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Shift left into runtime: Vibe coding and AI guardrails
Coding pipelines are evolving and AI agents are taking the wheel. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Joel Moses teams up with Buu Lam to dive into “vibe codin...
Taking a holiday break – Pop Goes the Stack returns after New Year’s!
Hi, Pop Goes the Stack listeners! The holiday season is here, and we’re taking a short break to recharge, enjoy time with loved ones, and maybe step away from our stac...
Reshaping the web for AI agents and LLMs
The web we built—a tangle of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, APIs, and SEO quirks—has always been messy. But with AI agents and real-time apps now consuming the web as data, th...
Five nines of wrong: Detecting drift and errors in AI systems
Uptime used to mean reliability. But in the LLM era, five nines just means your liar is always available. Real reliability now includes correctness and that means prob...
Now you see me, now you don't: Ephemeral Auth and AI agents
Agents are popping up everywhere: tiny bots spinning up for a task, then dying off. They shouldn’t carry long-lived credentials any more than you carry a master key ev...
Holiday hiatus: Revisiting tech trends, AI, and more!
Hi everyone! This is Lori MacVittie, host of Pop Goes the Stack. This holiday week, we’re pressing pause to recharge, spend time with loved ones, and maybe even step a...
BOLA exploits: The #1 API threat and how to stop it
The 2025 API Threat Report is out, and shocker: we’re still getting wrecked by injection, data leaks, and BOLA. That’s Broken Object Level Authorization, for those of ...
MCP tools and AI risks: The case for slow, secure adoption
Remember when APIs were quiet little endpoints that waited politely for humans to click buttons? Yeah, that’s over. Now you’ve got swarms of LLM agents duct-taping too...
LLM-as-a-Judge: Bias, Preference Leakage, and Reliability
Here's the newest bright idea in AI: don’t pay humans to evaluate model outputs, let another model do it. This is the “LLM-as-a-judge” craze. Models not just spitting ...
We're on a brief hiatus, we'll be back soon
We’re on a brief hiatus. But don’t worry—we’ll be back shortly with more sharp insights, expert takes, and of course Lori's signature snark to help you navigate the ev...
Bots vs Business: AI Fraud & Defending Your Margins
A North Carolina musician was arrested after using AI to generate fake bands and bots to stream their songs—racking up over a billion plays and pocketing $10 million i...
Crossing the streams
Prompt injection isn't some new exotic hack. It’s what happens when you throw your admin console and your users into the same text box and pray the intern doesn’t find...
Agentic APIs Have PTSD
Your APIs were designed for humans and orderly machines: clean request, tidy response, stateless, rate-limited. Then along came agentic AI—recursive, stateful, jittery...
When Context Eats Your Architecture
Anthropic lobbed a million-token grenade into the coding wars, and suddenly every AI startup with a “clever context management” pitch looks like it’s selling floppy di...
The DPU Awakening: Silicon Muscle for AI Mayhem
This week on Pop Goes the Stack, we crack open the next frontier of enterprise infrastructure: DPUs (Data Processing Units). AI factories aren’t just stressing your ne...
Less small talk, more substance
Everyone’s chasing generative AI for flash, but a quiet revolution is happening where the real money is: predictive AI. In this episode, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Mose...
The perimeter has shifted
The perimeter isn’t where you left it. Agents are on the move, APIs are on fire, and your infrastructure is about as ready for this as a fax machine is for a DDoS. In ...
AI Joel: Who owns him?
In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora delve into the complex issue of ownership with respect to your AI-driven digital ...
Old is New Again: Bandwidth will be the AI bottleneck
AI doesn't just chew up compute—it eats your network for breakfast. In this episode of Pop Goes the Stack, F5's Lori MacVittie, Joel Moses, and Ken Arora dig into the ...
Fine-tuning on a Budget
Big models, tight budgets? No problem. In this episode of Pop Goes the stack, hosts Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses talk with Dmitry Kit from F5's AI Center of Excellenc...