Life in Production

The Cult of Complexity: From Internet Cafes to AI Chatbots

An architectural critique of herd mentality and local hubris. Tracking how the cultural stigma of 'ready-made' assets mutates from empty 90s internet cafes and stripped Mercedes sensors straight into insecure 'custom' codebases and modern AI chatbot loops.

Deep Dive · Tech Culture · Software Architecture · AI · Business Strategy · Engineering Culture
June 28, 2026 · 12 min read
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Your AI Is a Fortune Teller

It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.

Quick Read · AI · Engineering · Mental Models · Bias
June 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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Four Years and One Afternoon

My personal site sat almost frozen for four years. Changing a profile picture took three commits and two merges. Then I opened one conversation with Claude, and in an afternoon it became a different site.

Deep Dive · AI · Developer Experience · Claude · Web
June 18, 2026 · 9 min read
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