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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Agent browsing got 3–7× cheaper and 1.8× slower. Both numbers change your design.
Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a browser built for agents, not people. The measured trade-off, what it can't do, and why cheap browsing rewrites your threat model.
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A reasoning model just became a platform default. The lock-in isn't where you're looking.
Salesforce made Claude the default model across Agentforce and Slack. Where model dependency actually accrues, and the five exits worth keeping open.
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Your newest platform user is an agent. Build it a golden path.
Agents are becoming first-class platform citizens. That is an IDP problem: identity, quotas, golden paths, and a portal agents consume as an API.
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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 →