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Articles on reducing technical chaos: debt, needless complexity, dependencies. Concrete practices for sober, durable systems.

AI

The context war

We won the war of gigabytes. AI begins the war of tokens: the most useful context will not be the largest, but the most precise.

AI

AI: a lever, not a crutch

AI can amplify your ownership or replace it. The difference lies not in the tool, but in what you keep understanding about your own system.

Learning

Learn fewer things, but truly

Playlists, newsletters, stacked courses: scattering is the technical debt of learning. Three principles to progress without accumulating.