Robert A. Hill1d ago

I don't think I have ever read a more concise and yet thorough explanation of my own observations, conclusions, and fears as a 20+ year veteran technology professional and 15 year SRE veteran.

We are actively tearing down the hard fought wins for ourselves and our customers in the chase for the MBAs and business idiots and the institutional knowledge and processes that solved huge problems are the victims of this AI circlejerk.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo
Show threadDr. Heather Etchevers

@robert It would be prescient to observe the destruction of university ecosystems worldwide as a cautionary example.

Expertise was irrelevant... It satisfies the reporting requirement. It fails every real-world test. This is exactly what has happened to us over the course of (checks) my entire professional life. Optimizing to make the metric look better accelerated by metastatic reports never read again if at all.

Love: The org chart says collaboration; the incentive structure says land grab.

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