Google's $10 Billion Null Pointer
A meditation on hubris, humility, and why your grandpa's advice about checking your inputs still matters in the age of hyperscale.
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The Real AI Question: How Do We Build Systems That Require Less Code?
In the AI race, we're asking the wrong question. Everyone optimizes for code generation speed—'How fast can we build?'—but the better question is: How do we build systems that require less code? The real power lies in reducing complexity, not generating it faster.
The Aristotelian Approach to Writing Good Programs: Logic as the Foundation of Code
After years of debugging disasters, I discovered the secret isn't the latest framework—it's 2,400-year-old logic from Aristotle. These axioms map perfectly to reliable code that actually works.
The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype
AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects. The most valuable skill isn't writing code, it's designing coherent systems.