Last year I wrote about distroless containers and finished with a small brag: I build my own minimal base image with apko and Wolfi, look how tiny it is, look how few packages it has.

This year I held that image against the standards that serious hardened-image vendors compete on. It failed.

Not because of what was inside the image. The contents were fine. Six packages, no shell, non-root user, signed with Cosign. It failed because of everything around the image and that is exactly where the state of the art has moved.

Ever found yourself knee-deep in a routing incident at 3 AM, frantically switching between terminals and browser tabs trying to piece together BGP data? I’ve been there. You’re chasing down a routing anomaly, your coffee’s gone cold, and you’re clicking through endless forms just to figure out which AS is announcing that suspicious prefix.

What if I told you that instead of switching between terminals and browser tabs, you could use natural language to describe the problem, and then ask the computer to do the work for you?