the jambot
On the gap between what organizations say they're building and what they actually build.
I'm Jamil Jadallah — VP of Product and co-founder of Beyond The Alignment. I study Linguistic Debt: the semantic gap between business intent and engineering execution. I hold US Patent 12,106,240 B2 for measuring it.
I write about what I see. I build visual pieces to make the invisible visible.
Latest
February 2026The Fifth Ceremony
What Next.js Users Really Want (According to GitHub)
Executive Summary
Linguistic Debt
January 2026
Beyond Cloud-Native: The AI Forcing Function
I used to joke that Kubernetes revealed all the technical problems in an organization. It made every siloed process and rigid hierarchy obvious.
Platform Engineering
January 2026
Pruning Project Chaos: What the TVA Can Teach Us About Linguistic Debt
The Velocity Paradox: What We Found Looking Under the Hood of the Modern AI Stack
The Platform Engineering Challenge No One's Talking About
The Million Straws of Modern Tech
The Usual Suspects of Platform Confusion