CI/CD in 2026: Agents Opened 1M PRs in 5 Months, Bots Write 1 in 5 Reviews, and Most Agent PRs Get No Human Look
What the pipeline looks like when AI agents open the pull requests: GitHub's coding agent went GA on 25 September 2025 and opened over a million PRs in five months, Copilot code review passed 60 million reviews and one in five on GitHub, CodeRabbit has reviewed 13 million PRs on $88 million raised, and the first studies find most agent PRs get no human review attention. The gates that still hold: the assigner cannot approve, an extra approval for bot authors, path fences, signed commits, SLSA provenance, and a workflow YAML that gives agent PRs their own lane.
13 minOct 5, 2026AIOps in 2026: 47% on ITBench, 10% on Hard On-Call, $6.50 an Investigation, and Four Outages Where the Automation Was the Incident
The incident-response agents of 2026 against the evidence: Datadog Bits AI SRE GA at about 6.5 credits ($6.50) per investigation, PagerDuty's approval-gated SRE Agent, Grafana's six GA agent tools, Splunk's AI SRE, Elastic buying Deductive, Resolve at a $1B headline valuation on $4M ARR, Traversal's $48M; benchmarks from 13.8% on ITBench in 2025 to 47% in May 2026, 20.7% exact root cause on OpenRCA 2.0, 10% on hard ORCA-Bench and 40% hallucinated causes; what the AWS, Azure, Cloudflare and Google postmortems say about automation; and why a human should hold the button.
14 minOct 5, 2026AI SOC Agents in 2026: 98% Accuracy Claims, 23 to 34% on the Benchmark, and 0% of Teams Letting Them Act Alone
What the security-operations agents from Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, SentinelOne, Torq and a billion-dollar startup cohort actually do in 2026 and what is measured: a median of 100 alerts a day and 28 percent never investigated, 75-minute mean investigations, Microsoft's $4-an-hour compute units and Google's token meter, CrowdStrike's 98 percent triage claim against Meta's 23 to 34 percent benchmark, Anthropic's and Google's reports of attackers running agents against defenders, and a Sigma rule and CI step that keep a human on the merge button.
14 minSep 9, 2026AI Power in 2026: 485 TWh, a 0.3 GW Stargate, a 116 GW Turbine Backlog, and 1,800 MW That Dropped Off the Grid in Seconds
The electricity numbers behind AI, kept honest: IEA's 485 TWh for 2025 and 950 by 2030, LBNL's 4.7 percent of US power heading to 12, what a prompt actually costs (0.24 Wh at Google, 30 times more in reasoning mode), which gigawatt campuses are energised versus announced (Stargate Abilene at 0.3 of 1.2 GW), where the power comes from (a 116 GW gas-turbine backlog with 2031 slots, nuclear restarts in 2027, one SMR construction permit), what the grid operators are doing about 233 GW queues and 1,800 MW load-loss events, rack power from 132 kW to 600 kW, and a script to measure your own job's energy.
14 minSep 8, 2026AI Found the Bugs: 23,000 Findings in a Month, a 3-Day Patch Mandate, and the End of curl's Bounty
From AIxCC's 18 real bugs in August 2025 to Project Glasswing's 23,019 findings by May 2026 and the first AI-written zero-day exploited in the wild. What the cyber reasoning systems, Big Sleep, Codex Security and Mythos Preview actually did, why bug bounties are drowning, why CISA now wants federal patches in three days, and a workflow for a small team that keeps the humans looking only at validated findings.
13 minSep 8, 2026Agent Observability in 2026: The Spans Are Standard, the Standard Isn't Stable, and Nobody Reads the Logs
OpenTelemetry's GenAI conventions moved to their own repo in June and still carry the Development badge; every vendor from Datadog to Grafana ingests them anyway. I instrumented an agent loop with the official Python library, show the exact spans it emits, and go through what the 2026 eval papers say actually catches failures: pass^k, log inspection, and a step budget.
13 minSep 2, 2026It's 2 AM. Do You Know What Your AI Agent Is Doing?
I run the microVMs that other people's AI agents execute in. At 2 AM almost all of them are idle — and the things burning money are the robots watching them.
11 minSep 2, 2026microVM Production Incidents: 4 Postmortems From My Fleet
Four real postmortems from a multi-tenant Firecracker microVM fleet I run solo: a wiped boot disk, silent config drift, a fatal page fault, and no alerts.
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