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Reflection

    2025: The Year AI Stopped Being Special A year-end look at what actually happened in AI -- not the hype, but the operational shift. The novelty phase is over. The infrastructure phase has begun. year-in-review ai reflection AI in 2025: The Year It Became Boring (Finally) The most important thing that happened to AI in 2025 wasn't a model release. It was the shift from 'what can it do' to 'how do we run it.' That's progress. reflection ai 2024: The Year AI Got Boring (In a Good Way) 2024 was the year AI stopped being exciting and started being useful. The demo phase ended. The production phase began. Discipline won. year-in-review ai reflection Picking an AI Model for Production (Late 2024) There's no best model. There's the model that fits your workload, latency budget, cost constraint, and ops tolerance. Here's how to compare them. ai llm reflection Claude 3.5 Sonnet Analysis: Cost, Coding, and Model Routing Claude 3.5 Sonnet changes model routing math for coding, cost, latency, and production AI workloads. llm ai reflection 2023: The Year Everything Changed (and I Barely Kept Up) A personal look back at 2023 -- watching AI reshape the industry in real time, and figuring out what matters next. year-in-review ai reflection 2022: The Year the Music Stopped A personal look back at 2022: building through the downturn, watching ChatGPT arrive, and what the year taught me about building things that last. year-in-review reflection ai 2021: The Year Everything We Ignored Caught Fire Personal reflections on a year of growth, supply chain security wake-up calls, and ending the year neck-deep in Log4j response. year-in-review security reflection 2020: The Year That Broke the Playbook Decloud survived its first real crisis, I took on enterprise work, and the industry learned what remote work actually looks like. A look back at a strange year. year-in-review infrastructure remote-work State Of Linux Usability 2020 We've carried out a series of daily tasks on TOP 20 Linux distros as well as Windows and macOS to test whether Linux has a chance to compete in daily use space. engineering development reflection 2019: The Year I Quit, Built, and Started Over Leaving the fintech startup, joining a deep-tech founder program, founding Decloud, and every lesson the year threw at me. year-in-review startups reflection 2018: The Year Tech Got Humbled A personal look back at 2018: GDPR scrambles, a startup accelerator, Spectre/Meltdown fallout, and the infrastructure shifts that defined the year. year-in-review trends reflection