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Technical decisions that turn out to be human ones. Why a software design is really a team structure problem, what an AI agent's odd behaviour reveals about management, and the choices that look technical until you look twice.

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The HFS bug was public for 11 weeks. The write-up got it exploited in a day.

The Rejetto HFS flaw was described in a public CVE in July and nobody reported exploiting it. A detailed walkthrough went up on 30 September. Attacks started the next day.

05 Oct 2026

Daily Ferment

Daily Ferment takes something that actually happened in one part of a working life and holds it against an unrelated part until a pattern shows up in both. On AI, engineering, leadership and fintech.

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