I keep seeing the same pitch from companies looking to cut headcount: bring in AI, reduce the team, let the tool do what the people used to do. I think that’s backwards, and I think it’s going to bite the companies that do it. AI isn’t a replacement for skilled people. It’s a force multiplier for them. Those are very…
I was in a meeting a few days ago when a colleague brought up something she’d been reading about. The gist of it: companies using AI to speed up development are shipping product faster than ever, but the bug counts are climbing right along with it. Faster code, more breakage. That seemed to be the going narrative. I pushed back…
TL;DR A completely unrelated, already-reviewed feature branch quietly broke every deployment to production for most of a working day. Not because its own code was wrong, but because of how our platform’s config-style metadata (permission sets, layouts) gets deployed as whole files instead of diffs. The kicker: while this was happening, several other legitimate deploys succeeded and posted green checkmarks…
TL;DR A Salesforce automation responsible for creating a downstream record silently stopped working for a subset of incoming records — no errors, no failed jobs, nothing in any log. The incident involved a flow that had been deliberately deactivated months earlier in favor of a replacement, and that replacement had an unrelated timing bug that let records slip through without…
TL;DR A WordPress site I run on a small AWS box got hacked through a core vulnerability I hadn’t patched yet. What started as “the site won’t load” turned into a multi-hour mess involving a botched update, some rogue admin accounts, a handful of disguised backdoors, and the thing that actually made this hard: a background process that kept quietly…