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AWS Frontier Agents: What $50/Hour Pen Testing and $30/Hour SRE Means for Platform Teams

AWS just launched two autonomous AI agents — Security Agent and DevOps Agent — and they're both generally available now. These aren't chatbots with polished wrappers. They're persistent, autonomous systems that run for hours or days without human oversight, doing work that previously required dedicated teams.

Michael Tuszynski

Apr 05, 2026 3 min read

The systems behind enterprise AI adoption success - IBM

Why Enterprise AI Infrastructure is Going Hybrid – and Geographic

Enterprise AI has an 80% failure rate. The models aren't the problem. What is?

Beyond Comprehension Debt: Why Context Architecture Is the Real AI Moat

Why does nobody teach the infrastructure problems that destroy developer productivity before production breaks

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AWS Frontier Agents: What $50/Hour Pen Testing and $30/Hour SRE Means for Platform Teams

Michael Tuszynski

Apr 05, 2026 3 min read

The systems behind enterprise AI adoption success - IBM

Everyone's Buying GPUs. Almost Nobody's Ready to Feed Them. The enterprise AI conversation has a blind spot the size of a data center. Every budget meeting I've sat in over the past 18 months has the same shape: GPU allocation gets 70% of the

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 28, 2026 4 min read

Why Enterprise AI Infrastructure is Going Hybrid – and Geographic

The Cloud Repatriation Nobody Expected: Why Enterprise AI Is Pulling Compute Back from the Cloud The original pitch for cloud computing was simple: stop buying servers, rent someone else's. For most workloads over the past fifteen years, that trade worked. But AI infrastructure has rewritten the economics, and

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 25, 2026 4 min read

Enterprise AI has an 80% failure rate. The models aren't the problem. What is?

Most enterprise AI projects die quietly. No dramatic failure, no post-mortem email chain. They just... stop. The prototype gets a demo, leadership nods approvingly, and then six months later the Slack channel goes silent and the budget gets reallocated. Roughly 80% of enterprise AI projects fail — double the failure rate

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 21, 2026 4 min read

Beyond Comprehension Debt: Why Context Architecture Is the Real AI Moat

Addy Osmani dropped a piece last week that's been making the rounds: "Comprehension Debt — The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code." His thesis is sharp. Teams are shipping AI-generated code faster than anyone can understand it. Tests pass, PRs look clean, and nobody notices the growing gap

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 18, 2026 8 min read

Why does nobody teach the infrastructure problems that destroy developer productivity before production breaks

The Production Gap: Why Nobody Teaches the Infrastructure That Actually Matters Every bootcamp, CS program, and YouTube tutorial series teaches you how to build features. Almost none of them teach you what happens when those features meet real traffic, real failure modes, and real users who do things you never

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 17, 2026 5 min read

Cloud infrastructure suffers AI growing pains

The AI CapEx Arms Race Is Coming for Your Cloud Bill The three major cloud providers are spending money like it's going out of style. Oracle is financing a $300 billion deal with OpenAI through $50 billion in stock sales and debt. Google just pledged to double its

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 15, 2026 4 min read

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Your Platform Team Needs an Agent Policy — Yesterday

On March 3rd, an attacker compromised the Xygeni GitHub Action by poisoning a mutable tag. Every CI runner referencing xygeni/xygeni-action@v5 quietly started executing a reverse shell to a C2 server. The exposure window lasted a week. 137+ repositories were affected. The root cause wasn't exotic. A

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 14, 2026 4 min read

The Edge Intelligence Gap: How AI Inference at the Ingest Point Creates a New Streaming Product Category

The streaming media stack has operated in silos for two decades. Encoding and transcoding happen at the source or in dedicated hardware. Orchestration — ad insertion, CDN routing, audience rules — happens in the cloud. And when anyone wants to apply machine intelligence to video, it happens after the fact: pull the

Michael Tuszynski

Mar 10, 2026 5 min read

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