Category: Tech
I Am Not Anti-AI
Introduction: The Wrong Argument By now, after discussions around AI in engineering, security, and system design, some readers will already have reached a conclusion. “You’re anti-AI.” That conclusion is incorrect. I use AI. I work with AI. I understand what it is capable of, and just as importantly, what it is not. The discourse around […]
The Asymmetry of Understanding: AI, Red Teams, and the Coming Security Reckoning
Introduction: The Defender’s Dilemma For decades, defenders enjoyed a hidden advantage. Not a technological advantage. Not a financial advantage. An advantage of complexity. Modern software systems are extraordinarily complicated. Large applications contain millions of lines of code, decades of accumulated technical debt, layers of dependencies, undocumented assumptions, forgotten edge cases, and infrastructure decisions made by […]
The Dark Ages of Security
Introduction: We Were Never Good At This The technology industry loves to tell itself a story. It is a story about innovation, intelligence, and progress. A story where each generation of technology solves the problems of the last. A story where better tools inevitably create better outcomes. Security history tells a different story. For decades, […]
The Death of Senior Engineering
Introduction: The Industry Is Eating Its Apprentices Every generation of engineers inherits knowledge from the generation before it. Junior developers become mid-level developers. Mid-level developers become senior developers. Senior developers become architects, staff engineers, and technical leaders. The process is not glamorous. It is built on years of mistakes, debugging sessions, failed deployments, code reviews, […]
The Pillars of a Resilient and Ethical Tech Culture
The technology industry is a constantly shifting terrain, marked by rapid advancements, fierce competition, and the unrelenting demand for innovation. Amidst this whirlwind, the internal culture of a company often takes a backseat, relegated to a secondary concern behind product development and market strategy. Yet, history has repeatedly shown that the most enduring and influential […]