The Hidden Costs of AI Calendar Negotiators
AI calendar tools promise to eliminate scheduling friction. But removing that friction removes something valuable: control over your priorities and time....
The AI Code Review Bottleneck: When Speed Creates Gridlock
AI coding assistants generate code faster than ever, but PR review has become the new bottleneck. Teams deliver slower despite individual developers moving faster....
The Coming Collapse of AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants promised 55% productivity gains but METR found developers are 19% slower. Quality plateaued in 2025, technical debt exploded 8x, and the gap between benchmarks and production real...
Agentic AI's 40% Failure Rate: The Correction Nobody Wants
Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. The reasons are predictable: unclear ROI, agent washing, and deployments without governance....
AI Coding Tools Have No Institutional Memory
AI coding assistants are stateless. They don't remember your architectural decisions, past bugs, or team conventions. This creates a specific kind of technical debt—code that looks correct but violate...
Agentic AI Is Just Automation With Better Marketing
Strip away the marketing and 'agentic AI' is workflow automation with LLM steps. Useful, but not the revolution the vendors are selling....
The Speech-to-Speech Revolution: When 300ms Changes Everything
Speech-to-speech AI has crossed the 300ms latency threshold where interactions feel like genuine conversation. What this means for voice interfaces and where it still fails....
What AI Agents Won't Replace
AI agents have real limits. They won't replace judgment, empathy, expertise, or physical labor. Understanding these boundaries is essential for successful deployment....
The Hidden Cost of AI Calendar Assistants
AI calendar assistants claim massive time savings, but rigorous research reveals a productivity paradox: tools that make you feel faster actually make you slower while introducing hidden costs....
Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing)
Current AI agents don't learn - they retrieve. New research on reinforcement learning for memory could change that. Understanding why your AI agent keeps making the same mistakes....
AI Art Is Actually Good for Artists
The panic over AI image generation misses how it's actually helping working artists be more productive and creative....
Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released
I built Web Spy - a desktop app that crawled and cached websites for offline reading. This was before HTTrack, before Pocket, before Instapaper. Never shipped it....