Most stagnation stories start with the belief that growth is someone else's responsibility. On self-diagnosis, intellectual discomfort, and why the frontier owes you nothing

Open source activity in April 2026: PRs, reviews, issues, comments across multiple repositories.

I took back product ownership at Buser in 2026 — not as a fallback, but because I know this cycle. On knowing when you're the right person, when you're not, and how the DHM framework changes everything when you run it backwards

In six months, every major AI company shipped models that were fundamentally more capable. Not incremental updates — real capability jumps. And there are still developers who haven't prioritized learning to work differently. That's not healthy skepticism. That's inertia with a philosophy glued on top.