Your Marketing Team Is Now a Software Vendor (opens in new tab)

A DevOps engineer posted on r/devops this week with what reads like a familiar shadow-IT question dressed in 2026 clothes. Marketing, product, and sales people across his AI startup are shipping internal apps with Cursor and Claude Code. They deploy to Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify. The data is real. The authentication is not. The thread hit 119 upvotes and 119 comments in 48 hours. The top reply was two words: "Good luck." The framing of the original post is wrong, and the framing is the...