Maya Chen

Deliberate obsolescence isn't a side effect of tech progress. It's a core business strategy, and the biggest companies have perfected it.

Your old phone isn't just aging. It's being nudged toward obsolescence by the same companies that sold it to you.

Rubber duck debugging sounds ridiculous until you understand the cognitive science. It works, and the reason why reveals something deep about how programmers think.

Artificial scarcity is how software companies manufacture urgency and value for products that cost nothing to duplicate. Here's the playbook.

Your smart speaker understood you just fine. The confusion is a feature, not a bug, and the business logic behind it is surprisingly cold.

Enterprise software is notoriously ugly and clunky. The real reason has nothing to do with bad designers — it's pure economics.

Elon Musk reviews pull requests. Jeff Bezos wrote code well into Amazon's growth years. This isn't nostalgia. There's a precise strategic reason founders stay in the code.

Why Google Chrome, VS Code, and React are free. Hint: It's not generosity—it's the most calculated business strategy in tech.

The story of how OpenAI's GPT-4 release forced a reckoning with what language models actually do, and why 'understanding' was always the wrong word.

Code review is a good practice. It's also a surprisingly poor bug detector. Here's what's actually going wrong.

Code reviews look like a quality control step. They're actually one of the most important social rituals in software engineering.