Welcome to your weekly exploration into the evolving world of application delivery and security. Our host, Lori MacVittie, and occasional co-host, Joel Moses, invite industry guests to join them for deep dives into technologies shaping the future of operations, analyze emerging trends, and discuss the impacts of innovations on the tech stack. 

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AI traffic management: Load balancing vs model routing

AI traffic looks like an API call, but it behaves nothing like traditional API traffic. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Sco...

Agents go rogue: Why guardrails fail and behavior wins

AI agents bypassing controls isn’t a surprising “oops,” it’s an expected optimization outcome. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, ...

If your agent buys it, you bought it: Liability in AI

If an agent breaks it, you bought it. If it buys it, you bought it. That’s not a meme anymore, it’s becoming policy. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, Lori MacVit...

AI blast radius: BOLA + MCP turned APIs into a 7,000-bot army

A developer wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. With Claude Code’s help, he reverse-engineered the protocol, pulled an auth token, and unintentio...

Epic AI fails: Why “useful” isn’t “correct”

AI “epic fails” aren’t just funny headlines; they’re patterns you can design against. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Buu L...

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