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Output, Outcome, and Where AI's Money Actually Ends Up
Part 2 of a two-part series: AI-driven savings in software delivery split between clients and infrastructure or foundation-model providers rather than reaching delivery partners, output-based payment works for standardised work but not complex development, and staged, hybrid contracts are the likely result.
The AI Hype Will Fade the Same Way Cloud and Offshoring Did
AI hype will fade the way offshoring and cloud hype did: the doing gets cheaper while thinking becomes the scarce skill, and the trough of disillusionment is where competency, not just execution, gets tested against reality.
What "Cluster Ready" Actually Means
What it actually means for an application to be 'cluster ready': graceful shutdown, correctly scoped health probes, statelessness, and container hardening are not separate checklist items but consequences of one assumption — that a pod can be replaced at any moment without that counting as a failure.
