Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes)
Why Custom Software Projects Fail (And How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes) After working on software projects of different sizes, I've noticed that…
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In the Beginning Was the Word
Why your organization's source of truth isn't your database it's your conversation Every organization already contains its operational state. It is no…
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One.
One AI Vendor Is a Single Point of Failure. Treat It Like One. The AI model you built your workflow on today may be indistinguishable from its competi…
How to Measure AI ROI: A 2026 Framework for Proving Return on AI Spend
What is AI ROI? AI ROI is the return your business earns on the money it spends running AI. It answers the one question a token-count dashboard cannot…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale
The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Now Available at Enterprise Scale The research is starting to coalesce, with different angles on whether AI is degrading hu…
The 5x Engineering Manager
EARLY IN MY CAREER , my team had a software engineer who shipped a quarter's worth of stories in a sprint, refactored the build pipeline on a Friday a…
The Total Cost of Ownership Trap in Enterprise AI SaaS
The license fee is the number vendors want you to focus on. It's usually the smallest number in the real calculation. I've evaluated a lot of enterpri…
The Metrics That Actually Tell You If Your Enterprise AI Rollout Is Working
The Metrics That Actually Tell You If Your Enterprise AI Rollout Is Working Time saved is not a metric. It's a hypothesis. Here's how to measure what …
People Without Dirty Hands Are Wrong
A Tale of Two Managers Erin Erin was a newly-promoted manager over a software engineering team. She had been hired 5 years ago as a junior developer a…
Data Product Manager Org Structure: Reporting Lines That Matter
This article was originally published on davidohnstad.com . I cross-post here to reach the Dev.to community. { " @context ": " https://schema.org ", "…
Build a FinOps culture for cloud cost control
Cloud promised agility and lower costs, but rising bills have created new challenges. Enterprises now face pressure to make spending accountable and e…
What Would a Conscious AI Mean?
What Would a Conscious AI Mean? Anthropic's CEO can't rule it out. Lawyers are drafting frameworks. I've been thinking about and debating this for 40 …
The Reputation Layer: Why Developers Quietly Run Corporate PR
When a database falls over at 3 a.m., most engineers assume they are solving a purely technical problem. They are also, whether they intend to or not,…
What Awnings Taught Me About Developer Experience
Here in the U.S. we have a fast-food chain called Chick-fil-A . Its claim to fame isn't actually its food (though it's quite tasty!), but its commitme…
The Champion: Showing Up for the Ecosystem
The Champion is a company that has chosen to champion an open source project and are investing significant resources into supporting it—maybe they hav…
Building Cross-Platform Digital Products: Challenges and Best Practices
This article was originally published on davidohnstad.com . I cross-post here to reach the Dev.to community. The demand for smooth digital experiences…
Data Privacy in the Age of AI: How Product Teams Can Build Trust with Users
This article was originally published on davidohnstad.com . I cross-post here to reach the Dev.to community. The rapid advancement of artificial intel…
Reading Log #9 — Aoashi The Tacit Dimension Thinking, Fast and Slow
Putting everything into words isn't honesty. Pride and awe dwell in the realm that can't be told. 1. The dimension of verbalization is different In Ao…
Pressure Isn't Killing You -Your Relationship With It Is
Everyone Is Telling You to Manage Your Time Pomodoro technique. Study schedules. To-do lists. Color coded planners. You've tried them.They worked for …
DevOps Consulting: How to Evaluate a Partner Before You Engage
Most DevOps engagements don't fail because of bad tooling. They fail because the wrong firm was chosen. The pattern shows up the same way every time. …
We discovered the real workflow during lunch conversations.
Official process: Create request Manager approval System update Done Real process: Someone messages on WhatsApp Another person updates Excel Manager a…
The First-Time Founder's Guide to Delegation (Without Losing Control)
There is a specific kind of pain that hits founders somewhere between five and fifteen people. You hired well. Your team is capable. And yet you can't…
The Semantic Tug-of-War: Who Will Own AI Oversight — and Does the Name Actually Matter?
Artificial intelligence is no longer a side project. It is inside financial decisioning systems, clinical support tools, procurement workflows, custom…
The most expensive infrastructure in the company was human memory
One employee knew: Which report was the correct one Which orders needed manual handling Which customer data could not be trusted Which system actually…
The second-order cost of a(nother) layoff year.
Layoff years compress organizations. Scopes overlap. Lanes that were clear during a growth year start running into each other. Most of the resulting f…
Most Generative AI Projects Don’t Fail Because of the Model
There’s a strange pattern happening across enterprise AI adoption right now. A company spends weeks building a prototype. The internal demo goes well.…
From 'No, sir' to 'Why, sir'. With 'Yes, sir' in between
Not long time ago, the corporation environment complains about how many 'No, sir' they were receiving from their dev teams, because of the high demand…
Only 3% of Companies Have Truly Transformed with AI
Google surveyed 2,643 business leaders and knowledge workers across 6 countries. The headline finding: only 3% of organizations have truly transformed…
The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers
The Best AI Engineers Are Product Managers Why the skills that make great PMs are the same skills that unlock AI productivity You hired a brilliant en…
People were exporting data just to trust it
The system already had dashboards. Still, employees exported everything to Excel before making decisions. Not because Excel was better. Because they t…