We've been there. JSON Schema gets hard to write as soon as your payload is non-trivial. Conditional logic, cross-field rules, business invariants, and at some point we stop writing contracts at all. We go code-first, generate the schema from annotations, and end up with 200 lines very few understand, and error messages referencing paths like #/properties/items/allOf/0/then/Then that map to nothin
Three times in a decade. That's how often a Linux copy-primitive bug has blown a hole through container isolation. In 2016 it was Dirty COW. In 2024 it was Leaky Vessels. In 2026, a new class of Linux copy-primitive bugs is proving, again, that containers share a kernel. And that kernel keeps betraying them. The pattern is hard to ignore. Bugs in how the Linux kernel copies, references, or manages
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The Model Context Protocol has transformed how we connect AI to tools. But connecting agents to tools is only half the battle — connecting agents to each other is where the real challenge begins. I recently read @raviteja_nekkalapu_'s excellent article "I built an AI security Firewall and made it open source because production apps were leaking SSNs to OpenAI" and it resonated deeply with challeng
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