Hype Scales Faster Than Understanding
A deep dive into why rapid adoption cycles create systemic fragility. When tools are adopted before they are understood, organizations accrue invisible debt that is only paid when the system is stressed.
Most “Innovations” Are Just Rebranded Infrastructure
We peel back the marketing layers of "Serverless 2.0" and "Edge Native" to find the same TCP/IP, Linux kernels, and distributed consensus problems that have existed for decades.
AI Didn’t Change Software — Incentives Did
The "AI Revolution" is as much a financial phenomenon as a technical one. We analyze how ZIRP-endera thinking warped engineering priorities and created a solution in search of a problem.
Velocity Without Direction Is Technical Debt
The "Move Fast and Break Things" era is over. The cost of "breaking things" is now existential. We propose a new metric: Velocity per reliable feature.
Why Tech Narratives Age Faster Than Systems
An examination of the "Hype Cycle" and why betting on the boring, established infrastructure is almost always the superior long-term strategic play.