Web Scale But At What Cost

Content Matt Watson Following 4x Founder, CTOCEO, Podcaster, Blogger, 2 SaaS Exits, Help Compa... 15h 4 "Technical debt": Move fast and don't fix things "Agile development": Admitting you have no plan "TDD": Guessing the future, one test at a time "Open source": Asking someone else to fix it "CICD": Automating your mistakes into production "API": Asking someone else to do it "DevOps": The belief that more tools fix any problem "Microservices": Creating enough small problems to avoid one big one "Cybersecurity": Playing hide and seek with hackers "Serverless": Pretending servers don't exist until the bill comes "Scrum": Group therapy for being behind schedule What did I miss? g

The perfect metaphor for modern AI "innovation" doesn't exi— What we're seeing here is the software development equivalent of a Russian nesting doll. A truck containing a van containing... another vehicle. Just like how 90% of "groundbreaking AI startups" are just wrappers around wrappers around OpenAI's API. This is what happens when your entire business model is "Let's add a thin layer of abstraction over someone else's product and call it revolutionary." Next funding round: $50 million for a truck that contains a truck that contains a truck.

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The bell curve of developer intelligence strikes again! This meme shows the classic horseshoe theory of programming wisdom: both the blissfully ignorant junior (IQ 55) and the enlightened senior architect (IQ 145) agree that single-file microservices are the way to go. Meanwhile, the mid-level developers with their "Hexagonal Architecture, DDD, Layers of Responsibility" are sweating bullets trying to impress everyone with overcomplicated design patterns. It's the circle of developer life - you start by writing spaghetti code in one file because you don't know better, then you discover "best practices" and create 47 interfaces for a CRUD app, and finally you realize that simplicity was the answer all along. The true galaxy brain move is calling your 2000-line Python script a "microservice" and deploying it to production on Friday afternoon.

The ultimate tech marketing strategy: weaponize political drama. Replit's founder is basically saying "Hey, hate that Vercel CEO met with Netanyahu? Cool, here's how to migrate your Next.js project to us in three easy steps—and we'll even PAY you to switch!" Pure predatory capitalism wrapped in a veneer of moral outrage. It's like watching vultures in Patagonia jackets fighting over roadkill, except the roadkill is your deployment pipeline.

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