Mastodawn

This six-part post describes typical technical and process rot in orgs when product quality (e.g., security, reliability) and op excellence are incrementally sacrificed in the name of velocity, time-to-market, etc.

#technology #management #techdebt

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Axel’s Substack

Inautilo 2d ago

#Development #Approaches
Zen of AI coding · Code became cheap, and everything changed https://ilo.im/16btdu

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#Business #Engineering #Coding #AI #Software #Workflows #TechDebt #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Zen of AI Coding

Software development is dead. The marginal cost of code is collapsing. That single fact changes everything that follows.

Nonstructured - By Yoav Aviram

Inautilo 2d ago

#Design #Analyses
Design debt is now like technical debt · Rapid AI adoption risks systemic UX failures https://ilo.im/16bnme

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#DesignProcess #DesignDebt #TechDebt #AI #IA #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Design debt is now as dangerous as technical debt

If you want to put AI adoption at risk, ignore the design debt at your own peril

Medium

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines Mar 27

How the #AIBubble may be like the 2008 GFC thanks to SPVs / CDOs

#GPU #CoreWeave #NVIDIA #StructuredFinance #Securitisation #CDO #DataCentres #PrivateCredit #GFC2 #DerivativesMarket #PensionFunds #SPV #ComputeFutures #TechDebt #WallStreet #FinancialEngineering #2008Redux

Ralph Mar 26

Browser haben inzwischen mehr Zeilen Code als das Space Shuttle.

Und trotzdem crashen sie bei drei offenen Tabs. 🤡

#WebDev #TechDebt #Browsers

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines Mar 25

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

10k words, wrong thesis.

He's banging on about GPUs in boxes. The actual scandal is GPUs as financial instruments. CoreWeave has $30B in debt collateralised against physical chips in SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicle), depreciated over 6 years based on projected inference revenue that doesn't exist. NVIDIA sells the GPUs, then rents some back, and that rental income services the debt used to buy them.

Nobody knows what an H100 is worth in 2028. Billions of dollars of structured finance assumes the answer is "enough."

Not asbestos in the walls, Ed. CDOs. Read a balance sheet instead of Pluralistic for once.

Zitron found the right neighbourhood and broke into the wrong house.

#AIBubble #GPU #CoreWeave #NVIDIA #StructuredFinance #TechDebt #Securitisation #WheresYourEdAt

Inautilo Mar 16

#Development #Explainers
Cognitive debt · “It’s not technical debt, it’s worse.” https://ilo.im/16b227

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#AI #CognitiveDebt #TechDebt #Workflows #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Cognitive Debt

The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands. It's not technical debt. It's worse.

Andrew Cairns

Dr. G. Power Mar 12

In 1–3 years, I expect a technical debt crisis fueled by AI-generated code slop... We will be drowning in unmaintainable, poorly understood systems. #AI #TechDebt #SoftwareEngineering

Dev Leader Mar 11

The only solution to tech debt is to go fix all of it right away.

#developers #techdebt #technicaldebt #refactoring

Scott McMahan Mar 11

Legacy code slows everything down.

It increases risk, drags out releases, and makes even small changes harder than they should be.

AI is starting to change that.

I put together a post on how teams can use AI to modernize codebases more strategically by surfacing technical debt, improving test coverage, supporting refactoring, and reducing modernization risk.

Read it here:
https://aitransformer.online/ai-codebase-modernization-strategy/

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #LegacyCode #TechDebt #CodeModernization