Pinpoint Protocol 2026.35

What Protects the Protection?   Engineers spend a lot of time thinking about failure because experience tells us that eventually something will fail. Disks die, processes crash, network connections disappear, and deployments don’t always go according to plan....

Pinpoint Protocol 2026.28

If you’ve spent any time building or maintaining technology, you’ve probably used the word “temporary.” A temporary firewall rule. A temporary service account. A temporary exception. A temporary configuration change.   There’s nothing...

Pinpoint Protocol 2026.27

I’ve been consuming a lot of AI content lately. New models. New benchmarks. New tools. New predictions. Every week it seems like there’s another breakthrough that’s supposed to change everything. The interesting part isn’t the technology...

Pinpoint Protocol 2026.26

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked about AI from a few different angles. Alan focused on curiosity. Tiffany focused on asking better questions. This week, I kept coming back to one thought:   AI is making people more important, not less.   That may sound...

Pinpoint Protocol 2026.25

Last week, Alan reminded us that AI can process information faster than any analyst ever could, and he’s right.   AI can summarize logs.AI can prioritize alerts.AI can even explain what a vulnerability does.   But there’s one thing it can’t do on its...