Let's start with some uncomfortable numbers. McKinsey, in collaboration with Oxford University, found that large-scale IT implementations exceed their planned budgets by 45% on average. And 17%...

AI is an amazing tool, especially when it comes to writing code. But it is also fundamentally different from what we, as programmers, are used to. This becomes even more visible when we use AI in...

A fellow consultant said it to me recently, almost in passing: "Custom software is vendor lock." I've been in this industry long enough that I don't usually stop mid-conversation to stare at...

A few words about the use of AI at work (where by work we mean not only coding), although we will start with coding - specifically with what is often its final stage: code review, and the fact...

##How I Contributed to an Open Source Project Without Knowing the Framework I'm a Ruby on Rails developer with several years of experience across various projects and technologies. Two weeks ago,...

You finally click Deploy. The terminal scrolls, CI is all green, and for a few seconds, you feel unstoppable. You open the app in production, click around, and everything seems fine. Then an...