Per-token costs are collapsing. Total AI coding spend is climbing anyway. That isn’t a contradiction. It’s a 160-year-old paradox doing exactly what it has always doing. Somewhere in second quarter there will be a budget review where two slides will appear to be in disagreement. One shows the price of a thousand tokens, and the line slopes down and to the right, the way the cost of a maturing technology is supposed to. The next slide shows the monthly spend on AI coding tools, and that line climbs up and to the right, steeply, and nobody in the room can…
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Confirmation Bias in Tech: Why We Choose Solutions Before We Understand Problems Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek out evidence that supports what we already believe and dismiss anything that challenges it, is part of being human. We all carry it. We all act on it, often without realizing it. But as technologists, we like to think of ourselves as rational, evidence-driven people. We deal in logic, in systems, in reproducible outcomes. Surely we’re above the petty cognitive shortcuts that trip up everyone else. We are not. And the consequences of pretending otherwise show up in production codebases every single…