Good Enough

Your Code Doesn’t Need to Scale. Engineers Are Just Gatekeeping.

📅 August 16, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The software industry’s obsession with scalability is a gatekeeping mechanism, not a technical necessity. Vibe coding shifts the bottleneck from syntax to intent, making ‘good enough’ the new standard for most problems. Engineers who scream ‘it won’t scale’ are missing the point: 90% of solutions don’t need to reach 10,000 users. They just need to work today.

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The 2001 Comment That Predicted (and Missed) Everything About Camera Phones

📅 July 30, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A 2001 comment dismissed camera phones as a gimmick because a standalone camera had better resolution. That comment was technically correct but strategically blind. The real revolution wasn’t about quality—it was about creating a new category of always-available, instantly-shareable data. This is the same mistake we make today with AI, AR, and every emerging technology: we judge by current performance instead of the new behaviors they unlock.

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