Chapter 01: The day infrastructure started operating itself The pager screamed at 3:47 AM, a jagged, electronic intrusion that sliced through the silence of the bedroom. Marcus was awake before he was conscious. His hand reflexively snatched the phone from the nightstand, his thumb already swiping to acknowledge the alert. PagerDuty. Critical. Production. He sat up, the cold air hitting his skin, […]
Between June 1985 and January 1987, six patients received radiation doses between 40 and 200 times the prescribed therapeutic level from a machine that had been certified, reviewed, and considered an improvement over every model before it. At least three died from their injuries. The Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s Therac-25 reported no error each time. Operators, following training, pressed […]
AI, cognition, and the governance crisis nobody is building for Bola Ogunlana | Cockpit to Cloud | May 2025 | 12 min read Somewhere in the next decade, governments are going to discover they’ve been managing the wrong population. The one they were built for followed instructions. The one arriving will not. AI is changing cognition at scale. Peer-reviewed research […]
Is AI the savior of DevSecOps or the fastest path to total chaos? This week, the community erupted over AI’s reckless sprint into pipelines while supply chains bleed from avoidable hacks. Forget the polished trends – let’s rip the Band-Aid off: most teams are sleepwalking into disaster, and it’s time to call out the bullshit. AI Agents: Genius or Glorified […]
Most people using AI are getting worse at thinking. A study from MIT’s Media Lab has the data to prove it. But one system, pairing Google’s Gemini with NotebookLM, is designed to do the opposite: amplify your intelligence rather than quietly erode it. This is not another tool comparison article. It is a framework question: are you using AI as a […]
Platform Engineering · AI Operations · AWS Your Next On-Call Engineer Never Sleeps. It Also Never Misses the Root Cause. AWS DevOps Agent hit General Availability on 31 March 2026. The preview data is striking: 75% lower MTTR, 94% root cause accuracy, resolution times compressed from hours to minutes. Here is what every platform engineer and SRE leader needs to […]
On March 31, Anthropic shipped a source map file to npm. Not a minor config snippet. Not a stale API key. 512,000 lines of TypeScript. 1,900 files. 44 hidden feature flags. Their entire agentic harness. The crown jewels of Claude Code. Reconstructed and forked 82,000+ times before lunch. Anthropic scrambled. They pulled the npm package. Filed DMCA takedowns against GitHub […]
The aviation analogy was a beginning. It gave platform engineering one axis of the AI adoption problem: how to hand authority from humans to machines without catastrophe. But it is not enough. Five other industries navigated the same inflection point, and each left a different blueprint that DevOps has not yet read. In my previous post I drew on aviation’s […]
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence, the gap between a hobbyist using a chatbot and a professional engineer deploying production-ready automations is widening. While many are content with basic prompting, the real value lies in orchestration, security, and local integration. This is where OpenClaw changes the game. OpenClaw isn’t just another AI tool; it is a comprehensive framework […]
We Tried to Kill Resonance — Here’s What We Learned | Bola Thinks Bola Thinks Product Strategy // Feb 2026 Devil’s Advocate Session We Tried to Kill Resonance.Here’s What We Learned. 15 February 2026 Product Strategy ~8 min read I put a new product idea — Resonance, an adaptive biometric ambient environment engine — in front of a ruthless VC […]