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Your AI Doesn't Need 1 Million Context. It Needs to Forget Better.
My agent became less reliable after a few hundred thousand tokens. The fix was to remove old noise and keep a smaller, useful working history.

The 1986 Airline Writing Standard Your AI Docs Need
The aircraft-maintenance English standard from 1986 is still one of the best cages for agent-written docs.

AI Can Write the Code. You Still Have to Guide the App.
Feature lists are not specs. How I think about steering Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex so you get an app you can keep, not a demo that dies on user two.

Building floci-ctf: A Hardened AWS Emulator for Cloud Security CTFs
I wanted an AWS emulator that behaved more like the real cloud. Here's why I forked Floci and the security improvements that became floci-ctf.

Breaking Bots: Investigating SQL Injection via AWS Lex Chatbots
I set out to test how secure chatbot integrations really are by probing an AWS Lex bot for SQL injection weaknesses.

CyberWarFare Labs MCRTA & MCBTA Review: Are These $7.50 Cloud Security Certifications Worth It?
I tried CyberWarFare Labs' MCRTA and MCBTA cloud security certifications for $7.50 each. I review their quality, difficulty, and value at that price.