The Daily Standup
Standup notes from production work
What shipped, what we're targeting next, and the judgment calls in between — posted when there's something real to report, not on a schedule.
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Red Hat Summit 2026: Why the Platform Has to Come Before the Agent
AI, security, and cost are converging onto one governed platform layer. The keynote made the case: you can't bolt AI onto a broken foundation.
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Red Hat Summit 2026: Token Cost Is an Architecture Problem
Token cost is an architecture problem. The winning posture is to become a token provider, not just a token consumer.
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Red Hat Summit 2026: What Separates Agent Pilots from Production Deployments
80% of Fortune 500 use active AI agents. Less than 10% have production-grade deployments. The gap is the runtime underneath.
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The Agent System Running La Bandera Wasn't Built Around One AI Model
Most teams adopting AI tooling right now lock into one frontier model's specific strengths and blind spots. We built something that doesn't — and that pattern is now becoming common industry-wide.
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Shipping a Reactive Integration Pattern Through a Hard Permission Wall
A live Kafka-backed event pipeline on Red Hat OpenShift, built and verified on a free-tier account with no elevated cluster permissions — proving the pattern, not just the plan.
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