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What we built, what it cost, and what broke on the way. Everything here is something that actually happened on this platform — there is no roadmap post coming.
Bloated clouds, anyone?Clouds had to serve everyone, so they got bloated and gave up on the developer experience that made them worth having. A rant, and what I did about it.Two strangers' repos, deployed by agents, unaidedWe handed two agents two repositories neither had ever seen and let them deploy, with nobody to ask. Both got there. Then we counted what broke.A database, two services and an address, in five commandsA walk through an ordinary deploy — the Dockerfile, the five commands, what the engine says back, and the one command it refuses.