“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 Great post - defs going to be a quicker cycle than the arrival of the internet which there was such a great hope for before the big manipulations- Must be lessons learned from things like Twitter where governments and institutions use tools for free, and didn’t supervise what was done with their data & peoples info. Can really there be respect for national borders, laws or sovereignty inside opaquely managed global tools and now I am such a sparrow!