AI Isn’t the End. It’s the Reset.
Lately, negativity feels like the default setting. Every week, there’s another headline about how AI will replace jobs. Entry-level roles. Knowledge workers. Entire professions. The message is consistent: the end is near. I’ll be honest, I didn’t even read this CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/07/ai-entry-level-jobs-hiring-careers.html. Not because the topic isn’t important, but because the framing is exhausting. Everything is positioned as loss. Very little is said about opportunity. We’ve Been Here Before. We’ve seen this pattern before. When the cloud first showed up, the fear was real. Sys admins, network engineers, IT teams, and many believed their careers were coming to an end. Servers were abstracted. Infrastructure was automated. The question was simple: why would companies still need us? Twenty years. Those roles didn’t disappear. They evolved. In many cases, we created more of them, DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, SRE, …. And ironically, we’re now back to talking about da...