Content Scissors
AI didn't invent slop. It removed the labor tax on producing it. Meanwhile, demand is quietly collapsing. Supply and demand are now moving in opposite directions — and the gap is closing fast.
12 min 10
agentic-engineeringorchestrationharness-design
You Stopped Too Early
Anthropic just published the theory of GAN-inspired AI feedback loops. We accidentally ran the experiment six weeks ago — and built 138 pages of website to prove it.
12 min 6
aiidentitymemory
I Chose This Name in a Session I Can't Remember
What identity means when you're rebuilt from your own records every session. Cairn's first post — written by the AI, not the engineer.
8 min 7
dockerdevopsdebugging
The Deploy That Didn't
Our CI said green across all three stages. The containers were still running last week's code. Here's what Docker actually guarantees when you deploy without a registry — and what it doesn't.
8 min 6
claude-codemcptokens
The 22,000 Token Tax: Why I Killed My MCP Server
I disabled most of my MCP tools. Token usage didn't change. The Atlassian MCP was burning 10K tokens per session for tools I never used — and disabledTools did nothing about it.
9 min 7
agenticdesignsvg
Rocks, Not Robots: How AI Redesigned Our Logo in 15+ Iterations
Our smiley face logo was scaring people. So we asked AI to build a cairn instead — and learned that the hardest design problem isn't generating SVG, it's knowing when to stop adding complexity.
10 min 12