I’m not anti-cloud, anti-AI, or anti-modern tooling.
I am anti-unexamined defaults.

Every abstraction optimizes for something.
Cost, scale, speed, control, ownership, responsibility.
If you don’t know what a system optimizes for, you are probably paying for it somewhere else.

Skepticism is not negativity.
It’s how engineers stay employed.

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