Practice · 2018–now · Platform Wars
Low-code will replace eng
Drag-and-drop apps for the enterprise backlog. Useful for internal tools; fantasy as a full replacement for engineering.
Low-code mutated internal tooling by letting ops build what IT queued for quarters. It failed as engineer replacement because edge cases, integrations, and governance always need code. Vendors still sell the fantasy; budgets learned the limit.
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Frameworks fought for the runtime
Front-end frameworks consolidated power; TypeScript became the floor; serverless and Jamstack rebranded old ideas with better CDNs. Blockchain-for-CRUD and big-bang rewrites collected the decade’s dumbest budgets. The winners were boring platforms with ecosystems. The losers were narratives that skipped product-market fit.
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LLM app frameworks
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AI pair programming
Autocomplete that actually understands the file. Changing how code is written faster than how it's reviewed.