Incompetent company chasing wild valuation removed guardrails inside a improperly designed sandbox and - shock horror - recursive algorithm with access to the Internet did bad stuff.

These articles play into the AI labs hands. Stop giving them air.

Even a SOC type 1 would show you're on the journey.

Some people might not mind (or even know), but I sleep better at night trying to work as ethically as I can.

Posthog has unfettered logged in access to some sensitive stuff. What steps are they actually taking to scrub sensitive data from my replay before being used to train a model?

Peppers article with Amazon affiliate links

Perfect summation of 2026

The fact that the apps I would actually care about having on real estate on my front room seem to be nowhere to be seen is kinda glaring from my perspective... I know there's a certain purism to having Firefox front and center... But really?

So much promise as a Heroku alternative with all the AWS integrations but it's basically dead now. Not a peep from them on their public roadmap over at github.

We're having to go back to Fargate with all the operational overhead that entails.

RDS public by default (!), and the private config just removes the public IP address rather than puts in private subnet. Causes it to fail CIS benchmark which is requirement for FTR.

When I raised it I was told I was wrong.

I think there is a good future for the product but one size fits all config comes with downsides. IMO Would be better if it was IaC but with pre built "blocks" app, cache, etc, which you could easily customize. I also think the pricing is too steep for your average scaling bootstrapper which is where Heroku et al shined.

I think there is a false sense of everything being left v right. Perhaps there could be a few more spectrums on there e.g environmental, fiscal, social?