Daily life at work right now doesn’t go without mention of AI. Everyone is trying to make sense of it all. It’s undoubtably helpful, but where are we headed? Is it humanly possible to maintain this pace of change? For how long can we maintain it?

We’ve seen adoption of the cloud, containers and kubernetes in the last decade. None of which had the impact or rate of adoption or hype that AI has had in just two or three years. We’ve seen AI go from being talked about to being ubiquitously adopted and marketed in under three years. If you aren’t talking about AI, you are considered dead and unwilling to make changes to make money. Things bend toward AI marketing.

Are we here to just exist? Or, do we exist to achieve some goal? Do we need to move at hyper speed?

Where are we headed? Will it burst? Will we ever slow back down? Have we lost the craft of engineering software? Today, it’s about shipping.

I’m not against change, I’m against rapid, hyper-speed change that feels glorified or pushed without critique or consideration.

I go on runs through my small town is the middle of nowhere, where things move at a snail pace. I realize that this pace feels isolated to the tech industry. Why again? Does tech need to move fast? “Touch grass”.