When Rewrites Actually Succeed
Most rewrites fail, but some succeed. The patterns that separate the 10% from the 90%: scope discipline, team continuity, good-enough architecture, and political protection....
The Speech-to-Speech Revolution: When 300ms Changes Everything
Speech-to-speech AI has crossed the 300ms latency threshold where interactions feel like genuine conversation. What this means for voice interfaces and where it still fails....
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. Understanding this predicts where they'll fail—and why you can't trust their self-reports....
DeFi Will Never Be Finance
DeFi advocates claim they're building the future of finance while removing everything that makes finance work: recourse, recovery, accountability, and insurance. Billions lost to hacks prove the point...
What AI Agents Won't Replace
AI agents have real limits. They won't replace judgment, empathy, expertise, or physical labor. Understanding these boundaries is essential for successful deployment....
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...
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. Why his contrarian vision might prove correct....
Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail
MIT-linked studies show 95% of generative AI pilots failed to generate meaningful business impact. The failure patterns and how to avoid them....
Why I Stopped Giving Advice
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...
Standup Theater: When Agile Becomes Performance
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....
The Drone Delivery Fantasy: Why We're Still 10 Years Away
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...
Why Your AI Vendor Is Lying to You
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....
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