Why Rust Won't Replace C
Rust is safer than C. That's not enough. Trillions of lines of C are in production. The learning curve is brutal. Safety-critical domains require certified toolchains. Technology quality doesn't drive...
Hard-won lessons from 45+ years in the trenches.
No optimism theater What actually works
Rust is safer than C. That's not enough. Trillions of lines of C are in production. The learning curve is brutal. Safety-critical domains require certified toolchains. Technology quality doesn't drive...
Unproductive meetings cost $37 billion annually. They're not collaboration - they're organizational bugs. Here's how to diagnose the root cause and fix the process....
Yann LeCun is betting that large language models are a dead end for AGI. His new startup AMI Labs pursues world models instead. Why his contrarian vision might prove correct....
48% of founders planning to sell have no exit strategy. M&A accounts for 85%+ of VC-backed exits. The founders who get the best outcomes planned for them....
MIT-linked studies show 95% of generative AI pilots failed to generate meaningful business impact. The failure patterns and how to avoid them....
Every nation wants AI sovereignty. Only the US and China have anything close to it. The rest are buying sovereignty as a service from the countries they're trying to escape....
Unsolicited advice fails 99% of the time. The gap between the giver's context and the receiver's reality is where well-meaning guidance goes to die. Questions over answers, options over recommendation...
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...
How to see through AI vendor marketing: why demos don't match reality, how accuracy numbers lie, and what questions to ask before buying enterprise AI....
Most meetings are waste disguised as work. The information could have been an email. Teams that default to async outperform teams that fill calendars with meetings....
Modern browsers run untrusted code from millions of sources daily and contain threats successfully. Browser-based applications inherit security properties that native apps can't match....
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