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Year in Review

    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 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 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 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 2016: The Year I Stopped Fighting Infrastructure 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