From Cognitive Load to Cognitive Surrender
A Wharton paper gave a formal name to what I described three weeks ago: when AI thinks for you and you let it. The data is worse than I expected.
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The Apprenticeship Is Dead. Long Live the Indie Senior.
AI creates a demographic time bomb: it increases demand for senior talent while destroying the pipeline that produces it. What replaces corporate apprenticeship is something closer to Hollywood.
Everyone Promised Shorter Workweeks. Then Came the 12-Hour Laws.
Keynes predicted 15-hour weeks by 2030. Gates says 2-day weeks within a decade. Meanwhile, Germany, Argentina, and Silicon Valley are legislating or normalizing 12-hour days. The paradox has a name, and it’s 161 years old.
AI Didn't Reduce My Cognitive Load. It Moved It.
Everyone says AI makes developers faster. My experience is the opposite: I arrive exhausted not because I wrote more code, but because I evaluated more decisions. The effort didn’t shrink. It transformed.
AI Is Breaking the Engineering Talent Pipeline
Three fractures in how we learn, hire, and distribute capability.
When Your AI's Second Brain Starts Talking Back
Three layers of knowledge integration between Obsidian and Claude Code: from write-only vault to a feedback loop that promotes patterns into skills.
The Missing Step: What a Colleague's Hint Taught Me About AI-Driven Planning
Structured requirements, deviation rules, and the art of selective theft: five concepts borrowed from GSD, twenty rejected.
When Your AI Skills Library Gets Too Smart for Its Own Context Window
From token optimization to an orchestrated development workflow with Claude Code: teaching an AI your patterns is only part of the problem.
I Built an Italian Prison Monitor in 9 Days with AI. Here's What Broke.
A personal project that started as “can I automate an RSS digest?” and became a full-stack monitoring platform with narrative memory, semantic search, and AI-generated editorial commentary.
Measuring Software Performance: What Changed in 3 Years?
From the SPACE Era to the AI & DevEx Revolution: a necessary update.