Mastodawn

I don't think I have ever read a more concise and yet thorough explanation of my own observations, conclusions, and fears as a 20+ year veteran technology professional and 15 year SRE veteran.

We are actively tearing down the hard fought wins for ourselves and our customers in the chase for the MBAs and business idiots and the institutional knowledge and processes that solved huge problems are the victims of this AI circlejerk.

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

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bit101

@robert Wow, over the years I've read a lot of modern Chinese history, the great leap forward, cultural revolution. All of this is spot on and hits hard.

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bit101 2d ago

@robert If a project needs to be done later because everyone is working on another project, leadership routinely asks, "can claude do it?" Like there are two paths to development - having engineers build it and having claude build it. And the latter is free and instant.

Every week, I am personally asked, "are you using claude? what have you done with claude this week?" (I am an engineering manager). aka, "how many sparrows have you killed?"