one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Security by obscurity is an old phenomenon. Security by speed would be the new one with modern AI-assisted development. Not vulnerability, but code will only exist for a short time for exploitation.
There won't be a better time than rn. Earlier, you would need a huge investment in building an open and secure solution that most people will not use, and you can't really build an alternate stack against a corporation. As of today, a small team/single dev is hacking solutions that the whole internet is using. Very soon, we will see the abstraction of tools. It's imperative that they are open, inspectable and secure.
A company like Cerebras is solving the problem where people are finding workarounds. Look at their inference speedup with a custom-made wafer-scale design. similar thing gonna happen soon where throughtput is an issue. Need more companies like Cerebras that can think up solutions from first principles and spend $500 million on research.
After months building with Claude Code, I started noticing a pattern. With coding agents, development cycles are faster. Freezing decisions into code will stop working. At some point you need context awareness at runtime. Agents will take over that core logic. What remains is wiring. DNS, HTTP, file paths. Just plumbing. Then I thought about where this is heading at current pace. The plumbing gets abstracted too. What's left after that? Configuring agents. That's the job now