Bryan O'Neill, CTO of FormAssembly, wrote a piece tracing three decades of the same mistake: - In the 1990s, some companies paid engineers per line of code, and got bloated, unmaintainable software …
Why AI Adoption Really Stalls
The people who hang back longest in AI adoption programmes are rarely the least capable. I have noticed this pattern repeat across teams: AI adoption resistance concentrates in the experienced, the …
Code Isn’t Product: The Discovery Debt AI Is Creating
There is a number that does not appear in most AI productivity reports: the percentage of AI-accelerated products that customers actually use. I call this gap discovery debt. Rich Mironov recently …
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You Can’t Build a Centaur
In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management. His argument: break any task, however complex, into its constituent movements, optimise each one, and assemble the …
AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built
There is a version of the AI transformation conversation I keep hearing from senior leaders, and it goes roughly like this: AI can surface dependencies, summarise context, reduce the cost of …
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Automation Is a Lie
That is how Dan Shipper put it on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast last week. Shipper runs Every, a media and software company that has been operating as a live experiment in AI-native work for the past two …