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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 11h
Workbrew MSP One platform for every customer’s software need: delivery, updates, vulnerability patching, governance, and free visibility. Start for free: buff.ly/sUcLbrN
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a wrap on JNUC 2026, and what a week. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Workbrew booth & happy hour. We had great conversations with Mac admins and security teams about securing the open source they are running. See you next year 🚀
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Workbrew for MSP Instant software visibility, designed for MSP scale. One platform for every customer's software needs: delivery, updates, vulnerability patching, and governance. Get started for free: buff.ly/AiTAIVp
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
⌘K takes you anywhere in the Console, instantly. Keyboard-driven navigation via the command palette landed in Workbrew 1.11. Type a few characters. Hit enter. You're there. Building Workbrew for how you actually work. Read the release notes: workbrew.com/blog/workbre...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
JNUC is one week away. 👀 We're kicking off the week the right way with drinks, games, and good company with Ravenna and the Mac Admins Foundation. Zero kernel panics guaranteed. 🔗 Register now: workbrew.com/events/jnuc-... #JNUC2026
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
☕ Meet the Crew "I enjoy writing software, but that's not really what drives me; solving painful problems for people is." That's Chad Humphries, who brings two decades in engineering and security leadership to Workbrew. See what he's building next: buff.ly/875LYwX
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
IT Admins 🤝 Developer Approve or deny a package request in the Console, and it's handled. No message to send. The person who asked gets a native macOS notification the second the decision is made. Fewer follow-ups for you. A faster answer for them. Read the blog: buff.ly/nSyQur8
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Explore the 16,304 Homebrew formulae and casks, Workbrew can deploy, patch, and manage across your fleet. Search as you type, or browse by category. Learn more: workbrew.com/catalog/sour...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨 Patch vulnerabilities by severity. Set your thresholds and Workbrew takes it from there. No more triaging every CVE by hand. No more choosing between broken builds and unpatched Criticals. Read the release notes: workbrew.com/blog/workbre...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Workbrew 1.11 is here🚀 Patch by severity, browse 16,000+ Homebrew formulae and casks to deploy, patch, and manage. 🎯 Vulnerability Patching policies 📚 Workbrew Catalog 🔔 On-device notifications for package requests ⌘ Command Palette Read the blog: buff.ly/nSyQur8
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What's actually installed on every developer laptop in your fleet - can you answer it? Most teams spend hours stitching together partial answers. See your fleet's package inventory in under 5 min: buff.ly/sOX5wl4 Workbrew now ISO 27001 certified: buff.ly/PWrfwXw
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Workbrew is now ISO 27001 certified. Building on our existing SOC 2 compliance, our policies, controls, and monitoring meet the bar your auditors expect. Read more: workbrew.com/blog/iso27001 Try for free: workbrew.com/pricing
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Installing Node.js pulls in 58 other packages. Most admins find out when something breaks. Kristján Oddsson helps you understand the Homebrew dependency graph and tackle the blast radius before it becomes a compliance problem. Read more: workbrew.com/blog/homebre...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Becoming a Mac Admin isn't always straightforward. In this new series we look at the unique paths to becoming a Mac Admin. First up: Richard Glaser, who played punk shows by night, saw his dad run an Apple User Group and helped shape Mac OS X. Read the blog: buff.ly/RAiHvlK
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Punk Shows to Patch Management: Richard Glaser's Mac Admin Career - Workbrew Blog
Discover Richard Glaser journey from punk bands to Apple User Groups on his way to Solutions Architect at the University of Utah
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Software update MDM commands are gone. Declarative management isn't the future, it's the standard now. Here's your MacAdmin checklist for what to test before macOS 27 ships: Read it: workbrew.com/blog/wwdc-20...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Kick off your JNUC week the right way. Drinks, games, and good company with Ravenna and Mac Admins Foundation. Zero kernel panics guaranteed. 🔗 RSVP: workbrew.com/events/jnuc-... #JNUC2026
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨Happening today - The 2026 macOSbeta cycle from the field Join David Starr and Tom Bridge for a live conversation on the 2026 macOS beta cycle: what’s actually working, what’s still rough, and what IT teams should be paying attention to as the fall release gets closer. RSVP: buff.ly/YjYoQPA
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Beyond WWDC: What the 2026 macOS beta cycle looks like in the field - Workbrew Webinars
Join David Starr and Tom Bridge for a practical conversation on the 2026 macOS beta cycle: what’s actually working, what’s still rough, and what IT teams should be paying attention to as the fall…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
☕️ Meet the Crew: Adam Selby, Enablement Engineer A decade in IT admin, from University IT to Capital One, now Workbrew. We asked him why he made the jump to a startup, what surprised him most, and what he's building next. Read more: buff.ly/bLwJF81
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fleet + Workbrew Extends your existing Fleet policies to manage who gets brew access and what they can install, across macOS and Linux.Developers get Homebrew without admin rights. Security gets visibility into what's installed. 📄 Deployment guide: buff.ly/1O4cTJ8
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Workbrew ❤️ MacAdmins This fall we're showing up where this community gathers: 🇺🇲 Jamf Live Lounge, Austin - Aug 18 🇺🇲 Jamf Live Lounge, Dallas - Aug 19 🇦🇺 X World, Melbourne - Aug 25-26 🇺🇲 JNUC, Kansas City - Sept 22-25 🇸🇪 MacSysAdmin, Gothenburg - Sept 29-Oct 2 Come say hi 👋 buff.ly/YCCMikz
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
macOS 27 is the last year Rosetta 2 runs at all. If you manage Macs, this is your window to find every Intel-only app, plugin, and extension before it breaks silently. Here's what mac admins need to know: workbrew.com/blog/rosetta...
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Black Hat USA. DEF CON. And now, Four Corners & Silver State User Group meet up. Brandon Valentine joins Jamf & Risotto for a stacked lineup tonight in Vegas, hosted by Mark Juzek. Come grab a brew on us 🍺: luma.com/tqdhy9uk
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Four Corners & The Silver State Jamf Users Group Live in Las Vegas · Luma
Users Group Meetup — Las Vegas 📅 Thursday, August 6th 🕠 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM 📍 Las Vegas We twisted some arms to make this happen — we convinced Ryan and Brian…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Move from "we manage Homebrew" to "we have a defensible security posture around it." Cask Vulnerability Reporting, maps your cask inventory against known CVEs. Learn more: buff.ly/XAesisN
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
☕️ Webinar: The 2026 beta cycle from the field Join David Starr and Tom Bridge for a practical conversation on the 2026 macOS beta cycle: what’s actually working, what’s still rough, and what IT teams should be paying attention to as the fall release gets closer. RSVP: buff.ly/YjYoQPA
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
☕️ Webinar: The 2026 beta cycle from the field Join David Starr and Tom Bridge for a practical conversation on the 2026 macOS beta cycle: what’s actually working, what’s still rough, and what IT teams should be paying attention to as the fall release gets closer. RSVP: buff.ly/YjYoQPA
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
☕️ Webinar: The 2026 beta cycle from the field Join David Starr and Tom Bridge for a practical conversation on the 2026 macOS beta cycle: what’s actually working, what’s still rough, and what IT teams should be paying attention to as the fall release gets closer. RSVP: buff.ly/YjYoQPA
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
MacAdmins PSU Recap 🍦 Ice cream, familiar friends, new faces. More reunion than conference. Check out our session, plus our roundup of the sessions everyone couldn't stop talking about. 🎥 Our session: buff.ly/qd33plV 📝 Recap blog: buff.ly/IogznjX
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📦 Package requests that move at the same speed as your team. ⚡ Instant alerts when a request lands via email, Slack, or webhook 🔄 No more requests falling through the cracks 🔗 Read the 1.10 release notes: buff.ly/XofQQ8W
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨 Happening today - Cask Vulnerability Reporting webinar Learn about Workbrew's cask vulnerability reporting, how to prioritize remediation, and demonstrate control to auditors. Move from "we manage Homebrew" to "we have a defensible security posture around it." 📆 Register now: buff.ly/M2IioOj
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Cask Vulnerability Reporting: Closing the Mac Fleet Security Gap - Workbrew Webinars
Learn how Workbrew's new Cask Vulnerability Reporting surfaces CVEs across your Homebrew fleet. See it live and leave with a remediation plan.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
WWDC Revisited: The MacAdmin Checklist Key insights from the Apple Platform Deployment guide and where you should focus before macOS 27 is available later this year. ✅️ Get the checklist: buff.ly/Uc2tFNE ☕️ Webinar: The 2026 beta cycle from the field: buff.ly/nYXNsIO
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📋Audits are easier when every change is already on the record. Workbrews Activity Log now covers webhooks, Slack integrations, and notification emails detailing who changed it, when, and exactly what. 🔗 buff.ly/XofQQ8W
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hexnode + Workbrew Extends your existing Hexnode policies to manage who gets brew access and what they can install. Developers get Homebrew without admin rights. Security gets policy enforcement and visibility into what's installed. 📄 Deployment guide: buff.ly/BLEAL9d 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/9tFpveZ
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Workbrew Deployment Guide: Hexnode
Workbrew streamlines secure, automated Homebrew package deployment for macOS, integrating seamlessly with Hexnode UEM to give IT teams centralized device management. Homebrew is the de facto package…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You can't manage what you can't see. Workbrew Free gives instant visibility into your Homebrew environment: what's installed, where, and by whom. Zero disruption to developers, essential governance built in. ☕️
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Eliminate Homebrew blind spots - Workbrew Free
You can’t manage what you can’t see. Workbrew Free gives instant visibility into your Homebrew environment, what’s installed, where, and by whom, without slowing developers down. Standardize…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
☕️ Webinar: Cask Vulnerability Reporting: Closing the Mac Fleet Security Gap You know which formulae are patched. Do you know which GUI apps aren't? Join us live to see how Workbrew closes that gap. 📆 Register now: buff.ly/M2IioOj
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
☕️ A day in the life of support engineering "At a bigger company, you'd file an issue and wait. At Workbrew, those walls don't exist, so we can move quickly and make sure our customers aren't left waiting." - Petros Amoiridis Read the blog:
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A Day in the Life: Support Engineering at Workbrew - Workbrew Blog
A day in Workbrew support with engineer Petros: a 48-hour SLA, 100% reply goal, lessons from scaling support at GitHub, and serving macOS IT admins.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🤫🍺 Secret Brew Configurations are now GA in Workbrew 1.10. A token in a config file on every device isn't a solution, store it once, masked. The agent injects it when needed, it never touches the file system. 🔗 buff.ly/XofQQ8W
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
MacAdmins PSU Day 2 recap After kicking off the week, Day 2 at #psumac was jam-packed with great sessions and great discussions! Shoutout to Fleet Device Management for an epic Mario Kart tournament. Standout sessions in 🎤 🧵
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
MacAdmins PSU Day 1 recap. Workshop day and happy hour got things started yesterday, and the energy continued with a full slate of sessions and an ice cream truck we sponsored alongside Risotto. Standout sessions from Day 1, thread below. #psumac 🧵
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🔒 Tap trust Homebrew 6.0 introduced tap trust as a safeguard against malicious taps. Workbrew 1.10 gives admins full control over it, fleet-wide. Private taps, allowed taps, anything pushed from the Console are trusted automatically. 🔗 release notes:
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Workbrew 1.10 release notes - Workbrew Blog
Workbrew 1.10 extends vulnerability tracking to casks, adds native support for Homebrew tap trust, takes Secret Brew Configurations to general availability, and rounds things out with Console…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Don’t let Casks be a blind spot in your fleet. Workbrew 1.10 adds a dedicated Casks tab to the Vulnerabilities page. 🔍 Per-device version breakdowns for every cask 🚨 One-click upgrades for anything outdated 🔗 Full release notes: buff.ly/XofQQ8W 👀 See it in action: buff.ly/M2IioOj
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sharing is caring ❤️‍🩹 Our WWDC panelists were clear: the community learns fastest when practitioners share what's actually working (and what isn't) in the field. Webinar recording: buff.ly/T5qEFw6 Mac Admins Slack #platform-sso: buff.ly/lz5Gfyg
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Workbrew 1.10 is here 🚀 🔍 Cask vulnerability tracking 🔒 Native support for Homebrew Tap Trust 🤫 Secret Brew Configurations 📋 Notification integrations in the Activity Log 🔔 Package request notifications Check out all the details in the release notes:
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Workbrew 1.10 release notes - Workbrew Blog
Workbrew 1.10 extends vulnerability tracking to casks, adds native support for Homebrew tap trust, takes Secret Brew Configurations to general availability, and rounds things out with Console…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Workbrew is heading back to MacAdmins PSU 2026 🍻 Workbrew Happy Hour at Legends (space is limited, grab your spot) 🎤 Modern Software Delivery on macOS with Workbrew 🍦 Ice cream social with Risotto is back See you at State College: buff.ly/GX8iHym
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Workbrew at MacAdmins PSU 2026 - Workbrew Events
MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages devices in the Apple ecosystem. Workbrew is a proud sponsor of the 2026 event.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
 🔁 Complete Private Tap lifecycle management in one place. Connect, monitor, update, remove, all within the Console. No context switching. Read the release notes:
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Workbrew 1.9 release notes - Workbrew Blog
Workbrew 1.9 brings bulk package operations, proactive workspace health notifications, simplified brew CLI access management, and more — reducing the repetitive work of managing Homebrew at scale.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wait, which tab was that command run in? 🤔 Command runs just got faster to execute and easier to track. Workbrew 1.9 consolidates command runs into one view. See full status at a glance and schedule with confidence. Read the release notes: buff.ly/xNTbLdK
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Homebrew isn't just CLI tools. 6,000+ Casks make it one of the best ways to manage Mac apps across your fleet. Here are 11 casks the Workbrew team swears by:
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Our favorite Homebrew casks - Workbrew Blog
Homebrew’s cask inventory is the best way to manage your Mac apps. We asked the Workbrew crew what their favourite Homebrew casks are and which have earned a permanent spot in their setups.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Join the Workbrew crew 🚀 💻 Lead Product Engineer 🍏 Lead Platform Engineer, macOS 🧪 Solutions Engineer 🚀 Account Executive 🔧 GTM Engineer (contract) See the roles and apply: buff.ly/OExa9zO
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Careers at Workbrew - Work at Workbrew
We're a small, globally-distributed team that's focused on building. See our open roles, values, benefits, and hiring process.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
WWDC26 was a lot. New DDM functionality means changes to how you're managing your Mac fleet today. On June 18 our panel will cover what stood out & what surprised them about: 📦Apple services 📱Device management 🔐Identity integration 🛠️App management RSVP: workbrew.com/webinars/wwd...
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WWDC26: What's new for security, developers and IT teams - Workbrew Webinars
WWDC is a landmark event for anyone working in the macOS environment. In this roundtable, we're discussing what the WWDC26 announcements mean for Mac fleet management, security governance, and…
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Homebrew isn't just for CLI tools. There are over 6,000 casks. Suspicious Package, mitmproxy, CleanShot X are some which have earned a permanent spot in our crew's setup. 🍺 Check out the favorite Homebrew Casks our crew trust and love: buff.ly/oREP21B
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Our favorite Homebrew casks - Workbrew Blog
Homebrew’s cask inventory is the best way to manage your Mac apps. We asked the Workbrew crew what their favourite Homebrew casks are and which have earned a permanent spot in their setups.
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Workbrew @workbrew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
When an LLM agent ran `brew install` on a dev's machine last Tuesday, your MDM had no record of it. Your policy didn't flag it. A policy tells you what should happen. Workbrew tells you what actually did. 👀🛡️Does your security stack have eyes on the install layer? buff.ly/k1BcJJ7
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Your newest sysadmin is an LLM - Workbrew Blog
AI coding assistants are silently installing packages across your fleet. Learn how LLMs are becoming sysadmins, why your MDM can't see it, and how to govern Homebrew at scale.
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