In May 2016 I wrote a short post called Bots Club. One idea, one line: bots should and can work collaboratively as we humans do. Bot to bot, no human in the channel. I built three Hubot demos for my team — bots processing a ticket, bots handling an alert, bots watching cost — and … Continue reading Bots Club, Ten Years On: The Controls That Take It Into Production
I've spent the better part of a week living inside Kiro Crew — not just using it, but reading its installed source to understand how it actually works. This post is what I pieced together: a layer-by-layer unpacking of the architecture, from the surfaces you type into all the way down to the kiro-cli subprocess … Continue reading Inside Kiro Crew: How a Persistent AI Agent Actually Works
The week the frontier labs diverged: one paused to breathe, the other sprinted toward Wall Street — while the center of gravity in physical AI kept drifting east. Edition: August 15–21, 2026 | Read time: ~10 minutes | Sources reviewed: ~30 across 10 targeted searches Editorial note. The Anthropic and OpenAI revenue and valuation figures … Continue reading The AI Intelligence Report (August 15–21, 2026) — OpenAI Hits the Brakes, Anthropic Races to IPO, and China Owns the Robot Floor
If you run change data capture (CDC) out of PostgreSQL with AWS DMS, one component quietly holds the fate of your source database in its hands: the logical replication slot. Understand how the write-ahead log and slots interact, and you understand why disks fill, why CDC stalls, and how to fix it. TL;DR The WAL … Continue reading WAL, Replication Slots & AWS DMS: A PostgreSQL Deep Dive
The CloudBeaver ECS tasks started crash-looping yesterday. We spent a few hours debugging an intermittent "password authentication failed" error in CloudBeaver running on ECS with an RDS PostgreSQL backend. The root cause turned out to be an undocumented interaction between CloudBeaver's config parser and special characters in auto-generated passwords. Here's the full investigation. The Symptom … Continue reading CloudBeaver on ECS: Why Password Authentication Fails Intermittently
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