When Your AI Assistant Crashes Your Infrastructure

How an AI assistant saturated SSH connections, crashed a Pi, triggered rate limiting, and why that incident led to mandatory safety rules for AI-assisted infrastructure management.

January 12, 2026 · 5 min · 917 words · Chris Hughes

Your Security Tools Only Protect What They Can See

Running CrowdSec felt safe until a routine audit revealed SSH brute force attacks going completely undetected - because the security tool was watching the wrong log source.

January 12, 2026 · 4 min · 685 words · Chris Hughes