Open Source Is Struggling and Open Source Might Be the Answer
The social construct is fraying. The principle is thriving. The distinction between the two is the only thing that matters.…
Prod is the only Test that Matters
Organizations optimize for the risk of change while silently accruing the far greater risk of irrelevance. The practitioners solved this decades ago. The structure just won't listen.…
WASM Isn't Always Faster
WebAssembly delivers on its promise, but the promise is more specific than the marketing suggests. The advantage isn't raw speed — it's predictable performance in the face of computational unpredictability.…
Deploy From Here
The centralized CI/CD pipeline was the right bridge for its era. Containers, powerful workstations, and agentic tooling put us on the other side.…
Token Spend is a Vanity Metric
The companies pulling back aren't proving AI doesn't work. They're proving that vanity metrics and unlimited budgets are a bad combination regardless of the technology.…
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
A person without a position is a person without a signal. And no signal means no relevance.…
High-Performing Teams Were Always Agentic
The playbook for building great AI systems is the same one we've ignored for human teams since 2009.…
Mythos vs. the Monolith
Anthropic announced recently that their new Mythos model is too dangerous to release to the public. It can find vulnerabilities and exploit them at a rate never before seen. And while many of us are taking this news with a grain of salt since all the AI companies are in…