#technical-debt

It started with a Jupyter notebook. 'Look, I built a chatbot in 10 minutes!' Nine months later, three engineers had quit and the company almost folded.

I reviewed 50 'AI transformations' last quarter. 35 were just expensive ways to parse CSV files. Here's why everyone's overengineering simple problems.

Startups burn millions adding AI models to 'improve' systems. The result? Slower performance, higher costs, and complexity no one understands.

The Hidden Cost of Technical Debt: Why 'Just Ship It' Kills Startups: They had product-market fit. Customers loved the product.

Your team shipped 12 features last quarter. This quarter, with the same people and same effort, you shipped 8.

I've watched engineering teams slow to a crawl, not because they hired bad developers or chose wrong technologies, but because they treated technical debt li...

The most expensive software I've ever written was code I wrote "quickly." Not because it was complex, but because I wrote it with the intention of "fixing it...