All writings tagged with "AI"
I was in a founder's kitchen last month. Whiteboard behind him, coffee going cold, three months of runway left. He walked me through his architecture: Kafka streaming between six microservices, a GraphQL federation layer, a vector database for "future AI features."
I haven’t seen that kind of pure, unadulterated joy in years. I think I used to feel that way about my Java builds 14 years ago, before the cynicism of a thousand deployments set in. That’s the thing about experience: you start taking the small wins for granted, forgetting the magic of a successful compile
Most technical posts today are not written to be useful. They are written to look useful. In the AI era that is a losing game. If your post sounds like everyone else, it will be read like everyone else, which is to say skimmed, liked, and forgotten.
I like open source for the same reason I like well designed systems. Clear inputs. Honest outputs. Humans in the loop. Because open source was never about how much code you can generate. It was about caring enough to make it right.
Code is abundant. Judgment is scarce. AI makes writing software easier. Engineering determines whether that software survives reality.
The best line of code is the one you never write. The second best is the one you delete. In an era where code is cheap, clarity is expensive. That is where real engineering lives.