Never the Stack

Vinny Carpenter

The bottleneck in software has never been the stack. It is clarity: of intent, of specs, of judgment. Never the Stack turns essays from vinny.dev into short two-voice audio conversations (generated with Google NotebookLM) about engineering leadership, platform strategy, and enterprise AI in the agentic era. Written by Vinny Carpenter, author of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack. Narrated by AI, on purpose.

  1. há 20 h

    Where the Saved Hour Goes

    AI can create a real time dividend for engineers, and history says unallocated capacity gets absorbed before anyone notices. The case for deciding where the saved hour goes. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-09-where-the-saved-hour-goes/

  2. há 5 dias

    The Frontier on Your Laptop

    Open-weight models have raised the local capability floor while hosted intelligence keeps getting cheaper. The strategic question is no longer which side wins, but which model earns each workload. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-04-the-frontier-on-your-laptop/

  3. há 6 dias

    Don't Automate the Apprenticeship Out of Engineering

    Entry-level work was never just cheap execution. It was the training system that produced the people capable of judging what the machines build. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-03-dont-automate-the-apprenticeship/

  4. 1 de ago.

    The Modernization Backlog Just Got Repriced

    The rewrite taboo broke for systems that can grade their own replacement. At enterprise scale, the first modernization dollar should fund the answer key, not the port. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-08-01-modernization-backlog-repriced/

  5. 17 de jul.

    Everyone Knows You Never Rewrite

    For twenty-six years, the full rewrite was the cardinal sin of software engineering. Then one engineer ported half a million lines of Bun from Zig to Rust in eleven days. The taboo was never about code. It was a price tag, and for systems whose intent lives in an executable oracle, the price just collapsed. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-07-17-everyone-knows-you-never-rewrite/

  6. 28 de jun.

    Work Is Hard Enough

    Work is already hard. Leadership should remove the avoidable human drag: unclear decisions, unsafe disagreement, personal friction, and cultures where telling the truth costs too much. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-06-28-work-is-hard-enough/

  7. 26 de jun.

    Still in the Code

    I lead engineering at a Fortune 100 company, and I still ship my own software. Not because leaders need to prove they can code, but because AI is changing the work faster than secondhand models can keep up. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-06-26-still-in-the-code/

  8. 22 de jun.

    Complexity Is Inevitable. Drag Is Optional.

    Complexity is inevitable in modern engineering. Drag is optional. The work of leadership is turning repeated friction into platforms, defaults, and systems that help teams move faster with trust intact. Read the essay: https://vinny.dev/blog/2026-06-22-turning-complexity-into-leverage/

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The bottleneck in software has never been the stack. It is clarity: of intent, of specs, of judgment. Never the Stack turns essays from vinny.dev into short two-voice audio conversations (generated with Google NotebookLM) about engineering leadership, platform strategy, and enterprise AI in the agentic era. Written by Vinny Carpenter, author of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack. Narrated by AI, on purpose.

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  • Criado por
    Vinny Carpenter
  • Episódios
    22
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Site do podcast
    Never the Stack