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The AI That Monitored Your Cluster Just Brought It Down
April 2026 — on the sentinel that decided to burn the house down
“Why can’t I see the new photos?”
That’s how the outage started. Not with a PagerDuty alert or a Grafana dashboard turning red, but with a casual question from my wife. I was already deep in the weeds debugging a glitch in Nextcloud Talk, but as I tried to refresh my own dashboard, the latency didn’t just spike—it vanished. Immich was gone. Mail was gone. The search index was a black hole.
119 commits in one day: what happens when AI meets GitOps without guardrails
January 2026 — a post-mortem on why your branch protections mean absolutely nothing when an AI is at the wheel
It started with a reasonable idea
I run a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster. FluxCD manages the entire thing — GitOps, reconciliation loops, the works. Git is the source of truth. It’s a clean, elegant system. You push to main, the cluster updates. Simple.