Google Search Decline Is Overstated
The narrative that Google Search is dying ignores what it's still best at and where alternatives actually win....
Against the grain. Questioning conventional wisdom, challenging industry consensus, and saying what others won't.
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Standups, sprints, and story points without the underlying values. How Agile became a certification industry that produces the opposite of agility.
The narrative that Google Search is dying ignores what it's still best at and where alternatives actually win....
Test coverage metrics measure code execution, not verification. High coverage with weak assertions is worse than lower coverage with strong assertions - it provides false confidence....
METR's randomized controlled trial found experienced developers are 19% slower with AI coding tools. The twist: they believed they were 20% faster....
Only 1 in 4 teams keep standups under 15 minutes. The ceremony has consumed the purpose. Here's how standups became theater and what actually works instead....
Despite $600M funding rounds and $27B market projections, drone delivery faces physics constraints that money can't solve: 20-minute battery life, 5-pound payloads, 10 hours of flyable weather per day...
A monolith with good tests is better than 50 microservices with distributed debugging nightmares. When to use microservices: when you've proven you need them....
Open source software has a price tag of $0 and a total cost of ownership that can dwarf commercial alternatives. The 'free' in free software refers to freedom, not cost....
ORMs hide the database until they don't, create performance traps, and solve the wrong problem. SQL is the better abstraction. A contrarian take from 30 years of database work....
The security industry profits from fear. Most breaches have minimal impact while companies overspend on exotic threats....
The panic over AI image generation misses how it's actually helping working artists be more productive and creative....
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse. What separates teams that recover from teams that don't....
Technical interviews optimize for competitive coding skills that rarely matter in actual work. What we should test instead - and how hiring could improve....
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