I shipped a DevSecOps tool in 2026 with zero LLM calls. On purpose. I think determinism still wins.

Let me get one thing out of the way before the comments section catches fire. I am not a luddite. I use AI all day. This article was outlined in Cursor, the tool I am about to describe was built with heavy help from Claude Code, and my IDE autocomplete is so spicy these days that I sometimes forget I am the one supposed to be writing the code. That is normal in 2026. Pretending otherwise would be ridiculous. The point of this article is something else. The point is: the shipped product itself...