AI agents will get you to dev-done at record speed — right up until you realise you're miles past the actual problem. 80% of projects still spend 80% of their time at 80% complete. Agents don't fix that. They just help you reach it sooner.
Your exec promised a customer that AI would 'just know' the answer to any question across every database in the org. It won't. AI is a model of reality — and there's always a gap. The question is whether you know what it is.
Too many architecture reviews are just debates about which vendor's service logo to put on the diagram. The real value of an architect is knowing when the menu is the wrong starting point.
We never really needed ten thousand DevOps engineers. The market's not dying — it's clearing out the noise. When the dust settles, the builders will still be here.
The Highest Paid Person's Opinion isn't always wrong — but it needs a reality check from the people who actually build things. The best organisations make space for 'cool idea, but here's how that actually works.'
Understand when to use Kubernetes and when to go serverless in your cloud-native architecture.