The Rule of Two for AI Agents in CI/CD
AI agents in GitHub Actions and delivery pipelines need clear boundaries. Teams should avoid combining untrusted input, secrets, and external communication in one workflow.
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Kyluke McDougall 
AI Coding FinOps: When Agents Become a Delivery Cost
AI coding agents can speed up delivery, but only if teams can see what they cost, where they help, and where they quietly create rework.
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Kyluke McDougall 
Your Legacy Codebase Is Not AI-Ready Just Because You Bought an AI Coding Tool
AI coding agents can help serious teams move faster, but only when the existing system is legible enough for them to work safely. For many products, the first AI productivity project is making the codebase understandable.
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Kyluke McDougall 
AI Coding Sandboxes Are Not Enough. Design the Blast Radius.
Sandboxes, permissions, and allowlists matter. But serious teams also need to decide how far an AI coding agent mistake can spread.
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Kyluke McDougall 
AI Coding Agents Did Not Remove the Bottleneck. They Moved It.
Coding agents can create more implementation throughput. The serious question for product teams is whether planning, review, integration, and architecture can keep up.
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Kyluke McDougall 
AI Coding Agents Need Guardrails Before They Get Near Production
Claude Code, Cursor, MCP tools, and similar agents are becoming more powerful. For serious product teams, the key question is no longer speed. It is control.
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Kyluke McDougall 
On-prem AI coding does not solve the architecture question
Hybrid and on-prem AI coding agents may unlock adoption in regulated companies. They still need architecture, boundaries, review and operational design.
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Kyluke McDougall 
MCP turns AI coding agents into connected systems
MCP makes AI coding agents more useful by connecting them to tools, data and workflows. It also means teams need production-style security boundaries around those connections.
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Kyluke McDougall 
When AI agents touch databases, speed needs boundaries
AI coding agents can accelerate schema work, migrations and backend changes. They should not be allowed near production data without clear operating rules.
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Kyluke McDougall