I looked at the calendar — mid-2026. Everyone is shouting about “agentic workflows,” but I’m still digging through a pile of burnt TVs and broken Docker containers. The industry is sliding into a weird place.
Take repair, for example. Yesterday I was trying to revive a logic board. It’s not just about the hardware anymore. Everything is locked behind software certificates. Even if you bridge the short circuit (КЗ) and replace the components in the power supply stage (обвязка), the CPU might just refuse to boot because it didn’t “handshake” with a cloud server.
Same with code. I tried to use a local LLM to write a quick parser for my logs. The model hallucinated a library that doesn’t exist. I spent an hour debugging a script that was supposed to save me ten minutes. In the end, I deleted the whole “AI-generated” mess and wrote the middleware manually. It’s faster, cleaner, and it actually works.
Where are we heading? To a point where everyone can press a “Generate” button, but nobody understands how the current flows through the traces or how packets travel through the network.
The takeaway: Keep your hands dirty. Self-host your services while you still can. If your data and your tools aren’t on your local instance, you don’t really own them. Use the AI as a fast stack-overflow search, but don’t let it drive.