Engineering Leadership
The End of the 10x Engineer? Using Engineering in the Age of AI
Outstanding engineers are still important. The difference lies in the multiplier of the engineer – and how wrong our measures are in placing it.
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Software Engineering
SwiftUI Is Growing Up: Apple's Latest APIs Signal a Shift Toward Building Larger, Faster Apps
The newest SwiftUI release isn't just about convenience APIs, it marks another step in Apple's long-term effort to make declarative UI suitable for professional, document-heavy, and performance-critical applications.
Data & Analytics
The Data Lakehouse Is Becoming an Operating System for AI Agents
The metaphor is useful in exactly four places, and misleading everywhere else. Knowing which is which decides whether your agents are trustworthy.
Software Engineering
Building Production-Grade Agentic Workflows in Java with Quarkus
A step-by-step guide on adding Agentican workflows to Quarkus applications using the Agentican framework, using YAML and annotations.
Tech & Society
The Wrong Question About AI: What if Picasso had ChatGPT?
A thought experiment about friction, taste, and whether a machine can join a revolution.
AI & Machine Learning
World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance
FIFA has given every team the same AI agent. That is the beginning of the competition, not the end of it.
Tech & Society
AI Validation Culture: Why People Are Asking ChatGPT for Life Decisions
Should I quit my job? Should I get divorced? Should I move abroad? A growing number of people are typing these questions into a chat box - and getting an answer back.
Tech & Society
The Loneliness Paradox: Why AI Companions Could Make Social Isolation Worse
They never tire, they never get busy, and they never disagree unless you ask them to. Maybe that's the problem.
Tech & Society
When Platforms Become Vectors: Digital Governance Failures, Examination Fraud, and the Systemic Risks of Blunt Regulatory Intervention
This analysis draws on documented reporting of the 2026 NEET-UG re-examination fraud case, comparative examination integrity research, and published platform moderation data.
AI & Machine Learning
AI is becoming our second brain. What does it mean for mental health?
Shifting responsibility for memory, decisions, and even feelings to an algorithm can ease the burden. But it can also subtly weaken the muscles that allow us to carry it ourselves.
AI & Machine Learning
The reason so many AI projects don’t make it to deployment
You can have all the technical prowess in the world, and it still won’t be enough. What really decides if an AI system gets put into production or is left to wither away as a pilot are four structural forces: how you govern it, your team’s design, the quality of the data and whether you have a true product-market fit.
Tech & Society
When every image is beautiful, beauty ceases to be a matter of competition
Generative models have made visual perfection free. The evidence suggests that's a problem for beauty, not a triumph of it.
