#technical-debt

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The 10-Minute AI POC That Becomes a 10-Month Nightmare

Five lines of Python and an API key produce a working demo. The gap between that demo and a production system contains failure modes the prototype...

Why Your AI Strategy is Actually a Spreadsheet Strategy

Most enterprise AI transformations are solving problems that spreadsheets handle at 1/50th the cost. The misalignment is driven by career incentives,...

Tech Debt Velocity: Measuring the True Cost of Shortcuts

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...