Spicy takes on tech, tools, and productivity theater
AI code assistants promise productivity. They deliver it. But are you building muscle or atrophy? A brutally honest take on the hidden cost of convenience.
GraphQL solved over-fetching by moving complexity from the client to the server. Now your backend is drowning in resolvers, data loaders, and N+1 query nightmares.
Serverless was supposed to free us from infrastructure. Instead, we got vendor lock-in, unpredictable performance, and bills that grow faster than the features they fund.
Why running large AI models on your laptop is often a disappointing exercise in trading quality for the illusion of privacy, and what Edge AI is actually good at.
The daily standup is sold as agile collaboration, but it's often a 45-minute status report for managers. It's time to call it what it is: performance theater.
Everyone's rushing to put servers everywhere, but most 'edge computing' is just overpriced CDNs with delusions of grandeur. Here's why your distributed system probably didn't need to be distributed.
We've replaced manual deployment pain with notification hell. Here's how the Developer Experience revolution created a new form of suffering: the tyranny of the toolchain.
Why the 'lift and shift' to the cloud is leading to crippling bills, and how mature companies are slashing costs by bringing their workloads back on-prem.
We've replaced human note-takers with artificial intelligence that confidently documents things that never happened. Here's why your meeting bot is lying to you.
We've built the entire internet on a system designed in 1983 for a few hundred computers. Somehow, it still works—but you better know how to work with it.
Why we abandoned perfectly good monoliths for the operational nightmare of microservices, and how the industry gaslighted itself into thinking complexity equals sophistication.
If your code needs a paragraph of explanation to be understood, the problem isn't documentation—it's your code. Here's why most comments are just apologies for bad programming.
TypeScript means well, but it can smother productivity with pedantic type gymnastics. Here's why it's actually brilliant—when you know how to tell it to back off.
The JavaScript ecosystem convinced an entire generation of developers that importing someone else's 11-line function is better than writing their own. Here's why that's insane.