“These apps will win awards at the next all-hands. In two years they’ll be unmaintainable tech debt some poor soul inherits and rewrites from scratch.”

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo
@glyph oh my god this is such an excellent article, thanks a ton for sharing. I think some Chinese would object that the suffering of their people is being equated with western info workers suffering, but the analogy is just too perfect.