Christmas 1991, ninth grade. I came out of the bathroom, looked across the hall into the family room, and there it was, a 386 DX40 my parents had hidden, waiting for Christmas morning. Three decades on, the instincts that machine drilled into me are the ones I'm reaching for in the AI age.
Sixteen years in: vCAC, vRA, AWS, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Terraform, now AI agents. The honest read on what persists across the eras, idempotency, declarative state, policy-as-code, observability, and what's genuinely different about agents.
Years before AI agents, I was writing workflows that called other workflows, enforcing policy at the orchestration layer, and arguing about idempotency. vCAC turned out to be the apprenticeship for everything I'm doing now.
The workflow-orchestration tools of the early 2010s tried to solve a problem the LLM agents of the mid-2020s are now taking another swing at. The problem is the same. The substrate is different. Worth being honest about which parts of the previous attempt to bring forward and which to leave.
A framework I sketched a couple of years back: capture the priors that shape how someone reasons, ship the result as a portable artifact. Worth revisiting now that the substrate has landed.
A retrospective on a thread of posts about personal AI ownership, what's clarified, what's still murky, and what I'd revise about the earlier framing now that more of the substrate exists.
Four ways the engineering community is talking about AI right now. Two of them are wrong. Here's the framing this site is going to use, and what to expect from the threads that follow.
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