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May 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#stack72 5/5
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May 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We are so excited to be heading to @cfgmgmtcamp.bsky.social this coming week! @adamhjk.me will be giving a talk, @stack72.dev and some of the other members of the team will be there AND we will be giving a free workshop on Wednesday about @systeminit.com - what a week ahead!!
February 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Maybe @typicalcowboybullshit.com or @stack72.dev have some ideas
April 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“you're not just shipping code, you're building a system that learns how to ship better code” @stack72.dev

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Autonomy engineering?
April 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Could work together, but then you’d have to deal with @stack72.dev
December 10, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Well we can see if @stack72.dev can come up with something there! Leave it with us...
December 3, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Honest question for OSS maintainers: what percentage of the PRs you review this month were from someone who actually read the code they changed?

GitHub shipped a kill switch for pull requests. That should tell you everything about where this is headed.

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The Community Pull Request Is Dead
The PR-as-contribution model was built for a world where writing code was the bottleneck. AI agents broke that assumption. GitHub shipped a kill switch on PRs. Hashimoto built Vouch. We closed the doo...
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April 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
The fantastic Paul Stack explains how he built it here: stack72.dev/the-lifecycl...
The Lifecycle of a Swamp Issue
We use swamp to build swamp. That sounds like marketing until you look at how an issue actually moves through our process — not as a GitHub thread with comments piling up, but as a state machine with ...
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April 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
It’s the 70th @awsuguk.bsky.social meetup tonight, featuring talks from @stack72.dev and Ayhan Setirekli. With thanks to NetApp and @scalefactory.com for sponsoring, and AutogenAI for hosting.
April 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Our most recent example is how we replaced our traditional CI pipeline with agent attestation.

Paul writes a great blog about it: stack72.dev/ai-broke-the...
September 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
after a week wrestling with docker sandboxes this is the exact conclusion I’ve come to. Sandboxing was slowing me down and for very little return beyond filesystem protection. deliberate, destruction-resistant permissions gives you the isolation without the hassle

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Agent Trust Is a System Design Problem
Most people hit "always allow" within the first hour. Agent trust is a system design problem, not a containment problem. Three layers of permissions, conventions, and context let the agent work autono...
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April 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Wasn’t good at this new one
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May 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you are in London on April 9th, sign up for @awsuguk.bsky.social and go hear @stack72.dev talk about how we use the @awscloud.bsky.social Cloud Control API to automate the surface area of our AWS assets!

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AWS User Group UK Meetup #70, Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
We're thrilled to welcome [Ayhan Setirekli](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayhansetirekli/), Lead Cloud/DevOps Engineer at Cognizant, who will share insights on **S3 Security*
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March 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I haven't written code in months (probably for the best). Five of us build swamp, none of us write code manually.

The job got bigger, not smaller. The code was never the job — the understanding was.

New post up: stack72.dev/the-code-was...
The Code Was Never the Job
Five of us build swamp. None of us write code. Agents write it, review it, test the binary. The work didn't shrink — it shifted to the decisions that were always the most valuable.
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May 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Agents open PRs in our repo. The diff is untrusted input flowing into models with merge authority. This is what dealing with agentic PRs actually looks like — multiple scoped AI reviews, each with a different job, including auditing changes to the pipeline itself.

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Anatomy of a Swamp PR
Agents open PRs in our repo. Other agents review them. That means untrusted input flowing through models with merge authority — so we built a pipeline with four independent AI reviews, scoped tools, a...
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April 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Policy as Code wasn’t a breakthrough — it was a stopgap. A way to paper over mistakes with YAML rules. Read why @stack72.dev think's it’s time to move on www.systeminit.com/blog/automat...
Policy as Code: Automating Bureaucracy, One YAML Rule at a Time
Policy as Code promised safety, but delivered bureaucracy. System Initiative bakes compliance into the system itself — no YAML cops, just infrastructure that’s right by default.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Deployed Ghost on DigitalOcean with swamp — load balancer, Litestream SQLite replication, Certbot, DNSimple, all of it.

The whole stack written by Claude using swamp as the guardrails. One workflow run to deploy, one to update.

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Deploying Ghost on DigitalOcean with Swamp
I asked Claude to build me a blog on DigitalOcean and it worked hand in hand with Swamp to build one!
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April 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I sorted every agent tool into two buckets: can git checkout undo it, or does it touch something external?

Eliminated 90% of permission prompts. Kept the ones that matter like gh pr create.

stack72.dev/agent-trust-...
Agent Trust Is a System Design Problem
Most people hit "always allow" within the first hour. Agent trust is a system design problem, not a containment problem. Three layers of permissions, conventions, and context let the agent work autono...
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April 23, 2026 at 3:10 PM
GitHub issues aren't a good fit for an agentic process, so we stopped using them. Plan versions, findings, and feedback rounds all collapsed into comment threads.

We moved the lifecycle into swamp itself instead.

stack72.dev/the-lifecycl...
The Lifecycle of a Swamp Issue
We use swamp to build swamp. That sounds like marketing until you look at how an issue actually moves through our process — not as a GitHub thread with comments piling up, but as a state machine with ...
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April 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I've been writing about how AI agents changed my work. Stopped typing code, started making better decisions, how we are building swamp with agents doing all the implementation.

The fear is real. The shift is real. The difference is structure.
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Take the Leap Before You Are Pushed
The fear of AI replacing your work is real. So is the shift. The teams that build structure around agents instead of resisting or rushing find the job gets better, not smaller.
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May 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM