Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that’s just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don’t think about it.
But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.
You might not like AI for what it stands or for the negative impact it has on the world, but you can’t deny that LLM like we have today are a marvel of technology, an incredibly complex technology that would have felt science fiction just a decade ago.
Yeah, but it’s not good infrastructure. It’s not sustainable, it’s privately controlled, and it’s destined to be enshittified. Infrastructure needs to be well thought out and publicly regulated, AI is the opposite.
Simply doing a traceroute to a website in another country a long time ago fascinated me. Seeing it hit all of the routers in other cities then across the ocean to another continent and back in less than 100ms blew my mind.
Led me down that path and now I’ve been a network engineer for over 10 years.
Infrastructure is all about unbelievable feats of engineering that are taken for granted. Sewage systems, running water, electricity, roads, public transport, cars, physical mail, and grocery stores/supermarkets are all unbelievable achievements that we all take for granted to varying degrees, and that’s just off the top of my head. IP networking is just more of that. Absolutely crazy, and by design we don’t think about it.
But AI (also depicted in this gif) is not in the same category IMO, for a lot of reasons.
You might not like AI for what it stands or for the negative impact it has on the world, but you can’t deny that LLM like we have today are a marvel of technology, an incredibly complex technology that would have felt science fiction just a decade ago.
Yeah, but it’s not good infrastructure. It’s not sustainable, it’s privately controlled, and it’s destined to be enshittified. Infrastructure needs to be well thought out and publicly regulated, AI is the opposite.
Simply doing a traceroute to a website in another country a long time ago fascinated me. Seeing it hit all of the routers in other cities then across the ocean to another continent and back in less than 100ms blew my mind.
Led me down that path and now I’ve been a network engineer for over 10 years.