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The Execution Gap: Why AI Trading Needs a New Kind of Governance

After weeks of researching the AI trading landscape, talking to Chief Risk Officers, and analyzing how builders are using LLMs, one thing is clear: Everyone is moving to LLM-based trading. And nobody has the governance layer to do it safely. The New Trading Workflow The way people trade has changed! The old way: staring at …

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Stateless AWS AMIs: How to Build a Reboot-Persistent “Detective” Boot

Here is your edited version, fully polished for grammar and flow, with the WordPress Markdown formatting (code blocks and headers) restored so it pastes perfectly into the Block Editor. Your additions about the “Stateful nightmare,” the “CloudFormation form replacement,” and the “paper vs. real Alpaca trading” are fantastic. They add massive technical credibility specific to …

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1-Click Enterprise Deployments: Engineering Agent Provost for AWS Marketplace

I’ve seen this exact movie play out at three different tech companies: Me: “I can handle our AWS Marketplace deployment. I’ve done it before.” Management: “That’s fine, Sales will figure out the Marketplace stuff.” Fast forward six months. The product never went live on the Marketplace until the company hit the layoff phase, and we …

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How We Made Agent Provost Hard to Break as We Scale the Team

When I hire new developers (different Coding Agents) , I do not assume perfect behavior. I assume velocity, curiosity, and occasional mistakes. So I designed Agent Provost around one non-negotiable product boundary: The product is the audit log format. If that format drifts, we lose chain-of-custody, investigations get harder, and trust disappears. Everything else is …

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11 Days That Changed AI Agent Safety Forever

Safety and Governance As enterprises rush to deploy autonomous AI agents, the critical missing piece has been robust AI governance and security. Without strict guardrails, an LLM with API access is a ticking compliance time bomb. This is the story of how one visionary architect, Steven Craig Bar Yakov Gindi, recognized this massive vulnerability and …

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I Built a Financial AI Compliance Engine in a Week. Here’s How Spec-Driven Vibe Coding Made the Impossible Routine.

By a Senior DevOps Engineer who thought nginx would be enough. The Problem Nobody Is Talking About AI trading agents are going live. Right now. Not in some distant future — today, LLMs are executing real trades through APIs like Alpaca, making decisions at machine speed, and holding accountability to exactly nobody. I’ve spent years …

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Deep Dive: Real-World Logging and Tool Calls in the Agent Provost Project

Building a Two-Way MITM Audit Ledger for AI Agents The Mission: A Tamper-Proof System of Record AI agents are unpredictable. When an agent interacts with a financial API like Alpaca.markets, you need more than just a “feeling” that it’s working—you need an immutable, two-way audit trail. I set out on a learning adventure to build …

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Navigating the Challenges of LLMs in Real-World DevOps Deployments

LLMs do not take into account the entirety of a project LLMs struggle with real-world deployments, consistently forgetting ~20% of critical components. This became clear while setting up @Istio on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Kiali observability. Following my thoughts on DevOps interviews and whiteboard coding tests (see link below), I’m now seeing the flip side …

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Devops interview Paradox: When Whiteboard Hazing Replaces Real Skills

Developer Hiring Managers that dont understand Devops As a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience I recently faced an interviewer who was genuinely shocked that I couldn’t find the missing number in an array of 1 to 100. Yes, really. This happened in 2025, when GitHub Copilot could solve this in seconds. Let’s …

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