BrutalTechTruth
Brutal Tech Truth is a multi-platform commentary series (podcast, Substack, and YouTube) delivering unfiltered analysis of enterprise IT, software architecture, and engineering leadership. The mission is simple: expose the hype, half-truths, and convenient lies in today’s tech industry and shine a light on the real issues and solutions. This brand isn’t here to cheerlead feel-good tech trends – it’s here to call out what’s actually failing in your infrastructure, why your cloud bill is insane, how AI is creating tomorrow’s technical debt if not guided, and which “boring” solutions actually work. In Frank’s own direct style: “If you're looking for feel-good tech talk or innovation celebration, skip this one”
Brutal Tech Truth tells the uncomfortable truths behind shiny vendor demos and conference-circuit clichés, bridging the gap between polished narratives and production reality.
Episodes
19 episodes
Power Without Authority: The Theater of Modern Management
The façade is cracking. Every day, in companies worldwide, an elaborate charade plays out where managers watch employees, executives watch managers, and nobody actually holds the power to make meaningful change. This recursive paranoia isn't ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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24:45
The Invisible Catastrophe: How Our Digital World Is Silently Crumbling
Digital infrastructure worldwide is crumbling beneath our feet, creating an invisible catastrophe that threatens everything from banking to healthcare. While we obsess over AI and digital transformation, the foundational systems supporting our ...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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23:12
The Surprising Gap Between AI Coding Perception and Reality in Enterprise Development
The explosive adoption of AI coding tools in enterprise environments is creating a fascinating paradox. While over 80% of developers have embraced these tools and usage continues to climb, positive sentiment has actually decreased. What's causi...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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25:52
Beyond Algorithms: Why AI Success Hinges on Leadership, Not Technology
The conventional wisdom about AI implementation has been turned upside down. MIT's groundbreaking survey reveals that 91% of data leaders identify cultural challenges—not technology—as the primary barrier to AI success. The algorithms work fine...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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14:56
The Daily Humiliation Ritual: Why Tech Stand-Ups Are Destroying Your Soul
The brutal truth about the tech industry's most wasteful ritual has finally been exposed. That daily stand-up meeting you're dreading tomorrow morning? It's not just annoying – it's actively harmful to your productivity, creativity, and psychol...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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18:21
Building Tomorrow, Breaking Today: The Moral Injury of Tech Workers
That sinking feeling in your stomach when you realize the code you're writing will eliminate someone's job—possibly your colleague's, possibly your own. It's the quiet crisis tech workers rarely discuss openly: the psychological toll of buildin...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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20:31
Vibe Coding Demystified
Ever stayed up late, headphones on, coding by pure intuition? That feeling of being in the zone, where you follow your creative flow rather than rigid processes, has a name: vibe coding. It's more than just a trendy term – it represents a funda...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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12:31
The Illusion of Instant Answers
What happens when perfect answers come too easily? That's the question at the heart of our exploration into how AI is quietly reshaping not just what we do, but how we think. The seduction begins innocently enough – you pose a messy question to...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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23:10
Mind Meets Machine
The boundary between human and machine intelligence is blurring in ways few could have predicted. What started as two competing philosophies—rule-based systems versus learning networks—has evolved into a technological revolution that challenges...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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17:04
Why AI Writes Beautiful Poetry But Breaks Your Code
Why does AI sound so human in conversation yet fail spectacularly with code? The answer reveals something profound about both machine learning and human intelligence.Join Frank as he takes you on a journey through the fascinating divide...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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12:15
The Beautiful Resistance
The tension between technological efficiency and meaningful craft has never been more pronounced. As AI tools transform our engineering landscape, something unexpected is happening – a form of beautiful resistance from skilled professionals who...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:26
The Great Management Identity Crisis: Navigating Work in an AI-Augmented World
What happens when a manager can't see you AND an AI does half your job? That's the unsettling question at the heart of today's workforce revolution.The uncomfortable truth lurking behind most return-to-office mandates isn't about collab...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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15:41
From Predictable to Probabilistic: The New Era of Enterprise AI Monitoring
What happens when your monitoring systems can't tell if your AI is lying? This fundamental challenge is reshaping how technical leaders approach reliability in an era where systems are designed to be unpredictable.Traditional monitoring...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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20:51
Human Intelligence in an AI World: Tools for Emerging Tech Leaders
The tectonic shift AI brings to our workplaces isn't primarily a technical challenge—it's a deeply human one. Drawing from two seemingly disparate intellectual traditions, this episode reveals how the psychological insights of Nobel Prize-winni...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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29:53
Ancient Wisdom for the AI Age
Forget everything you thought you knew about managing in the age of AI. This paradigm-shifting episode reveals how three intellectual giants who lived centuries apart—Sun Tzu, Confucius, and Isaac Newton—offer surprisingly powerful frameworks f...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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25:31
The Myth of the 10x Developer
The persistent myth of the 10x developer has shaped tech culture for decades, celebrating an impossible ideal while driving real developers toward burnout. Frank challenges this harmful mythology by sharing insights from his life in Italy, wher...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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20:59
Developers won't be replaced—they'll become AI orchestrators
Are we completely missing the revolutionary potential of AI in software development? While everyone focuses on code completion and developer replacement, a profound paradigm shift is happening right before our eyes.I recently had a ligh...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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12:16
What Kant Would Say About Your IT Department's AI Strategy
Have you ever considered what Immanuel Kant would say about your company's AI strategy? This thought-provoking episode explores the unexpected intersection between 18th-century philosophy and modern IT management.Kant's radical claim th...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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18:05
