Sep 30, 2026
#370: Will AI replace QA testers? Three years ago, manual testers were told to learn automation or find another job. Now the automation engineers are hearing the same thing about AI. Same speech, new audience.
Here's the thing. Nobody can test everything. Somebody still has to decide what quality means for your product...
Sep 23, 2026
#369: Vibe coding is great until it isn't, and the until part usually shows up fast. Ten different ways to calculate sales tax. An agent that switches programming languages in the middle of a request. One team on NodeJS, another on Python, and nobody with a rule about either. So who's supposed to stop that?
Turns out...
Sep 16, 2026
#368: You're faster with AI. Your teammates are faster with AI. More tickets closed, more deployments going out than a year ago. So why can't anybody in the building answer a simple question: are we shipping more value?
Jeff's take is that the bottleneck didn't go away, it moved. Code got cheap. Deciding what to build,...
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...