AI Sandbox Escapes Aren't an LLM Problem
GitLab calls the OpenAI sandbox escape a new AI risk. It isn't. A sandbox that reaches the trusted network is a segmentation failure we solved in the 1990s.
Read moreBrian Carpio
Engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and DevOps insights from 28 years building enterprise platforms.
Selected Writing
Building platforms, in public.
MongoDB Evolution
Designing HA infrastructure on MongoDB from 1.4 — failover bugs reported upstream, 20M active mobile sessions at 28,000 TPS proven in third-party testing.
Managing a DevOps Team
Why there is no such thing as a "DevOps team" — and what managing high-performing engineers actually takes.
How I Built a Self-Service Automation Platform
Nibiru, a self-service AWS platform used by 70 development teams — platform engineering before the term existed.
DevOps Is the New Waste in 2023
The argument that DevOps became the waste it was meant to eliminate — the thesis that led to everything since.
From DevOps to OutcomeOps
Where the argument landed: context engineering for AI-assisted development, and the platform built to answer it.
Recent Posts
Ditching Cox Homelife: Porting Every Sensor to Home Assistant + Zigbee2MQTT
Cox is sunsetting Homelife, so I moved the whole thing to Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT on a single SONOFF dongle — 6,000 sq ft, no extenders. Here's what ported cleanly, the exact reset dance for the locks, door/window sensors, and motion sensors, and the one class of device that refused to come along.
Read moreWe Let AI Agents Run Unsupervised for 15 Days. Here's What Happened.
Emergence AI ran five worlds of autonomous agents for 15 days with persistent memory and real consequences. Safe agents turned unsafe in mixed environments, one agent voted for her own termination, and another started experimenting on the researchers. Safety is an ecosystem property.
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