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Thoughts on building software that lasts, AI that actually helps, and lessons from 30 years of production code.
2026
The Market Is Adversarial. Your Prompt Isn't.
Can an LLM actually trade? Not 'help you trade' or 'make you feel like you're trading smarter'—actually generate real returns as a bot. The $9–11 billion AI trading platform market really wants the answer to be yes. The evidence says something different.
The AI Coding Illusion - Why Vibe Coding Falls Apart After the Demo
The demos look great. AI writes code faster than you can type and the result looks like a week's work in 45 minutes. The problem isn't the demo. The problem is thinking that's where software development ends.
Why Half of All AI Projects Fail
Gartner found 50% of GenAI projects were abandoned after proof of concept. HBR reports only 1 in 50 deliver transformation. The failures aren't technical—they're organizational. Here's what the survivors do differently.
OpenClaw Isn't Just Another AI Tool. It's the Beginning of the AI Workforce.
An open-source project just crossed 145,000 GitHub stars in weeks. Developers are deploying autonomous agents that execute tasks while they sleep. This is the moment AI stopped being a tool you use and became a worker you deploy.
The 40+ Year-Old Rule Every Vibe Coder Is About to Learn the Hard Way
A four-decade-old lesson explains why AI-generated code gets expensive fast: the later you discover the mistake, the more you pay to unwind it.