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I built an operating system for my AI, then deleted most of itFour months of AI configuration grew into a five-folder system with version control and a nightly linter. Then Anthropic published new context-engineering rules, I audited what the thing actually believed, and cut long-term memory by 82 percent.aiworkflow· 2026-09-04 · 6 minEight subscriptions, nine days: what a tenant migration actually costsTwo people moved just under 5,000 Azure resources into a different tenant. Production took two and a half hours because Dev took two days. The landmines, the verification discipline, and why the first environment is research and development, not delivery.azuremigrationterraformidentity· 2026-08-21 · 6 minGatekeeper: one required check to rule them allWe deleted the pipeline checks from branch protection and merging got stricter. A convention-based PR gate for when your checks run outside GitHub, and the seven design decisions behind it.githubplatformgovernance· 2026-07-10 · 5 minRenovate at scale: what we run across 50+ reposThe preset architecture behind one opinionated Renovate configuration across 50+ repos: two composed presets, a 14-day soak window, provider grouping, and the tradeoffs.renovateterraform· 2026-05-29 · 8 minThe 14-day soak windowWhy we deliberately wait 14 days before adopting any new dependency version, how security advisories bypass the hold, and what the delay actually costs.renovategovernance· 2026-05-22 · 2 minHow AI grows meCoding gives you reps every day. Architecture and leadership do not. Thirteen architecture katas, a leadership trainer that role-plays the hard conversation back at you, and a Friday audit that refuses the phrase "good week" without evidence.aiworkflow· 2026-05-15 · 7 minHow AI knows meFour layers that make an AI assistant useful across four roles: a learned-instincts loop, a brand-voice profile built from 300 Slack messages, auto-detected operating modes, and the ten guardrail sections nobody talks about.aiworkflow· 2026-04-27 · 5 minAutomating GitHub repository management with TerraformOne JSON file lists the repositories. Terraform decides their settings, team permissions, and branch protection. Plus the honest part: what the provider cannot do and how we work around it.githubterraformgovernance· 2025-09-05 · 6 minAutomating GitHub team management with Terraform and Azure ADGitHub teams that mirror Azure AD groups, synced on a schedule by Terraform. Group discovery by prefix, nested-group filtering, and the email-to-username lookup problem nobody warns you about.githubterraformidentity· 2025-08-19 · 6 min