Why Voice AI Demos Always Work (And Production Never Does)
Voice AI demos work perfectly. Production deployments fail. After a decade building speech systems, here's why the gap exists and how to bridge it....
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....
The Death of the Technical Blog Post
Technical blog posts were searchable, skimmable, and copy-pasteable. Video tutorials are none of these. The shift happened for economic reasons, not educational ones....
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....
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....