# adelzaalouk.me > Personal blog of Adel Zaalouk — technology, AI, product management, and cloud-native infrastructure. ## Author Adel Zaalouk is a technologist working at the intersection of AI, cloud-native infrastructure, and product strategy. Topics include Kubernetes, OpenShift, AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), agentic systems, and product thinking. - Website: https://adelzaalouk.me - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelzaalouk/ - Newsletter: https://thetechnomist.com/ ## Content Types - **Entries**: Long-form blog posts and technical analyses - **Illustrations**: Interactive diagrams and architecture explorations - **Highlights**: Extracted quotes and notes from entries - **Links**: Curated links with commentary ## Recent Posts - [The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI's Real Cost Is Human Attention](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/25/human-verification-bandwidth/): AI scales execution to near-zero cost. But verifying that output stays biologically bounded. The bottleneck was never intelligence. It's human verification bandwidth. [co-authored with AI] - [Shrinking the Verification Gap: Practical Patterns for AI-Assisted Development](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/25/verification-practices-ai-agents/): If AI scales execution and verification is the bottleneck, the winning move is to make verification cheaper. Here are the patterns that actually work. [co-authored with AI] - [I Vibe-coded an open registry for AI agents](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/24/vibe-coded-open-registry-ai-agents/): Container registries store bytes. They don't know what's inside. The Agent Registry is a governance layer for AI agents, skills, and MCP servers, built on A2A AgentCard, MCP server.json, and Agent Skills as native identity formats. [co-authored with AI] - [Don't Teach Your Agents Karate](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/22/agent-access-control-zero-code-security/): Every agent team rebuilds the same auth, rate limiting, and credential management. I built an agent gateway for Kubernetes that generates it all from two CRDs so the people building agents never touch security and the people running the platform never touch agent code. [co-authored with AI] - [Your terminal is an AI runtime now](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/22/terminals-agents-and-the-control-plane-nobody-built/): AI coding agents pulled developers back to the terminal. But the data says the real split isn't CLI versus GUI. It's about what you're doing. [co-authored with AI] - [If AI Can Code, Who Makes the Call?](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/16/builder-model-product-managers/): The builder model is appealing and mostly wrong. Faster building means more need for someone deciding what to build, not less. - [n8n on OpenShift: Workflow Automation That Talks to Your Models](https://adelzaalouk.me/2026/Feb/16/deploying-n8n-on-openshift/): n8n is good at workflow automation. But when your workflows touch internal models and sensitive data, you need it on the same cluster. Here's how to deploy n8n on OpenShift and wire it into vLLM and OpenShift AI. - [Standardizing AI Value? The Tech and Economics Behind Anthropic's MCP](https://adelzaalouk.me/2025/Mar/30/standardizing-ai-value-the-tech-and/): Decoding MCP's Technology, Market Impact, and Potential as a Foundational AI Standard. - [RAG Reigns Supreme: Why Retrieval Still Rules!](https://adelzaalouk.me/2025/Mar/15/rag-reigns-supreme-why-retrieval/): RAG is dead, Long-Live RAG - [The Technomist on AI: Volume 2024 - 2025 Outlook](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Dec/29/the-technomist-on-ai-volume-2024/): Sifting Through 2024, Gazing at 2025 - [Generative AI's Growing Tech Debt: Managing the Ripple Effect](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Oct/20/generative-ais-growing-tech-debt/): Prepare for the Next Wave of (Generative) AI - [The Transient Nature of Prompt Engineering: A Call for More Robust Language Models](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Oct/17/the-transient-nature-of-prompt-engineering/): Moving Beyond the Hack Towards Robust and User-Friendly Language Models - [The AI Cybersecurity Market: Navigating Opportunities and Risks](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Oct/13/the-ai-cybersecurity-market-navigating/): Understanding the key trends and opportunities. - [Balancing the Yin/Yang of AI Emergence](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Aug/31/balancing-the-yinyang-of-ai-emergence/): With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility - [Customer-Obsession, Powered by the Internet & AI as Enablers: The Bazos Narrative](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Aug/22/customer-obsession-powered-by-the/): Invent on the customer's behalf - [Beyond LLMs: Compounds Systems, Agents, and Whole AI Products](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Aug/6/beyond-llms-compounds-systems-agents/): A Framework for Building Great AI Products - [Jacks of All Trades, Masters of One, and the Model Production Frontier!](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Jun/25/jack-of-all-trades-masters-of-one/): Do the right thing! - [History, AI, and Non-Consumption: Part II, The Innovation Paradox](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Jun/9/history-ai-and-non-consumption-part-2e9/): Exploring Innovation Lifecycles through the Lens of AI - [AI Market Dynamics: Open Vs. Closed, Direct Vs. Indirect](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/May/26/ai-market-dynamics-open-vs-closed/): Understanding the AI Market Dynamics, to be or not to be! - [History, AI, and Non-Consumption: Part I, Winter is Coming](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/May/17/history-ai-and-non-consumption-part/): From Ancient Dreams to Modern Realities - [PESTELing NVIDIA's Market CAP](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/May/7/pesteling-nvidias-market-cap/): Analyzing the Impact of External factors on NVIDIA's Market Cap - [Pre-training and Fine-tuning Mindmap!](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/May/4/pre-training-and-fine-tuning-mindmap/): A detailed mindmap explaining pretraining and finetuning - [Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Kungfu!](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/May/4/pre-training-fine-tuning-and-kungfu/): From Novice to Apprentice - [Platforms, Products, APIs, and Indian Food](https://adelzaalouk.me/2024/Apr/23/platforms-products-apis-and-indian/): Navigating the Nuances of Platforms + Strategies for Success - [Product-Market Fit: When to Build vs Buy](https://adelzaalouk.me/2023/Dec/26/pmf/): When should a startup create a Platform team? And when they do, should they build everything from scratch or buy off-the-shelf solutions? - [Sandboxed Vs. Vanilla Runtimes](https://adelzaalouk.me/2021/Nov/17/sandboxed-vs-vanilla/): If you are curious how sandboxed containers look like from the inside compared to normal containers, this thread will be covering the basics. {{