Explaining complex things simply
Technical debt behaves like an actual financial instrument, with a principal, an interest rate, and a maturity date. Most leaders never learn to read it that way, and the businesses they run pay for the illiteracy.
A few months ago I decided to stop talking about building and actually build. Here is what a few hours of vibe coding revealed about where the real work still lives.
Vague requirements that once produced slow, mediocre features now produce fast, confidently wrong ones. The PM role does not shrink in an AI-native environment; it front-loads, and becomes the highest-leverage function in the build process.
Cloud repatriation is framed as a cost problem. It isn't. It's a control problem — and AI workloads are the moment most companies finally feel it.
Most companies treat continuous improvement as a program to implement. In Japan, it is so embedded in operational DNA that we did not even discuss it—we just did it. That difference explains why most transformation initiatives fail.
AI-generated code is a direct reflection of your understanding of what you're building. A weekend project with my son revealed why requirements clarity—not technical skill—determines AI development success.