The Hidden Layers
Exploring the intersection of offensive security, cloud architecture, and the leadership principles needed to secure modern enterprises.
AI and Computer Security: The Impending Doompocalypse
Wall Street thinks AI just made security vendors obsolete. After 25 years in the trenches, I think they've got it exactly backwards. Finding vulnerabilities has always been the easy part. The hard part is fixing them at scale, under pressure.
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AI and Computer Security: The Impending Doompocalypse
Wall Street thinks AI just made security vendors obsolete. After 25 years in the trenches, I think they've got it exactly backwards. Finding vulnerabilities has always been the easy part. The hard part is fixing them at scale, under pressure.
Mind your Context
I was losing 47% of my context window to overhead before Claude did any real work. Here's how I dropped that to under 1%.
Make Your Homelab AI Agent Ready
Transform your homelab into an AI-ready environment where Claude Code can safely manage infrastructure, deploy applications, and write verified code.
True Agent Swarming in Claude Code
Claude Code's native sub-agents can't compact their own context. Here's how I built true agent swarming using headless instances and an orchestrator pattern.
Make your Web Apps 100x More Usable with UXCanvas & Claude Code
Here's the uncomfortable truth: AI coding tools are fluent in logic but illiterate in experience. You can't feel the interface until the code is done. You've burned three days on backend architecture, database schemas, API endpoints, and deployment configs. Then you finally see the UI. It's wrong. The user flow is awkward. The data you're surfacing isn't what users actually need. The interaction patterns don't match how people actually think. Now you're refactoring everything. Again. Twenty-t
The AI Coding Workflow That Feels Like Cheating
I've built a spec-driven workflow using Claude Slash Commands that mirror the best SDLC processes.
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