What AI Agents Cannot Do (And Will Not, Anytime Soon)
AI agents have hard limits. They will not replace judgment, empathy, expertise, accountability, or physical labor. Five things knowledge workers still own....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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