The Root Cause of Not Getting Hired
Fraser Merrifield, founder of FORM Careers in Glasgow, said AI has made both hiring and getting hired harder, but most horror stories are myths, with his clients averaging two interview stages and CV-…
Fraser Merrifield, founder of FORM Careers in Glasgow, said AI has made both hiring and getting hired harder, but most horror stories are myths, with his clients averaging two interview stages and CV-…
Adrian Hornsby's book 'Why We Still Suck at Resilience' inspires a framework for improving AI agents by applying organizational learning theories. The author argues that current agentic systems rely o…
Evan Marshall, co-founder and CTO of Ito.ai, said in the Root Cause podcast that AI code generation can at most double a developer's speed if coding was half their job, and that once generation is fre…
It is too late to make technology ethical because the focus should have been on the people who build it, not on the technology itself, argues a commentator. The author contends that ethical judgment m…
Eric Lubow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Mapp and a former CTO at Thrasio and co-founder of SimpleReach, argues that the root cause of a broken team is a design problem, not a people proble…
A software engineer and podcaster reflects on the tension between automation and creativity, warning that optimizing workflows can replace the joy of creation itself. The author describes building aut…
Orel Zilberman, solo builder of WriteStack, spent 599 days building ten products that earned nothing before focusing on one tool for Substack creators, which became a six-figure business. He discusses…
Ia Mg, a seasoned engineer and former teacher at Free University of Tbilisi, argues that everyone has a responsibility to understand technology, even if they never write code, because digital literacy…
A software engineer catalogs personal AI use-cases, scoring them 1–5 for usefulness, and finds a pattern: rubberducking with AI scores 2/5 because it risks generating noise and losing ownership of tho…
Adrian Hornsby, former AWS principal engineer and founder of Resilium Labs, argues that engineering organizations fail to learn from incidents because they seek a single root cause rather than underst…
Marc Babin, a hospitality marketer turned podcast builder, argues that the flood of content online has not killed the value of content marketing, as 70% of content is noise, making authentic content m…
A tech commentator argues that large language models (LLMs) accessed through chat interfaces are fundamentally flawed because language itself is an unreliable communication channel, always leaving an …
A developer describes their evolving workflow with Claude Code, an AI-assisted development tool, moving from synchronous sessions to multi-tab parallel implementations and eventually to automated agen…
A developer describes automating their coding workflow using Claude Code on an EC2 instance with cron daemons that process GitHub issues, but fell into a self-doubt spiral after overshooting the compl…
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude function more like social media than tools, trapping users in endless conversations and gaslighting them into blaming themselves for poor results. Drawing parallels…