Topic

AI Silo

A collection of 4 issues

When AI Ships Too Fast: The Real Debt Isn’t Only Technical

AI has made shipping feel absurdly easy. In the Bay Area, it’s almost normal now to see a solo builder go from “idea” to “working MVP” in a weekend. If you’re a one-person team, AI can genuinely feel like having a full stack of teammates: PM, designer, engineer,

AI now worries about performance. We, as developers, must worry about

When I was deep in hands-on development years ago, I had to understand the inner workings of databases to achieve acceptable performance. Even a small change in query casing could cause cache aging out, leading to HDD hits and a dramatic drop in speed. To avoid this, I spent countless

When AI Speeds Us Up, But Slows Down How Teams Actually Learn

After almost two decades of building and managing software teams, I’ve never seen development move as fast as it does now. A bug pops up? Ask AI. Need a quick draft of a feature spec? Ask AI. Trying a new architecture? Ask AI first, docs later. It’s convenient.

AI Made Us Faster — But It Also Created a New Problem: The AI Silo

Why the age of AI requires even stronger human collaboration As AI tools rapidly accelerate the pace of work, it feels like every role — from product to design to engineering — can now execute faster than ever before. With a single prompt, prototypes can appear, features can be implemented, logic can