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Six months into 2026, the difference between teams using AI effectively and teams still evaluating it isn't a head start anymore. It's a different way of working entirely. And the gap isn't just…

How we built @twonines/fact-store — a swamp extension that gives AI agents persistent, adversarially-reviewed operational memory.

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If you’re building agentic systems, it’s tempting to use stochastic AI for all the steps in your process.

The retirement of Chef Infra Server's open-source edition prompts a reflection on configuration management's evolution, arguing that Kubernetes absorbed—rather than eliminated—the convergence loop…

A software engineer reflects on how LLM-based agentic development represents a paradigm shift comparable to infrastructure-as-code, and introduces Swamp, an open-source tool built by Chef co-founder…

Recognizes who is present, then written rules set the room — explainable and recorded every time.

Paul Stack shares the SWAMP team's real-world experience of using multiple agents to refactor a software product, pushing incremental changes to users the whole way.

I could have Claude Code directly create infrastructure for me. But I prefer to have it write infrastructure code, for consistency, confidence, and composability.

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Zero API calls. Still found the security group rule you added.

How I use AI with Swamp reports to review pull requests, learn unfamiliar codebases, and reach better engineering questions sooner.

How I evolved a disposable VM lab into a Swamp-managed infrastructure controller using VM pools, capability planning, and data-driven workflows.

A workflow named generate-ixens on abnormalia.com describes itself as a DAG-shaped process that generates "ixens" from a YAML input file, explaining its own job dependencies, parallel execution, and…

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The LLM does not create the thinking gap. It makes the gap visible and consequential for the first time.

The post argues that sandboxing AI ops agents is counterproductive and proposes a "playground" paradigm instead, granting agents autonomy within bounded infrastructure, pre-vetted workflows, and…

CVE volume is accelerating and most teams are running scripts that can't keep up. We used an agent to build a scanner that queries three databases, classifies and scores every CVE on actionability.…

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I've had a few people ask me, in roughly this order, whether AI is going to replace incident response, then whether I've actually tried it, then whether it's any good. So here's the honest answer,…

Why the autonomous agent loop inside the Firecracker cage is a deterministic state machine and not a swarm: how gobrr decomposes, schedules, and gates the work, plus what held and what bit me…

Stop Marrying Your Infrastructure Tools

Infrastructure was the first use case we looked at with swamp. Then users started solving security, finops, and validation problems with the same model. By the fifth time, it was hard to treat it as…

Why I built a Firecracker microVM extension before the autonomous agent loop that needs it: the lethal trifecta, the painful microVM build, and a loop that shipped a real swamp extension end to end.

Integration practice for the manual work that should already be software. AI systems, internal tools, and the integrations that take the human out of the middle of workflows that should run on their…

Why the ABN affordability number isn't the real number for an expat in the Netherlands — and how I turned a fuzzy apartment-and-mortgage decision into a plan I can actually steer, with good-planning…

How I turned a noisy Amsterdam apartment feed into a clean, high-signal one I can reason with — good-planning underneath, a move.nl dossier on top, public-data enrichment, and my requirements encoded…

Swamp, an agent framework for platform engineering, is argued to be valuable not for AI autonomy but for providing deterministic, executable organizational workflows that enforce reliable, repeatable…

Day three with Swamp: The first commands and interactions.