This is it. We leave 2025 behind and embrace the new Year.

Let's look back at what we've accomplished. I'm looking forward to what comes next.

LLM encourages everyone to take a shortcut. The Software Architect uses LLM to generate specs, introducing hallucinations. The developer uses LLM the generate the code, introducing errors. The review uses LLM to review the code, also propagating the issue. When the code fails in the hand of real users, nobody knows how to fix it. Nobody bothered to learn what the code was actually supposed to do.

Join me in this episode as we tackle the problem and figure out a solution for the developer workflow.

No Exceptions *

I know it is a bold claim. But there is a good reason I make it. When the vast majority of use cases of a tool is to spam, scam and trick people, we should just call it for what it is.

There are simpler use cases that are harmless, but the problem is that they numb us to the harmful parts. Join me as I take you through my experience with AI videos.

One of the biggest hurdle in getting started is thinking about how others will perceive your work.

"What if I suck?"

Let me reassure you. When you are just getting started, no one is going to pay attention to you. And that's a good thing.

Join me as I give you a more realistic approach, and perhaps a more sobering view that will help you get started.

Every avenue that implements gamification will slowly fall into gamblification. When believe that everything fun is good, including education, we slowly turn into gamblers. In fact, it becomes the natural next step.

Join me as I take you through the journey of how apps turn you into a gambler.

I started my career with PHP and jQuery. It was a refreshing simple and low barrier of entry for anyone who wanted to start a career in tech.

It's rare to see any tool that has as much impact. Even with AI, people still have a hard time getting started because tools like these are no longer at the forefront.

Join me as I discuss what we gained and what we lost.

We've created a hiring system that reject all candidates and hire only those who can game the system.

Gen Z has adapted to it, and we are mad at the way they apply.

"hi, hire me, thanks"

That's the message I got. Let me tell you why this is not a rude message.

After 15 years, I can assure you. I don't interview for Jobs. I audition. Why? Because the job interview and the position you are being hired for are two different things.

Join me in this episode where we dig into the experience.

Original Article

The cloud isn't a magical thing in the sky. It's real servers bolted to the ground with steel and concrete.

Join me in this podcast where I dig into the real impact of data centers both on our resources and communities.

A movie theater clerk asks to see your ID. You show it through the glass, they glance at it for three seconds, hand it back, and forget about it. The information never leaves that moment. But when you upload that same ID online for verification, everything changes. It goes on a permanent digital journey through servers, databases, and third-party services you've never heard of—each one a potential point of failure that you'll never control.

In this episode, we explore why "please verify your identity" means something fundamentally different online versus offline. Starting with a personal story from a Santa Monica movie theater and a toddler who received a data breach notification before he could talk, we examine how digital verification transforms a simple, contained transaction into unbounded, permanent risk.

Companies promise to delete your ID after verification, but a recent dating app breach revealed photos stored for years despite deletion claims. Files never truly delete—they live in backups, get converted into multiple formats, get shared with subcontractors you never agreed to work with. Even state-of-the-art encryption might not protect you from "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attacks where adversaries collect encrypted data today to decrypt with quantum computers tomorrow.

The convenience of digital verification comes with a hidden cost: we trade the ephemeral nature of human interaction for the permanent vulnerability of digital storage. Unlike that theater clerk who forgot your birthdate seconds after seeing it, computers have perfect memory. And once your data enters the digital world, you lose control of it forever. The question isn't whether these systems will be compromised, but when.

"This physical verification, flawed as it may be, keeps the risk contained to that single moment. Online verification, however, creates an entirely different category of risk."

"When a company promises to delete your ID after they verify it, there's no way to verify that claim. In computer parlance, there's no such thing as truly deleting a file."

"We're trading permanent digital vulnerability for temporary convenience. And we're doing it so often that we've stopped thinking about what we're actually giving away."