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Jennifer Smith

Cloud/infrastructure architect, 25 years enterprise. Now solo: I run production systems on Cloudflare Workers + D1 for ~$0/month and write about what breaks. Azure, VMware exits, one-person DevOps.

Location Ballwin, MO Joined Joined on  Personal website https://jenatechnologies.com/ github website

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Founder: https://jenatechnologies.com/

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I set out to climb "graph engineering." It was the ladder I'd been standing on for 25 years.
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I set out to climb "graph engineering." It was the ladder I'd been standing on for 25 years.

#ai #architecture #career #devjourney
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I trained my AI agent to burn less money. Here's what actually worked.
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I trained my AI agent to burn less money. Here's what actually worked.

#ai #automation #productivity #devops
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My work gets dismissed as AI slop. Here are the receipts.

Clean writing now triggers false slop accusations
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My work gets dismissed as AI slop. Here are the receipts.

#ai #writing #career #devjourney
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The Weekend I Broke Up with Claude and Moved My Entire Estate
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The Weekend I Broke Up with Claude and Moved My Entire Estate

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I saw the broken email in the preview, blamed my phone, and approved the send anyway.
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I saw the broken email in the preview, blamed my phone, and approved the send anyway.

#automation #testing #email #ai
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I was released from the role of a lifetime. So I built an AI estate that runs while I sleep.
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I was released from the role of a lifetime. So I built an AI estate that runs while I sleep.

#ai #career #automation #devjourney
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I Gave an AI Agent Nightly Merge Rights to Every Repo I Own (With a Budget and a Kill Switch)
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I Gave an AI Agent Nightly Merge Rights to Every Repo I Own (With a Budget and a Kill Switch)

#ai #automation #github #devops
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A Dead-Man's Switch for Scheduled Jobs (Because Silent Failures Rot Data)
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A Dead-Man's Switch for Scheduled Jobs (Because Silent Failures Rot Data)

#devops #serverless #cloudflare #monitoring
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My Auto-Publish Pipeline Shipped a Two-Year-Old News Story. Here's the Fix — All Three Layers of It.
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My Auto-Publish Pipeline Shipped a Two-Year-Old News Story. Here's the Fix — All Three Layers of It.

#ai #automation #serverless #postmortem
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