The Coming Collapse of AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants promised 55% productivity gains but METR found developers are 19% slower....
Why Most AI Startups Will Fail by 2027
Why a wave of AI startups will collapse in 2027: unsustainable unit economics, model commoditization, and the venture math that no longer works....
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....
Agentic AI's 40% Failure Rate: The Correction Nobody Wants
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027....
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Developers Are 19% Slower
METR's randomized controlled trial found experienced developers are 19% slower with AI coding tools. The twist: they believed they were 20% faster....
AI Coding Tools Have No Institutional Memory
AI coding assistants are stateless. They don't remember your architectural decisions, past bugs, or team conventions....
The Dirty Secret of AI Video Generation
AI video generation looks impressive in demos because those clips are selected from dozens of attempts....
AI Content Farms Are Killing Search
AI content farms have flooded search results with machine-generated text optimized for ranking, not accuracy....
Observability Theater: When Dashboards Replace Understanding
The observability market is projected to reach $172 billion by 2035, yet alert fatigue is epidemic and nobody can say why the system is slow....
Agentic AI Is Just Automation With Better Marketing
Strip away the marketing and 'agentic AI' is workflow automation with LLM steps. Useful, but not the revolution the vendors are selling....
Serverless Was a Lie
Serverless was a lie for most teams. The cold starts, vendor lock-in, and observability gaps that make it the wrong default for most workloads....
The MVP Excuse: When 'Minimum' Became an Excuse for Garbage
MVP was meant to be a discipline for validated learning, not permission to ship half-finished software....
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