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AI coding agents are useful in the same way junior engineers, build scripts, and sharp shell aliases are useful: they can remove friction, accelerate boring work, and occasionally surprise you with a clever path through a problem. They are not a replacement for engineering judgment.
That distinction matters.
The strongest …
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Backstage is already where many platform teams want developers to go for service ownership, docs, APIs, runbooks, and operational metadata. The problem is that developers do not always want to navigate a portal. Sometimes they just want to ask a question:
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Git is usually the first place developers look when they need to understand a system. That makes sense. The code is there. The commit history is there. The pull requests are there. If you are lucky, the README is not lying too badly.
But Git is only one layer of …
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Secure prompts are not magic words. They are operating instructions for a system that is about to read code, logs, tickets, diffs, infrastructure settings, and possibly the occasional thing that should never have left a developer's laptop.
That is why prompt security matters in developer workflows. The prompt is not …
