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    2025 Year in Review: AI Stopped Being Special · 5 min The operational shift in AI during 2025: evals, governance in CI, cost routing. The novelty phase is over and the infrastructure phase has begun. year-in-review ai reflection AI in 2025: What Held Up in Production and What Didn't · 4 min 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) · 4 min My 2024 in AI: the demo phase ended and production work began. What held up, what surprised me, and what stayed hard across a year of hands-on AI work. year-in-review ai reflection Picking an AI Model for Production (Late 2024) · 5 min No LLM is best for everything. Compare task fit, tail latency, cost per success, and schema compliance in a bake-off on your workload, then route. ai llm reflection Claude 3.5 Sonnet Analysis: Cost, Coding, and Model Routing · 5 min Four days with Claude 3.5 Sonnet: coding quality, where Opus still wins, what Artifacts adds, and why it changes model routing for production. llm ai reflection 2023 Year in Review: LLM Integration, Payments, and Go · 4 min Looking back at 2023: LLM integration work, Go backends for payments, production AI deployments, watching the AI platform shift, and what stayed hard. year-in-review ai reflection 2022 Year in Review: The Year the Music Stopped · 5 min 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 in Review: The Year Everything We Ignored Caught Fire · 5 min 2021 in review: a job change, cleanup work, Log4j and the us-east-1 outage as inventory tests, OpenTelemetry going real, and what I got wrong. year-in-review security reflection 2020 in Review: The Year That Broke the Playbook · 5 min My company survived its first real crisis, I led teams at two larger platforms, and the industry learned what remote work looks like. A strange year. year-in-review infrastructure remote-work State of Linux Usability 2020: Distros vs Windows and macOS · 12 min A non-technical user ran 16 everyday tasks on the top 20 Linux distros plus Windows and macOS. Pop!_OS, Mint, and Ubuntu beat both commercial systems. engineering development reflection 2019 in Review: The Year I Quit, Built, and Started Over · 5 min Leaving the fintech startup, joining a founder program, starting a cloud infrastructure company, and every lesson the year threw at me. year-in-review startups reflection 2018 in Review: Spectre, GDPR, and a Humbled Tech Industry · 6 min A personal look back at 2018: Spectre and Meltdown, the GDPR scramble, a startup accelerator, Kubernetes winning, and what to watch in 2019. year-in-review trends reflection
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