Boring technology is an AI strategy

Dan McKinley&rsquo;s 2015 essay Choose Boring Technology climbed back onto engineers&rsquo; feeds this week, sitting a few lines above a new frontier model and a faster coding agent. That juxtaposition is the whole argument. The oldest idea on the page is the most useful one for the newest problem on it. &#xA; McKinley&rsquo;s claim is simple. A company has roughly three innovation tokens to…