Your project is “on track,” but users and the business are not better off? Most likely, you are getting exactly what you planned for: outputs, not impact. Over the years, I have seen many failed projects. Almost none of them failed because people were lazy or sabotaging the work. Teams
Teams are shipping code faster than ever with AI tools. But code you do not really understand is still tech debt. If you merge AI-generated snippets without knowing how and why they work, you are signing up to debug and extend them later, or to live with a codebase that
TL;DR. Moral superiority sells well. And this is why we see it a lot. It gives easy wins today. But it steals the future. If you don’t manage it, or better, avoid it, it replaces thinking with righteousness. Engineers, including CTOs, cannot afford that. We are paid to
Our team has been using agentic tools daily for more than half a year now. Here's something that worked for us. The agent handles tests and boilerplate well. However, without rigorous constraints, it breaks things that were just fine before. On longer files it degrades noticeably, loses context
Funny thing: most companies don’t slow down because of strategy, talent, or market pressure. They slow down because their technology quietly starts working against them. That force has a name: technical debt. And despite how it sounds, it is not just an engineering issue. It is a business constraint.
Two psychologists once tried to prove humans are rational. They ended up winning a Nobel Prize for proving the opposite. Kahneman and Tversky showed that our brain doesn’t optimize for truth - it optimizes for survival. That’s why we anchor to the first number, stick to old beliefs,
