Sep 9, 2026
#367: Every few weeks another pitch lands. A company with no employees, just a founder and an army of AI agents. Zero headcount. Zero payroll. Then the AI CMO hallucinates a marketing campaign and somebody has to catch it.
Viktor runs the numbers on his own one-person operation. He can review maybe five things a night....
Sep 2, 2026
#366: You ran npm install this morning. Maybe you ran it a dozen times. Every one of those pulled down a dependency tree you have never read, from a registry that spent years in maintenance mode, and then executed whatever preinstall and postinstall scripts happened to be in there. On your laptop. With your keys sitting...
Aug 26, 2026
#365: A bad engineer with a laptop is much worse than a bad engineer with a calculator. Now hand that engineer AI. DORA's ROI report puts it politely - AI without engineering excellence just scales your problems.
Except it's not more of everything. It's more of whatever you were already doing, and there's a statistical...
Aug 19, 2026
#364: Your CEO comes back from a leadership offsite talking about burnout-proof leadership and AI transformation at scale. Two weeks later you're working through lunch, you're working through dinner, and Slack never stops. Deployment frequency is up. Incidents are up worse.
So who was that program actually...
Aug 12, 2026
#363: Three waves of the web, and you are late for the third one. The 90s were about getting a browser to render your page at all. The early 2000s were about SEO, or as Darin puts it, sell me all the ads ready. Now it is agent ready, and Cloudflare built a scoreboard for it...