I need to confess something that most developers won't admit: I'm scared of AI. Not in the "Terminator will take over" way. In the very practical, keeps-me-up-at-night way: scared the AI is hallucinating and I can't tell the difference between correct code and plausible-looking garbage. Scared something will break in production because I trusted it too much. Scared I'm losing my edge as a developer because I'm delegating too much.
In February 2009, I wrote a blog post called "Clouded Vision." The central argument was straightforward: "developers have fundamentally misunderstood how cloud computing delivers its benefits." They saw cheaper prices but never stopped to consider where the savings came from. They expected to move existing applications, full of what I called "enterprise DNA" -- static configuration, vertical clusters, high administration costs -- onto cloud platforms with minimal change. Then they complained when it proved difficult. I wrote nineteen posts about cloud computing that year. Most of them circled the same frustration: the industry was adopting a new technology while completely misunderstanding the structural shift it required.