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AI & Security Engineering · April 2026 · 11 min read

Falling Back in Love with Security: How Claude Code Changed How I Work

After 20 years in technology, I didn't expect to feel genuinely excited about my tools again. Claude Code changed that. A senior technologist's honest account of what AI-assisted security work actually looks like — the capabilities, the shift in how expertise gets applied, and why the role of the human in the loop matters more than ever.

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Product · April 2026 · 13 min read

Why We Built Arca AI-First — and What That Actually Means

Every monitoring platform says it has AI. Arca was designed from the start so that the AI is the interface — not a feature bolted on afterward. An inside look at the architecture decisions, the tradeoffs, and why we think the future of infrastructure monitoring is a conversation, not a dashboard.

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