Development

• Development

  Scrum was a workaround. We can stop pretending now.

  1. Scrum solved a real problem, but the problem has changed. The ceremonies existed because humans couldn't plan large systems or build them fast enough. AI removes both constraints, and the methodology hasn't caught up.

  Marco Kotrotsos·10 Apr 2026·8 min read
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  Development

  AI Code Is Getting Worse, Not Better

  Code churn doubled. AI-generated code has 2.74x more vulnerabilities. First-year costs run 12% higher. The productivity story is more complicated than the vendors say.

  Marco Kotrotsos·12 Mar 2026·6 min read
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  Coding

  Cursor Hits $2 Billion. Automations Explain Why.

  Cursor doubled its revenue to $2 billion in three months. Its new Automations feature shows where AI coding is headed.

  Marco Kotrotsos·10 Mar 2026·7 min read
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  Engineering

  Your AI Stack Is Already Legacy

  The frameworks and abstractions built twelve months ago are already getting in the way. The models got good enough that the middleware became the bottleneck.

  Marco Kotrotsos·9 Mar 2026·7 min read
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  Development

  The Developer Who Can't Code Is More Dangerous Than You Think

  Vibe coding democratized building. It didn't democratize judgment. The risk isn't that non-developers are coding. It's that nobody's reviewing what they ship.

  Marco Kotrotsos·9 Mar 2026·6 min read