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Who writes the constitution of machines?
Dario Amodei wrote 20,000 words on AI risk. He never asked: who writes Claude's moral constitution, and by what authority?
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The Padlock Without a Wall: Why the Open-Core Model Is Dead
A software vendor installs a padlock on their garden gate. But there's no wall around the garden anymore. Just the pa...
The Apple Pie Test
A consultant hid cooking recipes in technical documentation. No one ever noticed. AI agents would—but who decides wha...
Execution Is No Longer the Constraint
For decades, software organizations were shaped by one dominant constraint: development was slow and expensive. That ...
From Peter to Dilbert: How AI Inverts the Management Refuge
The Peter Principle described the rise to incompetence. The Dilbert Principle exposed the refuge in incompetence. AI ...
What Artists Know About AI
What urban sketching taught me about letting AI run for hours. The skill nobody talks about: letting go.
Data Governance 2026: ROI Will Have the Last Word
ROI and time-to-delivery will always kill governance efforts. 2026 will confirm this more than ever.
AI and the End of Cheating
Work doesn't function as prescribed. It functions because people cheat. AI doesn't cheat. That's its problem—and ours.
Friction in an Agentic World
Reintroducing friction isn't a bug. It's a political choice. The cost of friction is lower than the cost of fragility.
Collapse through Obedience
An army that obeys perfectly is a defeated army. AI realizes the old Taylorist dream: prescription perfectly executed...
Servitude by Ergonomics
Modern servitude no longer needs constraint. It works through comfort.
AI doesn't cheat (and that's the problem)
AI does what it's told. That's its strength and its limit. It bridges the technical gap but the political gap — knowi...
The Cheating That Makes the World Run
Real work is constant cheating. Tolerated. Necessary. Denied by the very people who benefit from it.
Plunder Is the Feature
Rob Pike screams theft. History yawns.
Google Is Dead. Follow The Eyes
The puck moved. Stop staring at where it was.
The 10X is here. It's a skill issue.
Two months from 'models aren't there' to 'not claiming the 10X boost is a skill issue.' The real skill isn't coding a...
When Photography Killed Painting: The AI Parallel
166 years ago, when photography arrived, the art world had the exact same meltdown we're seeing with AI today. Histor...
AI Reveals: Effort Isn't Value
What happens when friction collapses? AI just did that.
Inverting the Data Testing Pyramid: Optimizing for Time to Insight
The core issue wasn't test coverage. It was what we were optimizing for.
MySQL to S3 with AWS DMS: What actually works in production
I don't like sharing experience reports on specific software. These articles age poorly. But on AWS DMS to S3 we've s...
Lost in the Data Fog? Your Company Might Be Overdosing
Everyone wants to be "data-driven," but no one talks about the dangers of analytical overdose. Too much data, more co...
The Hidden Traps of Scaling Data Operations — and How to Beat Them
Scaling data operations isn't easy, but most obstacles are predictable and avoidable. After speaking with current or ...
If You're Questioning the Value of Your Data Team, You're Asking the Wrong Question
If a colleague, a C-level or just you're (spoiler alert: it's a good News) is asking "What is the value of the data t...
Databricks Cost Management
Best practices for handling and managing Databricks costs - from understanding the cost structure to optimizing compu...
Self Management in Business, or the Lack of Learning Digital 'Hygiene'
I have a two-and-a-half-year-old son who is my pride. This little guy amazes me day after day, and I marvel as much w...
Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn and Opens Up to the Web
Microsoft has just made its biggest acquisition by buying LinkedIn. Beyond the impressive bill left by the purchase (...
Does Digital Make Us Blind?
Our era is branded by the ultra-financialization of a capitalism often described as shameless, exacerbated, and pushi...
From Free Labor to Big Data: How We All Contribute to the Success of GAFA
Take the example of what we call 'self-service.' You have all had the opportunity to work implicitly on the productio...
A Deadly Digital Transformation
I hear a lot about digital transformation. In itself, and this angle is rarely addressed, digital is merely a matter ...
After the Uberization of the Economy: Make Way for Collaborators
Digital is like an endless torrent. Far from being a quiet, peaceful river, it seeps in even where it's not expected....
The Engagement Crisis and the Search for Meaning: From Stoicism to Robotism
We are what we share. But here arises the question of the meaning of action, of sharing. What to do with those who do...