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How AI is changing IT work, what Splunk engineers are paid in India, which certifications to take first, and a five-level path from administrator to observability architect.

The 2026 layoff and fresher hiring figures, what commercial monitoring costs, where open source saves money, and a lab that turns a Prometheus alert into an automatic Ansible fix.

What a product manager takes on when the team shrinks and the deadline does not: building and testing alongside the product work, and where that arrangement breaks.

Chunk retrieval would have refunded ₹460 on a ticket worth ₹345 — fluent, confident, quoting a real policy by number. The rule was retrievable. The exception was not, and the fact that decided the case was a database row, not a document.

Development is getting more expensive and codebases more fragile, and everyone involved is convinced they are saving money. What the METR trial, GitClear, Veracode and Stack Overflow actually measured — and the five costs that never reach the business case.

A certification proves you can follow a paved path — it says nothing about your ability to survive the woods. What the 2026 hiring data actually shows employers require, and seven capability stacks that get hired instead of a badge.

Every transformative technology of the last two centuries scaled fast and then hit a wall — engines, jets, rockets, microprocessors. The technical literature has begun to publish results suggesting AI may be doing the same. The press releases haven't caught up. Here's what the data actually says.

For everyone who took the midnight call so someone else could go to a better school. A standing ovation, late but in time, for a generation that built more than it was ever credited for.

Three SSL renewals across three sites yielded three different procedural recipes from the same model. Why this isn't a bug but a property of the architecture — examined through probability, information theory, and the numerics of GPU matmuls.

A generation of cities was reshaped by IT salaries. The recent layoff waves are testing that foundation. An open-ended look at what history tells us about anchor-industry shrinkage, the AI cost-savings thesis, and whether a company can stay rich when its customers thin out.

We chased the cloud. We forgot we owned the sky. A story about Arjun in Pune, Isabela in São Paulo, Hiroshi in Kyoto, and Amara in Nairobi — and the hardware sitting idle on all of our desks.

Peer-reviewed studies show 40% of AI-generated code contains exploitable vulnerabilities. Vibe coding isn't a shortcut — it's a deferred liability. Here's what the research actually says.