What 16 Years in Infrastructure Taught Me About Building AI Platforms
May 2, 20267 min read
Long before 'AI engineering' was a job title, the discipline of keeping distributed systems reliable at 3am taught the same lessons that now apply to LLM-powered platforms: observability first, blast radius always in mind, and never ship what you can't roll back.
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