The MetalBear Blog

Deep dives, how-tos, and field notes on Kubernetes development and AI-driven software engineering. From the MetalBear team, the company behind mirrord.

Six Claude Code Skills That Close the AI Agent Feedback Loop
Six Claude Code Skills That Close the AI Agent Feedback Loop

We shipped six Agent Skills that teach AI coding agents how and when to use mirrord, packaged as a single install for Claude Code, Cursor, …

May 13, 2026 · 5 min Read more →
How AI Might Be Making Your CI Pipeline Obsolete
How AI Might Be Making Your CI Pipeline Obsolete

AI coding agents push code every few minutes, but most teams are still running the same CI pipelines designed for human-paced development. …

Apr 29, 2026 · 6 min Read more →
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.36 Release
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.36 Release

Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru' graduates Mutating Admission Policies and User Namespaces to stable, expands DRA with fallback scheduling and device …

Apr 23, 2026 · 12 min Read more →
What Happens After AI Writes the Code
What Happens After AI Writes the Code

AI wrote the code, the unit tests passed, and CI failed two hours later. Here's why that keeps happening and how to fix it.

Apr 15, 2026 · 6 min Read more →
How to Work with Server-Side Rendered Frontends Locally
How to Work with Server-Side Rendered Frontends Locally

Developing server-side rendered frontends locally is painful — your code can't reach cluster-internal services, and local setups never match …

Apr 7, 2026 · 5 min Read more →
How To Prevent Token Burn Using mirrord With E2E Tests
How To Prevent Token Burn Using mirrord With E2E Tests

TDD for the age of AI.

Apr 1, 2026 · 6 min Read more →
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