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# Core Purpose:
#   Articles and long-form writing authored by Cedric Ancellin, reproduced
#   verbatim. This section grows over time as new pieces are published. It is
#   the thought-leadership record, referenced from Cedric's personal profile.
#   Articles are listed newest first.
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# Verbatim reproductions: text is preserved as published (including original
# wording and typos), and these files are exempt from the em-dash rule.
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# Governed by ../LAWS.
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# Last updated: 2026-10-17
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summary: >
  Cedric Ancellin's published writing, reproduced verbatim with a short summary
  and the original source for each piece. New articles are added here as they
  are published.


articles:
  - title: "The Junior Developer Is Gone. The Junior Product Engineer Isn't."
    published: "2026-10-17"
    platform: "zc8.com"
    file: "published/the_junior_developer_is_gone"
    linkedin_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/junior-developer-gone-product-engineer-isnt-cedric-ancellin-p4eme/"
    cover_image: "/assets/articles/the_junior_developer_is_gone.jpg"
    topics: ["junior developers", "hiring", "product engineering", "AI coding agents", "ontology", "knowledge base", "data modeling", "agent security"]
    summary: >
      Why Cedric will recruit junior product engineers rather than junior
      developers, why he argues degrees matter more with AI rather than less,
      and the two-phase screening test he is building: an ontology and schema
      in a knowledge base with no code written, then an AI build from that
      knowledge, with security watched throughout.

  - title: "Zero Trust is being rewritten"
    published: "2026-10-11"
    platform: "LinkedIn (Pulse)"
    file: "published/zero_trust_is_being_rewritten"
    source_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zero-trust-being-rewritten-cedric-ancellin-y29de/"
    cover_image: "/assets/articles/zero_trust_is_being_rewritten.jpg"
    topics: ["zero trust", "AI coding agents", "agent security", "least privilege", "product specification", "ontology"]
    summary: >
      Zero trust now has to cover the AI agents engineers work with. Five
      public incidents, why approval prompts are not a control, and the two
      controls to use instead (an isolated least-privilege environment and an
      independent audit), with the specification and the system ontology
      becoming the main control.

  - title: "We are Worrying about the Wrong Problem"
    published: "2026-10-04"
    platform: "LinkedIn (Pulse)"
    file: "published/we_are_worrying_about_the_wrong_problem"
    source_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-worrying-wrong-problem-cedric-ancellin-xsgre/"
    cover_image: "/assets/articles/we_are_worrying_about_the_wrong_problem.jpg"
    topics: ["AI and the workforce", "junior developers", "talent pipeline", "humanoid robotics", "future of work"]
    summary: >
      Why Cedric no longer plans to hire junior developers, what that does to
      the pipeline that produces tomorrow's experts, and how humanoid robots
      will bring the same question to physical labor and to society.

  - title: "Growing Your Bottle Service Revenue"
    published: "2017-06-22"
    platform: "LinkedIn (Pulse)"
    file: "published/growing_your_bottle_service_revenue"
    source_url: "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/growing-your-bottle-service-revenue-cedric-ancellin/"
    cover_image: "/assets/articles/growing_your_bottle_service_revenue.jpg"
    topics: ["bottle service", "nightlife commerce", "deposits and payments", "PCI compliance", "3D venue maps"]
    summary: >
      How UrVenue built the systems to sell and manage nightclub table service:
      why a 20 to 30% deposit beats full prepayment, PCI-compliant tokenized
      PreAuths, 3D venue maps, and the efficiency and revenue gains for venues
      (nearly 8,000 online payments and over $20M processed in 2016).


see_also:
  personal_profile:
    $ref: "https://zc8.com/profile"
    note: "This writing is thought leadership under Cedric's personal profile."
  urvenue_section:
    $ref: "https://zc8.com/urvenue/overview"
    note: "Several articles relate to UrVenue's products and history."


implicit:
  - "Each entry links to a verbatim file under published/ and to the original source."
  - "More articles will be added; keep the verbatim files faithful to the originals and always cite the source URL."