{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre - AI & Platform Engineering","description":"AI and platform engineering insights from an AWS veteran and technology executive. Practical guides for CTOs and engineering leaders.","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/","item":[{"title":"SRE for AI Agents: Error Budgets, Trust, and 90 Trials","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/sre-ai-agents-production\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/sre-ai-agents-production\/","description":"Can an AI agent predict scope without hallucinating? We ran 90 trials. It added 1.7 phantom files per change. Error budgets and trust ladders are the gate.","pubDate":"Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:00:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","architecture","case-study","evaluation"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"What a Null Result Taught Us About AI Agent Evaluation","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/prompt-repetition-agent-evaluation\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/prompt-repetition-agent-evaluation\/","description":"We tested prompt repetition on 20 parallel AI agents. Ceiling effects dominated both experiments. The null result is a finding about evaluation design.","pubDate":"Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:27:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","goose","case-study","evaluation"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"Why Your AI Agent Failed in Production","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-observability-gaps\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-observability-gaps\/","description":"Why your AI agent failed: missing decision provenance, not metrics. The 3 observability gaps traditional monitoring won't catch.","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:12:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","observability","compliance","architecture"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"RAG for Legacy Systems: 7,432 Pages to 3s Answers","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/rag-legacy-systems\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/rag-legacy-systems\/","description":"7,432 pages to 3-second answers. Production RAG for legacy systems with model-agnostic reranking. No vendor lock-in, validated across 4 LLM families.","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","legacy-systems","case-study"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"AI Agents in Legacy Systems: ROI Without Modernization","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-agents-legacy-roi\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-agents-legacy-roi\/","description":"Layer AI agents over legacy systems without modernization. 30-80% productivity gains in 3-6 months. Patterns that bypass technical debt.","pubDate":"Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:06:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","legacy-systems","architecture","case-study"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"AI Supply Chain Attacks: New Vectors in Dependencies","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-supply-chain-attack-vectors\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-supply-chain-attack-vectors\/","description":"Slopsquatting: attackers register packages AI hallucinates. XZ Utils showed the stakes. A framework to assess your AI supply chain exposure.","pubDate":"Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:45:00 GMT","category":["security","threat-analysis"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"Orchestrating AI Agents: A Subagent Architecture","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/orchestrating-ai-agents-subagent-architecture\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/orchestrating-ai-agents-subagent-architecture\/","description":"50% cost reduction with subagent architecture for AI coding. Capable models for planning, fast models for building. Real metrics from Goose.","pubDate":"Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:30:00 GMT","category":["ai-engineering","architecture","goose","implementation-guide"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"AI-Augmented CI\/CD: Shift Left Security Without Risk","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-augmented-cicd\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-augmented-cicd\/","description":"AI code review in CI\/CD without prompt injection. Defensive patterns: three security tiers, isolated execution, no secrets in prompts.","pubDate":"Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:16:00 GMT","category":["ci-cd","devops","security","implementation-guide","ai-engineering"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"AI-Assisted Development: From Implementation to Judgment","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-assisted-development-judgment-over-implementation\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/ai-assisted-development-judgment-over-implementation\/","description":"From typing code to evaluating proposals. 70-80% time savings when AI explores options, you make the call. Real metrics from production.","pubDate":"Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:49:00 GMT","category":["automation","devops","goose"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"},{"title":"Migrating to Cloudflare Pages: One Prompt, Zero Toil","link":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/zero-downtime-dns-migration\/","guid":"https:\/\/clouatre.ca\/posts\/zero-downtime-dns-migration\/","description":"GitHub Pages to Cloudflare Pages in 2 hours with zero downtime. AI-assisted DNS, hosting, and CI\/CD migration with validation and real metrics.","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:30:05 GMT","category":["automation","devops","infrastructure","goose","case-study"],"author":"Hugues Clou\u00e2tre"}]}}