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What breaks when an AI-built web app meets real users, what it costs to run, and what running our own has taught us.
AI shame, and why "made by a human" is not a quality mark
Three kinds of AI shame from a Danish podcast, a fourth one at work, and why the line that matters is not AI or no AI but reviewed or not reviewed.
- AI and development
- Skills and teams
The grunt work was the curriculum
The small tickets and boring bug fixes were never designed as training, but they were how developers learned. AI now does those tasks. What the research says about skills that stop forming, why foundational skill is what makes AI worth having, and how a team rebuilds the path on purpose.
- AI and development
- Skills and teams
Why skill development works best as a team sport
Individual learning plans are real, but the force we consistently underuse is the group. Why shared progress compounds motivation, what the right kind of peer pressure looks like, and how a shared competency matrix turns it into practice.
- Skills and teams
I am high performing
Extraordinary output in one domain is almost always paid for somewhere else. A case for defining high performance as doing well on every parameter, not only at work.
- Skills and teams
Peer pressure is the most underrated engine we have
A one-to-one tutor teaches measurably better than a classroom, and we still put children in rooms with twenty-nine others. What the group provides, how modern work quietly removes it, and how to design it back in.
- Skills and teams