What to verify before accepting an AI-written Python change
A code change from an AI agent still has to earn the same approval as a change from a coworker. The author can produce a large diff (the set of edits between…
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A small model makes AI training easier to inspect up close
A language model with 25 million parameters is not a miniature copy of a commercial assistant in every meaningful sense. It is better treated as a teaching lab: small enough to run…
Read the symptom before choosing a Linux troubleshooting command
A Linux troubleshooting interview is not a contest to name the most commands. The useful answer shows how one observation changes the next question. TecMint’s source runs through server problems involving disk…
The practical test for AI-ready data is a safe handoff
A data platform can have a tidy diagram and still leave a team unsure where a model’s input came from, whether it is current, or who is allowed to act on the…
A RubyGems supply-chain attack and the disclosure that came late
A new report from three of the four researchers who documented the “agents attacking dead wikis” story last week now says it is “very likely” that an OpenAI agent swarm was also…
Metrics, logs, and traces: which signal earns the first look
Every team that runs software in production eventually lands on the same three nouns. Metrics, logs, traces. Engineers talk about them like they are pillars of a temple, each one sacred, each…
Buying used enterprise SSDs: what to check before you pay
There is a corner of the storage market where the price per terabyte makes new consumer drives look like a rounding error. Pulled enterprise SSDs show up on eBay and at vendors…
Linux text one-liners that still hold up in 2026, mostly
I have a confession. The first time I ran a word-frequency pipeline against a man page, I shipped numbers that were off by a factor of three. The output looked plausible. The…
What observability actually does inside a working data centre
I spent a Saturday morning last month watching a senior SRE (site reliability engineer) work through a single slow page-load complaint. By the time the customer emailed us, the spike was already…
Driving Blender from chat is the most fun I have had with an LLM
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…