notes from the field
Making cloud run itself,
one agent at a time.
Hands-on writing on agentic infrastructure, MCP, and reliability — from someone shipping it in production at a Fortune-500 aviation platform, not theorizing about it. By Ajin Baby.
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The runner is the API: why your remediator's contract matters more than your handlers
Everyone reviews the handler that restarts the pod. The safety lives in the runner around it — and handlers that skip it silently void every guarantee.
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The 47th approval click is the bug
Human-in-the-loop is a real control until volume turns it into a reflex. How approval fatigue converts oversight into a rubber stamp — and the fix.
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Why your AI agent should not be allowed to act yet
Reading is reversible. Acting is not. Five things that must exist before an agent gets a write path — and the honest reason advisory-forever is also a failure.
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Ajin Baby — 15 years making cloud platforms reliable, 2x founder before that. Azure AI Engineer, Neo4j Certified, IEEE member. More about me →