# developerinsights.peoplenottech.com

> Developer Insights — Dave Ballantyne. GLASS/SAND technical framing, AI-assisted development, and the SQL archive (2009–2024).

Author: Dave Ballantyne
Site: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com

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## What This Site Does

Developer Insights is the personal engineering site of Dave Ballantyne, CTO. It hosts essays on Execution Integrity, GLASS vs SAND, and a resurrected SQL Server technical archive.

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## Key sections

- Home: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/
- SQL archive (tag): https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/tag/sql-archive/
- Podcast: https://developerinsights.transistor.fm

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## Canonical essays (GLASS / SAND)

- GLASS vs SAND: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/glass-vs-sand/
- Why AI-assisted development collapses: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/why-ai-assisted-development-collapses/
- The architecture of autonomy: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/the-architecture-of-autonomy/
- Structural opacity: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/structural-opacity/
- Execution integrity for engineers: https://developerinsights.peoplenottech.com/execution-integrity-for-engineers/

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## Ecosystem

- Applied research (People Not Tech): https://peoplenottech.com/research/continuity-governed-execution
- Execution Pods: https://humanagents.io/execution-pods
- Concept lineage: https://duenablomstrom.com

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