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Modern software production lines.

A maintained reference on DevOps as the line, SRE as the work of running it, AI engineering as a reviewable tool, and platforms as the substrate beneath the whole system.

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The pillars of modern production.

Every article and note is filed under one of these pillars. The pillars are continuous references, not one-shot posts.

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  1. 01

    AI Engineering

    When Code Gets Cheap, Coordination Gets Expensive

    AI-assisted development is making software easier to generate, but not automatically easier to ship. The next bottleneck is engineering management: ownership, review, decision rights, platform maturity, and absorbing machine-rate work without creating human-rate chaos.
  2. 02

    AI Engineering

    AI Didn't Make Your Company Faster. It Made Your Failure Scalable.

    AI genuinely speeds up individual work. But an organization is not the sum of its productive individuals. When decision-making, ownership, review, integration, and trust stay slow, AI doesn't remove your bottlenecks. It makes them visible, and then scalable.
  3. 03

    AI Engineering

    Fail Fast, Consolidate Faster

    Modern organizations have become very good at trying new technology and much less disciplined at absorbing it. In the AI era, the risk is not experimentation itself, but experimentation without consolidation.

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  1. 01

    DevOps

    The Andon Cord Is a Reward Structure

    The interesting thing about an andon cord is not the cord. Pulling a cord is trivial. The interesting thing is the answer to the question: what happens to the worker who pulls it?
  2. 02

    AI Engineering

    Evals Are Tests

    The reluctance to call AI evaluation harnesses tests costs more than the renaming saves. Tests get reviewed, run in CI, and have an owner. Evals deserve the same treatment.
  3. 03

    DevOps

    Trunk-Based Development Is Not About the Trunk

    The criticism of long-lived branches is usually framed as a criticism of the branch. The actual problem is batch size. The trunk is just where batch size becomes visible.