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Agents Need the Principle of Least Privilege Too
The principle of least privilege is one of the oldest, most boring, and most thoroughly settled ideas in computer security. Grant a process exactly …
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Ship the Copilot With the Boilerplate
Today we published boilerworks-django-nextjs-copilotkit, the 27th template in the Boilerworks catalogue and the first to ship with an agentic in-app …
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Spec-First Engineering: The Most Important Skill of the Decade
The most common failure mode we see in teams adopting agentic engineering is not a tooling failure. It is not a model failure. It is not even, most of …
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SOC 2 in the Age of Agents: What Your Auditor Has Not Figured Out Yet
SOC 2 was designed in an era when systems were operated by humans and changes to those systems were made by other humans. The control framework …
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Vendor Lock-In Is Back. It Is Just AI-Shaped Now.
For about a decade, the conventional wisdom on vendor lock-in was that the industry had mostly solved it. Containers, Kubernetes, open APIs, …
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DORA Metrics Cannot Measure What Agents Do
The DORA metrics – deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recover, change failure rate – were the most useful framework …
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MCP Is Not a Standard Yet. It Is a Conversation.
Model Context Protocol – MCP – is the most useful working agreement to emerge from the agentic tooling space in the last two years. We use …
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Build vs Buy vs Generate: A Decision Tree for 2026
The build-vs-buy question has been part of software leadership for forty years. It used to have two answers and a defensible heuristic for each: build …
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Your Data Platform Is the Bottleneck. Your AI Strategy Is Not.
A common pattern, observed across roughly thirty AI engagements we have been part of in the last two years: the client believes they have an AI …
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Staff Augmentation Was a Bug, Not a Feature
Staff augmentation was the dominant consulting model of the last decade for one reason: hiring full-time engineers was too slow and too binding for …
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The Big Three Consultancies Are Selling You PowerPoint and Calling It Strategy
There is a slide we have seen, in some form, in roughly forty pitches from McKinsey, Deloitte, BCG, Accenture, and the rest of the cohort that calls …
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The Procurement Team Cannot Buy What It Cannot Specify
A procurement team is, structurally, a comparison engine. Vendors arrive with proposals. Procurement evaluates them against a specification. The …
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