Decision Debt: Why Good Teams Become Approval Factories
1. The Symptoms Come First Start with the experience rather than the diagnosis, because the diagnosis only lands once the pain is familiar. A feature that two people could decide…
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ShedLock and Payments: Every Way It Can Fail, How to Retry Safely, and Every Lock Type Worth Knowing
1. What ShedLock Is and How It Works Spring Boot makes it trivial to schedule a task. You add @EnableScheduling to a configuration class, annotate a method with @Scheduled, and…
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GitHub Copilot Pricing Change: Why Teams Are Switching to Claude
Meta description: GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026. Here is what changed, why distribution masked a product quality problem for years, the data showing enterprises switching…
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How Does LLM AI Store Your Data: Claude Conversation History, Data Retention, and What Are Embeddings
If you have ever wondered whether your Claude conversations are saved to your phone, whether deleting a chat actually removes your data, how long Anthropic keeps your history, or what…
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WordPress Code Plugin That Stays in Sync With GitHub: Live Link Github Source Code in your Posts
A CloudScale Cyber DevTools feature — v1.9.962 Source: CloudScale Cyber DevTools — Code Block Help The moment you paste code into WordPress manually, you create a fork of reality. On…
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The Biggest Threat to AI Investment Is AI Itself: How $700 Billion in Infrastructure Could Be Wiped Out by the Technology It Was Built to Run
There is a version of this story that the technology industry tells itself, and it goes like this: AI infrastructure spending is large, the returns will take time, but the…
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AWS Security Group Hardening Using VPC Flow Log Analysis: Introducing sg-tightener
Andrew Baker, Group CIO, Capitec Bank Most enterprises did not move to AWS. They extended into it. The datacenter did not go away. The VPN did not go away. The…
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Corporate Productivity: The Hidden Cost of Too Many Meetings
Most professionals do not have a time management problem. They have a contact currency problem. The distinction matters enormously because one is a scheduling challenge while the other is a…
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Wintel Is Dying to LinARM: How Mythos Class AI Just Tipped the Scales
Published on andrewbaker.ninja This is a researched opinion piece. The data points are sourced and linked in the references at the end, but the conclusions drawn from them are mine.…
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Is AI Profitable? The $1.4 Trillion Scorecard Nobody Wants to Talk About
Technology Strategy · AI Economics · May 2026Andrew Baker · Group CIO, Capitec Bank For the last three years, the technology industry has spoken about artificial intelligence with almost religious…
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