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....
Why Async Communication Beats Meetings (Almost Always)
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....
When AI Coding Actually Helps: Patterns That Work
AI coding tools made experienced developers 19% slower in METR's study. But clear patterns emerge for when they help: unfamiliar territory, boilerplate, documentation, and exploration....
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....
Open Source Isn't Free
Open source software has a price tag of $0 and a total cost of ownership that can dwarf commercial alternatives. The 'free' in free software refers to freedom, not cost....
Why a Priced Round is "Safer" Than a SAFE
Despite the comforting acronym, a SAFE is often anything but safe for a founder. Learn why priced rounds offer better protection for your cap table....
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