I’ve been watching the AI hype cycle the same way I watch most hype cycles: from a safe distance. Mildly amused, occasionally curious, but never fully buying in.
These days I’m working at a client creating workflows for their state of the art private cloud platform. It’s really quite nice: internal clients can use a webportal to request machines, which are then customized with Puppet runs and workflows to install additional software and perform custom tasks like registering the machine in a CMDB.
Let’s start with a riddle: what does a developer do to unwind at the end of a frustrating day at the office ? Answer: he goes home and takes some time to write more code.
