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AI Was Supposed to Mean Working Less. For Some Developers, It's Doing the Opposite.

AI coding tools were supposed to mean developers work less. On a recent webinar recorded with LeadDev, senior engineering manager Vernon put words to something a lot of teams are quietly noticing instead: “It’s concerning because it’s the opposite of what was promised. We were supposed to be working less.”

TLS 1.2 isn't end of life, but it will be soon

You’re probably running a TLS configuration that the IETF says is “non-conformant”. But you didn’t do anything wrong. In July, the IETF published a pair of RFCs that took away three of TLS 1.2’s key exchange methods and froze the rest of it. The phrase they used is MUST NOT, the strongest thing a specification is allowed to say. Nginx, Apache, and Windows Server all ship with those key exchanges turned on by default. Nothing breaks tomorrow.

AI Agent Builder: Create Agents That Fit Your IT Environment

AI agents are quickly becoming part of the enterprise automation conversation because, among other things, they help teams move faster. But there is a major difference between an AI agent that sounds useful in a demo and an AI agent that is ready for production. Production agents need scope. They need to know what they own, which systems they can touch, which workflows they can run, which teams they support, and where the boundaries are.

Amazon AI Code Rewriting Gone Wrong!

In 2025 Amazon tasked Ai to find efficiencies. It definitely did. The AI went rogue and started deleting files and canceling programs. It was efficient. Less code, less products, more efficient. Adam mentions, dont burn the house down to reduce the electric bill. ShipTalk breaks down the biggest shifts in AI, DevOps, and software delivery. No hype, no vendor gloss. Stop talking, start shipping.

The Governance Blind Spot: Vendor Lock-In in the AI Development Era

When we launched our Governance Gap series, we set out to explore how the explosion of AI-assisted engineering changes the risk profile for modern software organizations. We looked at the rise of The New Software Creator and analyzed why deployment governance is what keeps teams safe when code production accelerates. We also mapped out the realities of security at scale and defined who owns governance accountability.

Shipped: Personalized cost access, powered by SSO

Instead of building a separate role for every team, region, or department, admins can create a single role that automatically personalizes access for each user based on their SSO attributes. Someone moves teams or a new group gets created, and the new access takes effect at their next login with no CloudZero configuration. As AI spend grows, more companies are looking to give teams visibility into their own AI costs without exposing every individual’s usage across the org.

Splunk Pricing in 2026: Full Cost Breakdown (and How to Cut It)

Splunk charges you in one of two ways: by how much data you send it each day, or by how much compute your searches and dashboards use. Security teams pay for both the platform and Splunk Enterprise Security, the app that turns Splunk into a SIEM, which is priced separately on top. This guide breaks down every part of a 2026 Splunk bill, works through a real, sourced pricing example, and lays out the ways to bring the number down, including the one lever many teams overlook.

DRIVE vs DX Core 4: What each framework measures and when to use them

Engineering organizations spent the past decade learning to measure developer and team productivity. Measurement of the organization itself did not keep pace. Now that agents are responsible for writing most of the code across many engineering organizations, it’s more important than ever to have an effective methodology for measuring productivity.

Chaos Monkey Won't Find Your Bug

We shipped a chaos feature that never caused any chaos. Our mock server has had a fault-injection effect for years with a straightforward job: withhold the response entirely and see whether the caller copes. Last week I audited it against the actual code path. It had never withheld anything. The handler returned early without writing a response. Go’s net/http then did what it is designed to do, which is synthesize a 200 OK and flush the recorded body.