Vibrant Jellyfilsh·Oct 23Cargo Cults, And Things Like Them In My Life.Human beings are brilliant pattern-recognition machines.A response icon1A response icon1
Charles Hugh Smith·Jun 19What If the Work We’re Busy Automating Is Needless?Many of the topics I address are met with silence because they question the quasi-religious beliefs that underpin our entire way of life…A response icon4A response icon4
InSantiago Bustelo, in englishbySantiago Bustelo·May 25AI was not trained by painters, nor on paintings, but on JPEGs.
Brian Kim·Mar 19🥥 [Strategy] The “Cargo Cult” Trap in BusinessWhy copying Google’s office won’t make you innovative
Annabellabyebye·Jan 3Cargo cult and InstagramImagine: every wrapper you’ve ever thrown away still exists somewhere
Sean C. Rife·Dec 19, 2025Stop confusing style adherence with rigor…or high standards, or diligence, or anything, really. It’s just a style manual FFS.
InPractical AgilistbyBrian Link·Nov 8, 2025Artificial Extremes: The New Cargo Cult of AI in AgileWe’ve seen this movie before. First, it was doing Agile instead of being agile. Now it’s using AI instead of thinking intelligently.A response icon1A response icon1
Stephan Eberle·Oct 30, 2025The Cargo Cult in the Machine: Why LLMs Are the Ultimate ImitatorsIn a previous article, I compared the tech industry’s AI enthusiasm to a “cargo cult”. What if LLMs were cultists, too?
shahzad bhatti·Oct 16, 2025When Copying Kills Innovation: My Journey Through Software’s Cargo Cult ProblemBack in 1974, physicist Richard Feynman gave a graduation speech at Caltech about something he called “cargo cult science.” He told a story…
shahzad bhatti·Oct 13, 2025How Abstraction is Killing Software: A 30-Year Journey Through ComplexityThe Promise and the ProblemA response icon1A response icon1
