{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Digital Dam","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/","description":"Recent content on Digital Dam","image":{"title":"Digital Dam","url":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/cover.png","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/cover.png"},"generator":"Hugo -- 0.155.2","language":"en-us","lastBuildDate":"Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:07:07 +0100","item":[{"title":"Why I Built Kite: The Framework That Doesn't Exist","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/why-i-built-kite\/","pubDate":"Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/why-i-built-kite\/","description":"

After auditing several “AI agent” projects, I noticed a pattern: they all rebuilt the same boring infrastructure, none of them shipped features, and every single one trusted the LLM far more than it deserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pattern I Keep Seeing<\/h2>\n

Here’s how every AI agent project I audit goes:<\/p>\n

Month 1:<\/strong> Beautiful demo. The agent works. The board is impressed. The founder thinks they’ll ship in 6 weeks.<\/p>\n

Month 2:<\/strong> The agent entered an infinite loop and burned $4,000 overnight. OpenAI went down and took the entire product with it. Duplicate requests are processing twice because nobody implemented idempotency.<\/p>"},{"title":"You Cannot Prompt Your Way Out of a Race Condition","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/you-cannot-prompt-your-way-out-of-a-race-condition\/","pubDate":"Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/you-cannot-prompt-your-way-out-of-a-race-condition\/","description":"

We spent the last two years building chatbots that could read. Now, the business wants chatbots that can touch<\/em> things. If that doesn’t terrify you, you haven’t been paying attention.<\/p>\n

For a long time, we treated AI like a librarian. Its job was to walk into the stacks (your database), read a book, and summarize it. If the librarian hallucinated, the user got bad advice. It was embarrassing, but the failure was contained. The database remained intact. The bank account was untouched.<\/p>"},{"title":"How to Scam Your Client with \"Resume-Driven Development\" as a Service","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/how-to-scam-your-client-with-resume-driven-development-as-a-service\/","pubDate":"Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/how-to-scam-your-client-with-resume-driven-development-as-a-service\/","description":"

My favorite kind of call is the rescue project.<\/p>\n

A new client comes to us, frustrated. They just paid a ‘modern’ tech agency for a platform that’s completely unmaintainable.<\/p>\n

We pop the hood, and it’s magnificent<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s a state-of-the-art<\/em> “Cloud-Native,” “AI-Powered,” “Event-Driven,” “Serverless” system. A stunning monument to modern engineering, designed to handle 10 million concurrent users for a B2B app that has 500.<\/p>\n

The previous agency didn’t solve the client’s problem. They solved their own<\/em> problem: how to get “GenAI” “Kubernetes” and “VectorDB” onto their developers’ resumes.<\/strong><\/p>"},{"title":"Boring Technology | Your AI is the 1% (Don't Forget the 99%)","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/your-ai-is-the-1-percent-dont-forget-the-99-percent\/","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/your-ai-is-the-1-percent-dont-forget-the-99-percent\/","description":"

I\u2019m seeing a worrying pattern lately. Almost every product discussion now starts with, “So, how are we using AI for this?”<\/p>\n

We’re all a bit drunk on the hype. We’re treating AI like magic dust we can just sprinkle on any problem.<\/p>\n

Clients want a Youtube or Netflix level recommendation engine on day one. Devs, quite reasonably, are excited to put the shiniest new Vector DB on their resumes.<\/p>\n

We’re starting backward. We’re trying to build the penthouse while the foundation is still a sketch on a napkin.<\/p>"},{"title":"Your Perfect AI Headshot is Now a Red Flag","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/your-perfect-ai-headshot-is-now-a-red-flag\/","pubDate":"Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/your-perfect-ai-headshot-is-now-a-red-flag\/","description":"

I scroll LinkedIn, what do I see?<\/p>\n

Perfect headshots. Studio lighting, crazy sharp, precise smiles, not a hair out of place.\nPerfect posts and comments. Flawless grammar, zero typos.<\/p>\n

It’s all clean, polished and soulless.<\/p>\n

This is the Great AI Flood.<\/strong> The cost of looking<\/em> competent, of sounding<\/em> smart, has just dropped to zero.<\/p>\n

And this is where the problem begins.<\/p>\n

The Collapse of Signal<\/h3>\n

In economics, when you flood a market, the asset’s value collapses. For many years, polished content was a signal of professionalism<\/em>. Now that AI can produce it instantly, polish has just become noise<\/em>.<\/p>"},{"title":"Boring Technology | Postgres is Your new Tech Stack","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/postgres-is-your-new-tech-stack\/","pubDate":"Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/postgres-is-your-new-tech-stack\/","description":"

Imagine we’re building a simple e-commerce site, “SimpleStore.” The initial planning meeting identifies our needs:<\/p>\n

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  • A database for users, products, and orders. (Easy: Postgres<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  • A way to send confirmation emails when an order is placed. (Okay, add a RabbitMQ<\/strong> job queue).<\/li>\n
  • A cache for the homepage’s “Top 10 Products.” (Fine, add Redis<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
  • A full-text search bar. (Ugh. Add Elasticsearch<\/strong>).<\/li>\n
  • A nightly job to aggregate sales reports. (Spin up a Cron<\/strong> server).<\/li>\n
  • A new AI feature to find “similar” products. (The VCs will love this! Add Pinecone<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Before writing a single feature, our architecture diagram is a mess. We have six different systems to provision, monitor, secure, and scale. We have what the team at Supabase calls “dotted line complexity”<\/strong>\u2014the invisible, brittle connections between<\/em> these systems that will inevitably break in production.<\/p>"},{"title":"Boring Technology | My Trip to \"Microservices Hell\" (and Why I Often Take the Monolith Instead)","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/my-trip-to-microservces-hell\/","pubDate":"Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/my-trip-to-microservces-hell\/","description":"Forget the hype. This post is my breakdown of the real pain of microservices (Sagas, network taxes) and why the boring Modular Monolith is often the smarter choice."},{"title":"Compliance is Not Security: The HIPAA Compliant Illusion","link":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/compliance-is-not-security-the-hipaa-compliant-illusion\/","pubDate":"Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:07:07 +0100","guid":"https:\/\/digitaldam.org\/posts\/compliance-is-not-security-the-hipaa-compliant-illusion\/","description":"Compliance is not security. Learn why your HIPAA compliant EHR is vulnerable to insider threats & how to fix it with a context-aware ABAC architecture"}]}}