AI and agents
How autonomous systems change who operates software, and what humans stay accountable for.
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Thinking through the technologies reshaping how we work.
I am Mohamed Ben Achour. I write and think about artificial intelligence, software, cybersecurity, energy, and healthcare technology, and about the point where they meet: complex systems, the people who operate them, and the people accountable for them.
What I think and write about
The work spans industries, but the questions repeat: how systems are built, how they fail, who operates them, and who answers for the outcome.
Software engineering
How teams build, ship, and run software as the tools and the organizations around them change.
Browse the articlesCybersecurity
Security as an engineering discipline: systematic discovery, validation, and evidence over noise.
Browse the articlesEnergy and smart grid
Forecasting, markets, and the data systems that keep the grid balanced.
Browse the articlesHealthcare technology
Interoperability, health data, and applied AI in clinical systems.
Browse the articlesCloud, DevOps, and FinOps
Automation, autonomy, and the economics of running platforms at scale.
Browse the articlesArticles
Writing from my WordPress site, mohamedbenachour.net, now hosted here in full. The six most recent articles are below; the full archive has all 32.
Hitting the Limits of Git
AI agents now write code faster than the systems built to store it can handle. Anthropic and OpenAI both hit that limit this year. Both rebuilt their source control. One kept Git. One…
Read the articleLet’s Reverse Engineer How AI Extracts Labor
Software has never been cheaper to produce, yet engineering labor has rarely felt less secure. Both things are true at once, and for the same reason: companies do not buy labor for its own sake, they buy…
Read the articleToo Much Code, Too Many Attackers, Too Little Time
To understand what is coming, you do not need to imagine a distant future. You need only look at two trends that are already reshaping the present, and consider where they lead. The first trend is the amount of code…
Read the articleBuilding for the Post-IDE and Post-Browser Era
The most important interface in software is gaining a new operator. For decades the only operator was a human being, and the IDE and the browser were built for that operator alone. They now have a second one, the…
Read the articleDon’t Wait For Mythos, Create Your Security Harness.
I want to start with what actually happened, because the headline and the finding are not the same thing. In April, Anthropic gave a handful of organizations early access to Mythos Preview under Project Glasswing.…
Read the articleThe Watched Pot: Why Watching AI Agents Work Is Ruining Your Engineering Leverage
The Watched Pot You type /goal implement the payment retry logic across the billing service and hit enter. For the next four minutes, you watch. The terminal scrolls. Tool calls fire. Files change. You read every…
Read the articleThe “Transdisciplinary” Developer: Weaving a New Era of Engineers, Based on Edgar Morin Theory of Complexity.
Note: AI tools were used to assist in the drafting and editing parts of this article. All content has been reviewed, edited, before publishing. At its heart, Morin’s theory is a rejection of the “simplifying thought”…
Read the articleDon’t just vibe code, make SAAS.
One of the most heated debates in the software engineering world today centers around Vibe Coding. Introduced by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, vibe coding is a conversational programming style where large…
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