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When Leaders Ignore the No Asshole Rule
Originally published on Rough Edges . There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high perfor…
What Happens When You Remove an AI Tool From a Team
Last year, a team I worked with made an unusual decision. Instead of adding another AI tool, they removed one. Not because the tool was bad. Not becau…
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams
The contractor economy: why startups hire specialists before full-time teams Startups used to follow a familiar hiring pattern: raise money, build a c…
Why Your Business Needs an AI Integration Strategy (Not Just an AI Tool)
The hype cycle for AI adoption in businesses often follows a familiar, and often frustrating, trajectory. It begins with the undeniable allure of a po…
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…
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…
Alibaba's 'Correct but Empty' Response to a 75,000-Word Employee Letter
The Event On June 4, 2026, a former DingTalk product manager named Teng Yaxin published a 75,000-character letter on Alibaba's internal forum titled "…
The Onboarding Math: What Each New Hire Actually Costs When Your AI Stack Is Fragmented
Here is a number most finance teams have never calculated: the total cost of getting one new employee to full productivity in a fragmented digital env…
AI Augmentation: Amazing. Replacement: A Rarity (AI Can't Do Your Whole Job).
AI Augmentation: Amazing. AI Replacement: A Rarity (It Can Only Do a Fraction of Your Job). The "AI will take your job" prediction keeps getting the u…
The Coordination Cost: What Nobody Measures When They Add Another Tool
Every tool your team uses has a price tag. Most of it doesn't appear on any invoice. I've spent a lot of time in the last few years helping organizati…
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…
I Managed a Karaoke Bar with 10 Groups on Weekdays and 15 on Weekends. That Gap Was My First Real Funnel Lesson.
Every weekday, we averaged 10 groups. Every weekend, 15. Same karaoke bar. Same staff. Same songs. For a long time, I just accepted that gap as "norma…
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…
Your Retention Problem Is a Manager Problem.
Gallup has been running the same finding for twenty years. Seventy percent of the variance in team engagement is explained by the manager. Not the ben…
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…
The cognitive bottleneck: rethinking velocity for AI-assisted development
Moving from traditional coding to agentic coding requires a large mindset shift. As a developer, your job transitions into an orchestrator and reviewe…