God Is Dead. Long Live The Algorithm.
Pope Leo XIV warns about concentrated, unaccountable power. He should know. The Church spent centuries wielding it. Now the capital has moved to Silicon Valley, and the new gods are just getting started.
Jarrett Meyer
Jarrett Meyer writes about software architecture, ML engineering, and using the right tool — not the trendy one.
Latest posts
I Vibe Coded the Next Discord
You didn't build the next Discord. You built the right tool for your actual problem. Those aren't the same thing.
Stop Doing OLAP In Your OLTP Database
You tracked history in your operational table because it felt responsible. Now every query is a temporal lookup and you can't figure out why everything is slow.
Success Is Not an F1 Metric
Data scientists can talk for days about model design, hyperparameters, and precision-recall tradeoffs. Ask them what changed for a customer and watch the room go quiet.
Every Database Textbook Is Wrong
Your professor's favorite schema violates the rules it was supposed to teach you. You've been copying it into production ever since.
The Simplest Thing
Claude's system prompt says 'try the simplest approach first.' That's good advice for a single decision. It's terrible advice for a project. What happens when nobody's left to know the difference?