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Safety and Governance As enterprises rush to deploy autonomous AI agents, the critical missing piece has been robust AI governance and security. Without strict guardrails, an LLM with API access is a ticking compliance time bomb. This is the story of how one visionary architect, Steven Craig Bar Yakov Gindi, recognized this massive vulnerability and …
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By a Senior DevOps Engineer who thought nginx would be enough. The Problem Nobody Is Talking About AI trading agents are going live. Right now. Not in some distant future — today, LLMs are executing real trades through APIs like Alpaca, making decisions at machine speed, and holding accountability to exactly nobody. I’ve spent years …
Building a Two-Way MITM Audit Ledger for AI Agents The Mission: A Tamper-Proof System of Record AI agents are unpredictable. When an agent interacts with a financial API like Alpaca.markets, you need more than just a “feeling” that it’s working—you need an immutable, two-way audit trail. I set out on a learning adventure to build …
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AI Agents Are Powerful — and Sometimes Completely Out of Control After more than twenty years in DevOps and infrastructure engineering, I’m used to systems failing in predictable ways. Hardware dies. Networks flap. Someone forgets to rotate a token. Fine. But AI agents? They fail in ways that make you stop and wonder how anyone …
During an Interview as a Senior Devops, My Apple Watch said “Buzz buzz, your hearts racing! Are you OK? Should I text your son and wife ?” The interview might have been successful and I might continue the process, I might have been correct for an important security question that they claimed I was mistaken! …
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LLMs do not take into account the entirety of a project LLMs struggle with real-world deployments, consistently forgetting ~20% of critical components. This became clear while setting up @Istio on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Kiali observability. Following my thoughts on DevOps interviews and whiteboard coding tests (see link below), I’m now seeing the flip side …
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Developer Hiring Managers that dont understand Devops As a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience I recently faced an interviewer who was genuinely shocked that I couldn’t find the missing number in an array of 1 to 100. Yes, really. This happened in 2025, when GitHub Copilot could solve this in seconds. Let’s …
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I was recently on the job search Market in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem seeking a job as a Senior Devops. I found a great job At Coro Cybersecurity Another company whose name I do not remember. I do remember that it was high floor and had a great play room for kids! They gave me …
Raspberry Pi Kubernetes installation with Cilum CNI Network Plugin.
A Poem about an AI from a distant place that gets confused. Of course the image is from Dall-e 2 After almost 3 years at https://datagen.tech I am finally trying to learn how to use pytorch. I am using noise sound files to create a model, then retesting the original files on the against the …
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I had a discussion with ChatGpt where it denied that Google Search results for tech searches are constantly deteriorating Write for me instructions to install the following commands on Amazon Linux 2 for both AMD64 and ARM64 write them with Google SEO in mind so that search engine will put these at the top for …
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Introduction to the Dicussion about apt and yum I had the following chat after spending time getting a Rocky Linux to act as a Bind DNS Slave to a ubuntu 18 master. I did not discuss the hienous use of Master and Slave, instead I concentrated only on the differences between apt and yum which …
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Microsoft Edge is WAY to spammy and confusing to replace cleaner Chrome I have decided to open Chrome on Windows 11 instead of Edge. I was psyched to use edge, but opening a new tab is way to confusing. When you open a new tab in Edge it opens CRAP news page with spammy ads. …