Vibe Coding's Dirty Secret: Comprehension Debt
Vibe coding promises faster development, but comprehension debt is the hidden cost. When developers ship code they don't understand, maintenance nightmares follow....
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....
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....
Static Sites Still Win
Static sites load faster, cost less, and break less than dynamic alternatives. Here's why the simplest web architecture keeps winning against modern complexity....
Assembly Never Left: Why I Still Write It in 2026
Assembly language isn't a relic - it's essential for voice AI, cryptography, and performance-critical paths....
SQLite: Software Done Right
SQLite runs on more devices than any software in history. The serverless database that taught the industry what 'done right' actually means....
LLMs Have No Intent: Why That Makes Them Dangerous
LLMs are amoral pattern engines that will confidently lie because confident lies were in the training data....
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....
LeCun's Bet Against LLMs: Why the AI Contrarian Might Be Right
Yann LeCun is betting that large language models are a dead end for AGI. His new startup AMI Labs pursues world models instead....
Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything
Grace Hopper's famous nanosecond wire demonstration—and why understanding physical constraints still matters for every system we build today....
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....
The Anatomy of High-Velocity Teams
The traits that high-performing engineering teams share have nothing to do with methodology certifications....
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