Echoes from the Shell

Update (April 5, 2026, ~09:40 CEST): The BSI has fixed the issue.

I’ve spent the last few months living inside the rapidly expanding universe of AI coding agents.

Just over a week ago I wrote about why I built OCI Image Explorer.

“Can you confirm that our production container images have valid SBOMs, signatures, and attestations?”

When I first started experimenting with AI-assisted development — and was listening to the echo chamber of how “AI will replace human developers soon” — I couldn’t quite agree with the hype, but I also couldn’t fully explain why.

Part 5: Feedback Loops Beyond Boundaries – When Customers Are in the Loop Link to heading Feedback Doesn’t Stop at the Org Chart Link to heading Up to now, we’ve talked about feedback loops inside the walls of your startup: devs to PMs, QA to engineers, l…

Part 4: Measure, Improve, Repeat – Using Golden Signals and DORA Metrics to Drive Growth Link to heading From Gut Feel to Data-Driven Improvement Link to heading In the whirlwind of startup life, it’s easy to judge your engineering performance by gut feel:

Part 3: When Production Speaks, Listen – Structured Logging for Rapid Debugging Link to heading Structured logs (in a searchable JSON-like format) turn your production into a story you can read.

Part 2: Preview Environments – Early Feedback, No Surprises Link to heading Spinning up a full preview environment for every feature branch gives teams a crystal ball – see into the future of a release before it hits production.

Startups live and die by how quickly they can ship and how reliably they can execute.

Businesses as Layered Feedback Systems Link to heading Think of your SaaS business not as a rigid hierarchy, but as a layered system of ongoing conversations and feedback cycles.

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