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Notes from the forge

Engineering notes, analysis, and perspectives from NorForge: what we see while building, modernizing,
and resolving complex software platforms, alongside our thoughts and opinions on broader industry trends.

A Cairn control panel tracking targets, time to goal and goal rate over a map of attack paths.

Inside Cairn: Open Windows into massive AI-Driven Cyber Operations

More than 20 exposed Cairn panels give an unusually detailed view of how threat actors select targets, direct autonomous agents, exploit vulnerabilities, and establish persistent access to compromised systems.

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Erlend Oftedal on the Builders & Breakers podcast with STÖK and Kugg.

AI hackbots found another hundred vulnerabilities. Who fixes them?

I sat down with STÖK and Kugg on the Builders & Breakers podcast. We talked about the gap between finding vulnerabilities and fixing them, and what you can do about it before your backlog eats you alive.

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Office towers at night, their windows lit against the dark.

Why AI Programs Stall Before Scale

What separates the 8% of firms that scaled Generative AI from the rest: hidden usage, legacy data foundations, unreliable output, and a shrinking skills base. Each barrier comes with the figures behind it.

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Sunlit clouds against an orange sky.

Field notes: running Cloudflare’s open-source security-audit-skill on a real codebase

Cloudflare open-sourced a skill that turns a coding agent into a security audit swarm. We ran it on a large open-source monorepo. Notes on what it does, what it demands, and what it found.

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