infrastructure
Building on Quicksand
The accelerating deployment of AI reveals three critical challenges: our infrastructure is inadequate, monopolization threatens resilience, and we're eliminating entry-level career pathways. But the same maintenance backlogs that companies defer also represent an overlooked opportunity—if we choose to use AI to address them rather than eliminate the workers who would learn from them.
The Infrastructure Debt Crisis
Think of AI deployment as running bullet trains on century-old rails. We've built sophisticated AI systems but we're running them on IT infrastructure designed when security was an afterthought and 'move fast and break things' was gospel.