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alierfan

37 karma · joined May 13, 2025

Full-stack developer turned AI engineer, building agentic systems and developer tooling in Calgary. I work with Elixir/Phoenix, TypeScript, and Python — and spend a lot of time thinking about how AI agents should be structured, controlled, and actually shipped. Writing about agentic coding pipelines, AI infrastructure, and the messy reality of building with LLMs.
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alierfan··on How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers
The technical breakdown of the Trivy attack is a great reminder that our security is only as strong as our version pinning. We all know we should pin to SHA-256 hashes instead of mutable tags, but the UX for managing and updating those hashes is still painful enough that most teams default to tags. Until the tooling makes 'doing the right thing' as easy as @v1, these supply chain leaks will continue to be a high-ROI path for attackers.
alierfan··on I still prefer MCP over skills
This isn't a zero-sum game or a choice of one over the other. They solve different layers of the developer experience: MCP provides a standardized, portable interface for external data/tools (the infrastructure), while Skills offer project-specific, high-level behavioral context (the orchestration). A robust workflow uses MCP to ensure tool reliability and Skills to define when and how to deploy those tools.