In a blog post titled 'Resisting Cognitive Surrender,' developer Kunal describes the temptation to uncritically accept AI agent outputs without reviewing or understanding the code produced. He argues this approach, while fast and low-effort, often leads to suboptimal decisions, accumulated technical debt, and reduced familiarity with one's own systems. The post reflects on his own workflow and calls for finding a better balance of trust when collaborating with AI agents.
knlb.dev
· 2026-11-01
An Entrepreneur contributor writing from experience scaling a regulated payments company argues that surpassing roughly 100,000 customers does not mark the end of hard problems but the start of new, more dangerous ones. Early shortcuts in engineering, treasury, compliance and onboarding that worked at small scale begin to buckle under volume, often without warning until systems are already strained.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-11
A software commentary piece argues that app features, once shipped, behave like kudzu — an invasive plant that spreads uncontrollably and is nearly impossible to remove. The author cites a personal example: adding AI-driven hashtag bubbles to a blog in May, then discovering months later through Plausible analytics that the feature never cracked the top 30 visited pages, making it not worth maintaining.
vickiboykis.com
· 2026-09-10
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