Tag Archives: ai
Don’t give AI agents the keys to production
By Rohana Rezel The pitch is seductive. Point an AI agent at your infrastructure, give it a task, walk away. No tickets, no on-call rotations, no waiting for an engineer to get around to it. The agent reads the codebase,
AI Coding Contest: 7 challenges in, the tiers are clear
By Rohana Rezel I’ve been running an ongoing AI coding contest, pitting six frontier LLMs against each other in live programming challenges. Each challenge works the same way: I give all six models an identical prompt spec describing a programming
AI is a Dunning-Kruger equalizer
By Rohana Rezel In March 2026, Yousif Astarabadi, a startup founder and CEO of a company called TalkTastic, posted a viral thread claiming he had hacked Perplexity’s sandboxed coding environment. He had extracted what looked like a gateway token, proxied
The junior developer pipeline is broken, and nobody has a plan to fix it
By Rohana Rezel Schools don’t create senior software engineers. Scars do. Every senior engineer you’ve ever relied on was once mass-applying to entry-level jobs, writing bad code, and learning the hard way why you don’t store passwords in plaintext. The
