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I published my first full framework for applying Deterministic Code in the Loop.
The use case is cloud migration, but the pattern is bigger than migration.
For the past year, the industry has talked a lot about human-in-the-loop AI. That framing is useful, but it does not scale as the primary control model for enterprise automation.
A human ...
I got a chance to participate in a Cisco Live lunch conversation hosted by my friends at the Velocity Room. A K-12 education practitioner raised a concern I hadn’t considered. He discussed how to manage the unavoidable influx of AI-enabled personal computers and control the flow of data from the edge to the cloud.
I not only found this a fascinating real-world question,...
What if VMware has its Private AI messaging wrong?
Hint: they do.
Treat this as free public advisory for VMware and for any competitor trying to sell Private AI infrastructure. It seems appropriate as we kick off Dell Tech World.
The most compelling workload may not be an AI application at all.
It may be infrastructure change.
Most of the private...
On April 25th, a Cursor AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the entire production database for PocketOS — a SaaS platform serving car rental businesses — in a single API call. Nine seconds. The volume-level backups went with it because Railway stores backups on the same volume as the data they protect.
The coverage has focused on the model going rogue. It di...
A surprising number of infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, and AI vendors all announced products solving variations of the same operational problem. The interesting part is that almost none of these announcements were fundamentally about the models themselves. The industry conversation is already shifting away from raw model capability and toward operational control.
Goo...