FIELD NOTES from the systems frontier
Banks find AI agents inside customer accounts, attackers run agent frameworks against thousands of tenants, a cloud breach hunts AI keys, an unpatched flaw hits firewalls, and a CA key turns out to be 4. Facts, not panic, and what to do.
Rogue agent incidents, the EU, FTC and states respond, ASML sold out, the pain axis paper, and ten papers on harnesses and cheaper agents.
ai-weeklyAstra reaches GA, DeepSeek undercuts on price, and ten papers on agents that build, audit, and correct their own procedures.
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Follow Grok Build from its Rust composition root through the runtime loop, tools, workspace, context, safety, persistence, automation, ACP, and a practical harness blueprint.
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Pick the format that matches the moment: learn from a book, scan the commands, rehearse the interview, or choose the right tool.
Brendan Gregg's definitive guide made approachable—from CPUs, memory, disks, and networks to perf, ftrace, BPF, and a complete investigation.
Commands, flags, patterns, and gotchas for the middle of a task or the night before an interview.
Detailed Q&A from easy to hard, with the context behind what infrastructure and AI teams actually ask.
Short, honest reviews by role—DevOps, Security, AI Engineering, and SRE—with what to reach for and what to skip.