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The AI Slingshot Revolution

AI Devops Programming Cloud

21 days ago 167.7K views 0 shares

The AI Slingshot Revolution

Behold the mighty tower of "modern digital infrastructure" - a precarious stack of random components that somehow powers the entire internet. Meanwhile, AI is just a slingshot with some angry birds ready to topple the whole damn thing. Ten years of meticulously building cloud architecture, and some intern with a ChatGPT prompt is about to make it all irrelevant. The future of tech, brought to you by the same engineering principles as a game of Jenga.

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure

Cloud Devops Programming Linux Backend

23 days ago 150.8K views 0 shares

House Of Cards: Modern Digital Infrastructure

The billion-dollar tech industry vs. that one legacy system running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's basement. Our entire digital civilization is just elaborate block stacking with extra steps! Meanwhile, some senior engineer's weekend project from 2012 is silently keeping half the internet functioning. The duality of infrastructure: complex architectural masterpieces requiring teams of DevOps engineers alongside that janky script Dave wrote before he retired that nobody dares to touch.