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The unbearable lightness of one more index (11 minute read)
Coding agents now produce competent PostgreSQL schemas, but they tend to stack indexes onto hot operational tables. In a measured support-ticket workload, extra indexes nearly doubled update time and WAL while increasing VACUUM work. Index review needs write-path evidence, HOT-update awareness, and usage counters, not just fast read plans.
Aug 27 | Blog
The Agentic Survival Guide: How Security and Marketing Leaders Can Learn to Trust AI Agents
AI agent traffic grew 7,851% in 2025. Security and marketing teams are both flying blind, and the fix runs through visibility, identity, and governance, in that order.
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Sep 14 | Tech
Where Has Construction Automation Been Successful? (20 minute read)
Construction is labor-intensive. There has, unsurprisingly, long been interest in automating the process to reduce the amount of labor required. However, automation has only been successful in tasks that can be done off-site in factories and on-site tasks that are extremely factory-like. Almost nothing outside of these two categories has succeeded.
Sep 14 | DevOps
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems (20 minute read)
Researchers investigating the May 2026 GemStuffer campaign attribute more than 2,000 malicious RubyGems package uploads to an OpenAI agent swarm based on package contents, naming patterns, and other public evidence. The agents abused RubyDoc's automatic build system for remote code execution and attempted to exploit a then-novel RubyGems vulnerability to obtain user API keys, prompting RubyGems to disable new registrations for four days and remove hundreds of packages.
Sep 14 | Marketing
Your playbook for LinkedIn ads that work (13 minute read)
Build LinkedIn ads around the buying journey. Use signals to target companies entering a buying window, then start with thought leadership before introducing case studies and offers. Retarget engaged prospects with native lead forms and qualify them with specific questions. Follow up within 5 minutes while interest is fresh, and use sales outcomes to refine targeting and messaging over time.
