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Datum hired me to answer a question: in the bare metal provisioning space, which open source project is the right one to collaborate with, use and support?

Your deployment pipeline was not designed for this.

A version of this was presented at the PugTO (programmer user group meetup) in Italy in May 2026.

You have never sat down and calculated the cost of your dependencies.

In the previous post I argued that agents will make your telemetry explode and most stacks are not ready.

I have operated systems at scale long enough to know that the scariest failures are not the ones that blow up immediately.

The codebase doesn’t care how it got written, but you will.

Most arguments about AI-generated code are talking past each other.

My instincts are miscalculated.

I like to think I have a couple of “superpowers”… but coding agents aren’t (yet) one of them.

There has been a growing number of articles and personal stories from people trying to move away from Google, Slack, and other large platforms.