Focused on the tension between probabilistic hype and deterministic reality. I’m a proponent of "Sovereign Tech"—local-first systems that don't offload their security or logic to a black-box cloud.
Pet Peeves:
Architectural Regression: Re-inventing solved 1970s problems with 10x the complexity and none of the reliability.
Vibe-Coding: The trend of replacing robust logic with "close enough" probabilistic outputs.
The Trust Tax: Software that requires a corporate "alignment" committee just to perform a local task.
Security Nihilism: Marketing "tools for everyone" while expecting users to have the dev-ops skills of a senior engineer to stay safe.
Searching for the "Atomic Transaction" in a world of hallucinated outputs.