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This is a reply to twonines’ “What the Factory Forgets”. The post describes a factory: deterministic orchestration at the top, ephemeral AI at the leaves. The agents are caged and interchangeable; each one is spun up to produce a deterministic artifact, and then it is gone.
This is the story of how issue-lifecycle grew from a set of rails into swamp-go-brr — the prequel to the cage, the brain, and the ledger.
Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated summary of the design decisions and evolution of the Google Health data pipeline built with Swamp and Claude.
Here are three compute strategies, and the thing I actually felt watching them. For the whole LLM circus I did not pay much attention to Nvidia.
Companion to “Reading the board from the stands”. The short essay is about what it did to me. This is the working-out: three value chains at three altitudes — the maps and my thoughts.
Last post I built a cage — a Firecracker microVM to hold an agent I had let off the leash. This post is about what I put in it, and why the thing I put in it is a state machine and not a swarm.
Two of Simon Wardley’s predictions have sat on my map for years: that serverless was the next evolution of devops, and that conversational programming was the one after it.
I meant to buy a flat in my second year here. Then life had other plans. After a hard stretch I will not lay out in full — climbing out of something, mostly — came a year of just making things stable again, and then a year given over to the language.
The first night I got access to move.nl I spent four hours reading apartment listings and went to bed at one in the morning. I built a tool to watch the market so I do not have to.
Disclaimer: AI-generated setup guide for the JSCAD CAD pipeline. Tested on macOS, April 2026. What You Get A working pipeline: describe an object in plain text → Claude Code generates a JSCAD script → Swamp renders to STL → validator checks the geometry.
Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated summary of the design decisions and evolution of the JSCAD CAD generation system built with Swamp and Claude.
Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated log and summary of a session deploying Cozystack on a Talos cluster. All work was done in a background manner by claude-code and Swamp, and I only had to approve some steps here and there and add a hint about the ISO boot order issue.
Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated log and summary of a 10-hour attempt by claude-code and Swamp to virtualize macOS Tiger 10.4. Previously I had no experience running mac os in VM, nor did a I read guides, during the run I had to point claude to guides and reasonable attempts
I’ll never forget that feeling—ingesting millions of metrics into a tool like Grafana or Honeycomb for the first time. Before that, I was blind. I was guessing.
A recent post from System Initiative, “AI is an Amplifier, Why Engineers Need Better Foundations,” got me thinking about our industry workflow. You wonder why I love what they’re building?
The Genesis Engine: A Manifesto for the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle Introduction: The Old World Is Dead Saturday evening, September 20, 2025. I’m thinking about how we build.
A video from another era—2013, suddenly found me. Bryan Cantrill talking with the unshakeable confidence of someone who hasn’t yet lived through the next decade.
Last year, I went to FOSDEM and Config Management Camp as a place to meet colleagues I hadn’t seen for a few years after moving to the Netherlands.
Recently I stumbled upon that talk https://youtu.be/3jJ1GhGkLY0 about reinventing k8s by removing unneeded docker images, and that lead to intresting consequience - They were able to create Modal an GPU serverless platform.
In thouse turbulent times it feels like another tectonic shift is happening on a devops landscape, so I’m wondering what would future hold and what will be important, like was important more than 10 years ago when devops established itself.
I was asked by a friend to advise him a devops roadmap, all the ones that I found on internet were incomplete or i just didnt like them, so after few months of thinking about that topic, and todays nudge in chat from another soon-to-be devops about roadmap.
I’m Sergey want to talk or work with me send a mail to i@ domain name of that site My interests are Devops, Wardley Maps, Strategy and AI