Voice to Context to Action: A Framework for Operational Voice AI
Radio traffic is operational intelligence that vanishes into air. This framework for voice AI captures, interprets, and acts on voice data in minutes instead of hours....
The Framework Treadmill: Why We Keep Relearning the Same Problems
The JavaScript framework ecosystem keeps solving the same problems with new syntax every 2-3 years. State management, routing, data fetching - we've reinvented these solutions dozens of times since 20...
Blockchain: The Solution Looking for a Problem
Blockchain has been 'revolutionary' for 15 years without revolutionizing anything. Every enterprise blockchain quietly becomes a regular database....
Founder Ego Kills Startups Faster Than Bad Code
Startups die from ego before they die from competition. Pride that can't hear feedback, founders who can't fire themselves, and the delusion that vision equals execution. 45 years of watching it happe...
Technical Debt Isn't Debt - It's Rot
Debt implies payback. You won't. It compounds faster than interest. Every startup that says 'we'll clean it up after we raise' never does....
How 'Piracy' Actually Helped Technology Move Forward
Software piracy in the 80s and 90s built the networks, protocols, and communities that became legitimate tech infrastructure. BitTorrent, streaming, cloud storage - all have roots in the scene....
Code Review Is Broken
Code review as practiced by most teams is a bottleneck that provides less value than we pretend. Small PRs, distributed reviewing, and time SLAs can fix it....
I Work Faster Alone
After 45 years in tech, I know I work faster alone. The collaboration-industrial complex says more interaction is always better. My shipped code says otherwise....
The Real Cost of Cheap GPUs
Alternative GPU clouds offer 50-80% savings over hyperscalers. The AI revolution is being democratized, but AWS would prefer you didn't know....
Agile Is a Cargo Cult
Standups, sprints, and story points without the underlying values. How Agile became a certification industry that produces the opposite of agility....
The Myth of the 10x Engineer
I've been called a 10x engineer - sometimes 20x. The variation in programmer productivity is real. But the way Silicon Valley uses the concept has damaged how organizations build teams....
What Prodigy Taught Me About Walled Gardens
Prodigy invested $1 billion building walls that collapsed when the open internet arrived. The pattern has repeated with every major walled garden since....
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