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If you’re still using “Third World” to describe countries in 2026, one of two things is true. You don’t know the history of the phrase. Or you do, and you’re comfortable with the hierarchy it carries. Neither is a good look. This isn’t political correctness. It’s accuracy. The term is factually obsolete, analytically useless, and encodes a set of assumptions […]
For the past decade, the holy grail of DevOps and platform engineering has been automation. We wrote bash scripts, compiled complex Jenkins pipelines, and eventually moved toward declarative states with Terraform or OpenTofu. Yet, even with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), a structural bottleneck remained: the human. Engineers still manually analyse logs, approve PRs, triage alerts, and decide when to scale […]
What the nine-second deletion reveals about where the agentic era is actually heading Nobody writes about the incidents where the agent behaved perfectly. I want to write about one of those now, because I think it is the most important category of failure that the current conversation about AI agents is almost entirely ignoring. An incident response agent, doing its […]
On 5 February 2008, Baxter International initiated the largest pharmaceutical recall in US history. 81 Americans were dead. Hundreds more had experienced anaphylaxis and cardiac events after routine intravenous heparin infusions. The FDA traced the contamination back to a manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China that its inspectors had never visited. The raw active pharmaceutical ingredient had been deliberately substituted with […]
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 […]
A control verification framework for cloud security and DevSecOps engineering In 1985, AECL engineers removed the physical interlocks from the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. The software was handling it. The hardware was redundant. Six patients were irradiated with doses up to 200 times the prescribed level. Three died. The machine reported no error each time. The engineers were not negligent. […]
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 […]
You’re mid-sentence. Someone cuts in. And instead of holding your ground, you say it. “Let me finish.” Weakness, announced out loud to everyone in the room. It’s a request dressed up as a command “Let me finish” is asking permission to speak. You’re appealing to someone else’s goodwill to reclaim ground that was already yours. Authority gets held. When you […]
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 […]