Tag: Tools
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The Claude Code Effect on the Engineering Org
Claude Code and the other agentic coding tools have changed what an engineering team looks like. The senior engineer writes the prompt. The junior engineer runs the code. The middle engineer is being squeezed out.
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What a Modern Remote Access Trojan Actually Does
The RAT has changed. The 2015 RAT was a toy. The 2026 RAT is a mature criminal product with persistence, evasion, and operator UX. Here is what is actually running on the compromised endpoint.
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The State of AI Music in 2026
AI music in 2026 is not the catastrophe the labels warned about, and it is not the bonanza the startups promised either. It is a working tool that does a working job for a specific kind of user, while the legal questions stack up around it.
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The Tools That Disappeared in 2025
Every year takes a few tools with it. The 2025 list was longer than most. The vendors, the projects, the open source tools the working developer depended on, the ones that did not survive the acquisition, the funding cut, the maintainer burnout.
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How to Read a CVE
The CVE sits as the small text document the security team has been ignoring for years, the document that the patch management tool consumes without the human reading it, the document that contains the answer to the question the security team should be asking.
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Security Tooling in 2026 Is Bigger Than Ever, and About the Same
A field guide to the security tooling market in 2026, with the consolidation, the categories that are over funded, the categories that are under funded, and the part about the dashboard that is going to get ignored.
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The Quiet Death of the Cron Job
The cron job sits as the piece of infrastructure the operations team forgot about. The job that runs at 3am, the job that nobody has read in five years, the job that does the critical thing the production system depends on, the job that will break the production system when the server it runs on…
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The Difference Between Hacking and Penetration Testing
A field guide to the difference between hacking and penetration testing in 2026, with what each one actually does, the legal framework that separates them, and when to use which one.
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Your AI Agent Logs Are Your Liability
Your AI agent logs are your liability, in 2026, and the reason is that the AI agent logs contain everything the user did, and the user did a lot, and the stuff the user did is increasingly the kind of stuff that creates legal and regulatory exposure.
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The Quiet Return of the Local Database
There is a quiet return of the local database, and the people who are running it are not the people the cloud native crowd would expect. The local database is not a return to 2005, the local database is a return to common sense.