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…
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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…
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…
Cost of Delay
The Cost Nobody Tracks A team needed feedback from users. The proposed solution was technically sound: flexible question types flexible answer types r…
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…
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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
MuleSoft Beyond the Brochure: What 16+ Years in Enterprise Delivery Taught Me About Building Integration That Actually Survives Production
Abstract MuleSoft is often introduced as an API-led connectivity platform, and that description is technically correct, but in practice it is much mor…
Suggix Weekly: Stop Building Everything: Let Users Decide What Matters
One of the most common traps founders fall into—especially indie hackers and small SaaS teams—is believing that every piece of user feedback should be…
The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption
The AI Bullwhip: What The Beer Game Teaches Us About Uneven AI Adoption Why introducing AI to one team might break others—and how to avoid the chaos S…
AI Skills for Project Management
After completing the DelftX project management course in TU Delft's Engineering Project Management series, the idea that stayed with me was not a temp…
I’m conducting a short research survey on how technical debt impacts operational processes in software companies. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTLpxtD7VABDqphfwla_PYO_gbOUN8vGpxqsRL7hl8X2bx6Q/viewform?usp=dialog
Technical debt, operating interest, and capacity allocation in software organizations docs.google.com
95% of AI Pilots Fail. The Technology Works Fine.
Boards in the $30M–$500M range are being asked the same question right now: "Can we move on AI?" The pressure is understandable. Competitors are exper…