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alierfan

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About alierfan

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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    Show HN: Skilldeck – Desktop app to manage AI agent skill files across tools

    Skill files (.claude/skills/, .cursor/rules/*.mdc, AGENTS.md, .windsurfrules) are becoming a core part of AI-assisted development workflows. The problem: they scatter across projec…

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    Comment #47713164

    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 m…

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    Comment #47713065

    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 …