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Year in Review
9 entries tagged “Year in Review”
- 2025: The Year AI Stopped Being Special
· 5 min
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
2024: The Year AI Got Boring (In a Good Way)
· 4 min
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
2023: The Year Everything Changed (and I Barely Kept Up)
· 5 min
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
· 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: The Year Everything We Ignored Caught Fire
· 5 min
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
· 5 min
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
2019: The Year I Quit, Built, and Started Over
· 5 min
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
· 6 min
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
2016: The Year I Stopped Fighting Infrastructure
· 5 min
A personal look back at 2016 -- Docker going mainstream, Kubernetes momentum, Go adoption, and lessons from building at a mobility startup and a fintech startup.
year-in-review
trends
engineering