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- ProductJun 10Automating the Engineering Work That Isn't Your ProductThe DevOps work every team has, Mendral already does. The work only your team has, the chores no vendor ships, you can now hand to an agent by describing it in Slack. How Automations work, and the seven that Blaxel runs in productio
- IndustryMay 29What Flaky Tests Cost a 75-Engineer TeamA 75-engineer team loses about $375,000 a year to flaky tests in developer time alone. Here's the math, the CI compute bill, and the costs you can't put in a spreadsheet.Sam Alba
- IndustryMay 26You should not update your dependencies in 2026A brief (irreverent) history of software supply chain security, and what to do about it in the age of AI.Olivier Gambier
- ProductMay 22Supply Chain Attacks Don't Wait for CVEsBy the time a CVE exists, the bad version is already in thousands of CI pipelines. Here's the last year of npm and Actions attacks, why scanners are reactive by design, and the supply chain agent we shipped to catch dependency changes at the PR.Sa
- EngineeringMay 1How We Know If Our Agent Is Right36,564 investigations, no ground truth, and the eval signals we actually trust.Sam Alba
- EngineeringApr 10The Agent Harness Belongs Outside the SandboxTwo architectures for running agent harnesses, the tradeoffs between them, and how we make skills and memories work when the harness isn't local.Andrea Luzzardi
- EngineeringMar 30Same LLM, Different Agent: What Changes When You Specialize for CISame models, different tokens. What changes when you build an agent harness specialized for CI instead of general-purpose coding.Sam Alba
- EngineeringMar 6We Upgraded to a Frontier Model and Our Costs Went DownWe switched to a frontier model and our costs went down. Here's the architecture that made it possible.Andrea Luzzardi
- EngineeringFeb 26We use Claude Code daily. We still built our own CI agent.How Mendral closes 16,000 CI investigations a month: three Anthropic tiers, Firecracker microVMs, durable execution on Inngest, and a custom Go agent loop.Sam Alba
- EngineeringFeb 11LLMs Are Good at SQL. We Gave Ours Terabytes of CI Logs.We gave our AI agent a SQL interface to billions of CI log lines in ClickHouse. How we ingest, store, and query 1.5 billion log lines a week.Andrea Luzzardi
- IndustryFeb 10What CI Actually Looks Like at a 100-Person Team575K CI jobs, 1.18 billion log lines, 33 million test executions in one week. What we learned building an AI agent for PostHog's CI at scale.Sam Alba