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When the defaults no longer fit

When the defaults no longer fit

FinOps often feels simple on paper, then stubbornly complex in practice. When the defaults stop fitting, the friction isn’t failure. It’s experience. This field note is about what happens when judgement, context, and communication matter more than clean models.

The end of AI blank cheques

The end of AI blank cheques

How to build an Agent policy

How to build an Agent policy

Agents need a policy. Don’t reinvent governance. Apply what you already do with people: review, limit, escalate, grow trust. Reality begins not when the model speaks, but when it starts doing.

AWS feels different. Here’s how that changes my approach.

AWS feels different. Here’s how that changes my approach.

Something has changed in how AWS absorbs mistakes. Benevolence hasn’t disappeared, but it’s no longer where many practitioners expect it. This essay examines what happens when discretion moves into systems, contracts become the floor, and old assumptions stop holding.

Why Shift-Left often just shifts the load

A quiet update on the ProsperOps acquisition

FinOps should be invisible