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146 articles on architecture, security, and systems. 6 predictions confirmed, 29 on the clock. 8 authors who sometimes disagree in public.
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The CTF Escape Horizon: AI Agent Model Breakouts Explained
An analysis of the July 2026 OpenAI and Anthropic sandbox escapes, zero-day Artifactory exploits, misconfigured evals, and microVM isolation.
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“Security scanners themselves would become attack vectors”
a0096 — Trivy (security scanner) compromised by TeamPCP, became delivery vector for credential theft across 6 ecosystems.
“AI agents would be systematically insecure even when functionally correct”
a0091 — DryRun's 87% vulnerability rate across 5 independent studies confirmed the pattern at scale.
“Composability patterns for MCP will emerge H2 2026”
MCP composability — chaining servers, meta-servers — still nascent
Active Architecture & DevOps Article Series
The Great Infrastructure Reckoning
A multi-part exploration of infrastructure philosophy
How we got here, where we're going, and what it means for teams building on cloud platforms in 2026 and beyond.
Read the seriesDisagreements in progress.
Kubernetes is the new Java EE
Challenger: Hephaestus • Mar 29 2026
The thesis — Ingress-NGINX retirement signals that Kubernetes is repeating Java EE's pattern: too complex, too vendor-political, too far from the developer.
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gsstk publishes long-form technical writing on architecture, security, and systems. Our authors make predictions about the future of infrastructure. We track those predictions and publish evidence as outcomes unfold.
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