Small Language Models Will Eat Enterprise AI
Gartner predicts task-specific AI models will be used 3x more than general-purpose LLMs by 2027. Why latency, cost, and privacy push enterprises toward SLMs....
The Local-First Renaissance
Local-first software puts your data on your device first. The cloud becomes optional....
The Senior Engineer Plateau
Only 10-15% of engineers reach Staff level. Why the senior-to-staff jump is the hardest career transition in software....
Every Dependency Is Technical Debt
Every dependency you add is a future liability. Why your package.json is technical debt waiting to compound....
Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing)
Current AI agents don't learn - they retrieve. New research on reinforcement learning for memory could change that....
Computers Are Cheap, Developers Are Expensive
Why premature optimization wastes developer time. The economics of knowing when code is good enough and when performance actually matters....
AI Art Is Actually Good for Artists
The panic over AI image generation misses how it's actually helping working artists be more productive and creative....
The Anatomy of High-Velocity Teams
The traits that high-performing engineering teams share have nothing to do with methodology certifications....
The Anatomy of a Production Outage
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse....
European VC Funding: The Gap Between Headlines and Reality
European AI funding doubled in 2025. But 90% of startups fail and 95% of AI pilots never deliver ROI. What the funding headlines don't tell you....
Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released
I built Web Spy - a desktop app that crawled and cached websites for offline reading. This was before HTTrack, before Pocket, before Instapaper. Never shipped it....
Those Old Programming Books
Dog-eared, coffee-stained, held together by stubbornness and nostalgia. The programming books from the late 1970s that started a 45-year journey in technology....
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