# Andrew Loutfi

> DevSecOps & IaC Visionary | Clandestine Terraform Architect | AI Engineer.
> Technologist building software tools. Writing on backend and platform engineering.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://aloutfi.com/): who I am and recent writing
- [Writing](https://aloutfi.com/writing): essays and notes
- [About](https://aloutfi.com/about): background and contact
- [Now](https://aloutfi.com/now): current focus
- [Colophon](https://aloutfi.com/colophon): how this site is built

## Writing

- [The load-bearing smoking gun](https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun): An apology that acknowledges the framing, the nuance, and the deeper structural issue without ever saying what happened.
- [AI shi(f)ts the cost to the reader](https://aloutfi.com/writing/ai-shifts-the-cost-to-the-reader): AI can generate a wall of text in seconds. Reading, validating, and owning it still costs a human.
- [Workbench: a development harness I built for myself](https://aloutfi.com/writing/workbench-development-harness): The requirements, failures, Git branches, and worktrees behind the personal harness I use to keep AI coding clients replaceable.
- [Small crumbles and vibe cooking](https://aloutfi.com/writing/small-crumbles): A botched pan of sausage gravy, my fiancée's three questions, and what they taught me about vibe coding.
- [The Myth of Saint Wookington the Brown-Fingered](https://aloutfi.com/writing/saint-wookington): A festival saint, a gerbil named Glorp, and a hovering brown finger pointing eternally toward the Sun Stage. Generated at 2:19 in the morning.

## Contact

- Email: me [at] aloutfi [dot] com
- GitHub: https://github.com/aloutfi
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