The Junior Developer Extinction Event
Entry-level software engineering positions have dropped 60% since 2022. A Harvard study found companies cut junior hiring before AI can replace those roles....
The Test Coverage Lie
Test coverage is a lying metric. 95% coverage with no behavior checks is theater. What to measure instead if you actually care about correctness....
45+ Years in Technology: A Journey
From programming at age 7, to seeing the world in the Navy, to running 3,000+ AWS instances....
Building Software for Government: What Nobody Tells You
Government procurement is maddening. Security requirements are exhaustive. The pace is glacial....
Why I Still Trust Make Over Modern Build Tools
A contrarian defense of Make (1976) over modern JavaScript build tools. Make is boring, understood, and still works....
Agentic AI's 40% Failure Rate: The Correction Nobody Wants
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027....
Why PostgreSQL Keeps Winning
PostgreSQL dominates the 2025 StackOverflow survey with 55.6% market share....
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Developers Are 19% Slower
METR's randomized controlled trial found experienced developers are 19% slower with AI coding tools. The twist: they believed they were 20% faster....
AI Coding Tools Have No Institutional Memory
AI coding assistants are stateless. They don't remember your architectural decisions, past bugs, or team conventions....
The GPU Shortage Aftermath
The AI boom created a GPU shortage that's reshaping how companies think about compute access and infrastructure....
3,000 AWS Instances Later: The Real Cost of Cloud
What it actually cost to run 3,000 AWS instances in 2014: the bill, the surprises, and the architecture decisions that drove the spend....
The Dirty Secret of AI Video Generation
AI video generation looks impressive in demos because those clips are selected from dozens of attempts....
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