Technology Essays

• Does AI Democratize Information—or Turn into a Weapon for Exposure? 2025-09-02
  AI democratizes information in an instant while also causing unintended exposure—it delivers exactly what people seek at unprecedented speed.
• The Convenience Paradox: Why Tool Sprawl Keeps Crushing Productivity 2025-08-31
  The more convenience tools we adopt, the more chaos erupts on the ground—and the more maintenance costs explode. Drawing on everyday experience and real-world cases, I argue that the issue is not UX but cost structure, and that organizations must either tame or control their tool landscape.
• Is Search Dead? Exploring the Future of LLMs and Generative AI 2025-08-30
  Google search is deteriorating while ChatGPT is on the rise—by tracing the history of search, we explore the world after generative AI becomes the gateway to information and what comes next, including the death of SEO and the dawn of the AEO wars.
• What Is AI Fatigue? Responsibility Fatigue and the Future of Work Design 2025-08-30
  AI makes work easier, but people grow tired of the judgments and responsibility that remain—that is the true nature of AI fatigue.
• What is zero trust? Buzzword or new security stack? A clear explanation of zero trust. 2025-08-30
  What exactly is zero trust? Is it just a buzzword or a new set of security technologies? This article clarifies how it relates to perimeter defense, debunks common myths, and explains why "removing implicit trust" matters.
• Legacy Will Keep Being Born—Tame It Anyway: A Future Vision for Citizen Development (Part 7 of 7) 2025-08-28
  Legacy will always emerge. The future of citizen development lies not in banning it, but in clarifying its role as a draft, partnering with professionals and generative AI, and taming legacy through governance that aligns every vantage point.
• Misaligned Vantage Points Mass-Produce Negative Legacy (Part 6 of 7) 2025-08-27
  Citizen development turns into negative legacy not because of tooling, but because executives, frontline teams, IT, and middle management operate on different time horizons. Their misaligned vantage points elevate short-term wins over long-term stewardship. Understanding that structure reveals what it takes to carry citizen development into the future.
• Citizen Development Isn’t Omnipotent—It Is “Draft Development” (Part 5 of 7) 2025-08-26
  Citizen development is not a path to production-grade systems. Its value lies in acting as a draft that visualizes requirements from the user’s perspective. A well-crafted draft reduces misinterpretation and gaps, improving the precision of professional implementation—provided experts always do the final clean copy.
• The Legacy That Generative AI Saves—and the Legacy It Abandons (Part 4 of 7) 2025-08-25
  Generative AI can analyze and port existing code, but assets that were never expressed as code—like no-code apps or RPA flows—are far harder to rescue. Future debt will concentrate in artifacts left as black boxes.
• What Generative AI Is Critically Missing: Dignity, Conviction, Responsibility, and the "Self" 2025-08-25
  Generative AI’s limitation is not a lack of knowledge; aside from rare exceptions, it lacks the dignity, conviction, and sense of responsibility that humans take for granted. I map current stopgap measures and research trends, then go further to ask what responsibility means and how humans and AI differ down to the Cartesian notion of the "self."
• The Light and Shadow of Modern Citizen-Development Platforms (Part 3 of 7) 2025-08-24
  RPA and no-code/low-code platforms win hearts with instant results and persuasive visualizations. Yet real-world use demands programming-grade skills and system design, while SaaS/PaaS dependency erodes portability. These traits risk spawning debt even harder to unwind than Kami Excel.
• Was Kami Excel Truly the Villain?—From Savior to Negative Legacy (Part 2 of 7) 2025-08-23
  Kami Excel was not evil. It was a necessary remedy that saved frontline teams, yet it turned into negative legacy because organizations failed to govern it and society lacked IT literacy. Kami Excel was fundamentally readable—had true IT adoption taken hold, it might have been an ideal productivity tool.
• Why Agentic AI Will Radically Boost Personal Productivity—and What Comes Next 2025-08-23
  Agentic AI is a new type of AI that plans and acts on its own in line with the user’s goals. This article explains its characteristics and potential, the cautions for adoption, and how widespread use could change the role of humans and our ways of working.
• Is Citizen Development the Return of EUC?—Lessons from Kami Excel (Part 1 of 7) 2025-08-22
  Citizen development is not a new idea. Revisiting the history of EUC and Kami Excel reveals a recurring pattern of short-term success turning into long-term debt. By comparing today’s no-code and low-code tools with their predecessors, we can grasp both the risks and possibilities of citizen development.
• Charting the Future of Citizen Development—History, Today, Generative AI, and Beyond (Part 0 of 7) 2025-08-21
  Is citizen development truly the future of software creation, or is it Kami Excel 2.0 reborn? This series follows the history from EUC to RPA and generative AI to explore the real nature and possible futures of citizen development.
• The Possibilities—and New Anxiety—That Generative AI Brings 2025-08-17
  Generative AI has dramatically expanded what individuals can make real on their own, yet it forces us to ask what matters in a world where anyone can easily turn an idea into reality.