Posts tagged with "opinion"

Karpathy gave an LLM the first paragraph of Lord of the Rings, a $10 token budget, and two hours. It wrote 5,500 lines of code and rendered a world. The demo is fun — the economics and the review problem are the story.

The daily standup exists because a team can't see what changed for 24 hours at a time. Fix the visibility, and the meeting loses its reason to exist.

Every Friday the board looks its best — and least true. The weekly grooming ritual teaches teams to perform progress instead of tracking it. Here's how to break the cycle.

Every project tool separates thinking from tracking. That's a bug, not a feature. The story of why Kahoona puts a whiteboard beside the project board — and what changed when we used it ourselves.

When only one person knows how the deploy works, you don't have a staffing problem — you have knowledge that never made it out of someone's head. Here's how small teams fix it without writing a wiki nobody reads.

Free tiers aren't free — they're pricing you in attention, migration risk, and the cliff you hit at seat six. We do the math on what zero-dollar tools actually cost a small team over a year.

Your board says the sprint is 80% done. Your repo says otherwise. Why ticket trackers drift from reality, what it costs, and the one habit that closes the gap.