The human/AI interregnum: nobody can maintain our systems, and AI isn't ready yet
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-11-14
RT of @spakhm's argument: we're entering a human/AI interregnum where humans can no longer maintain our systems but AIs aren't yet good enough to take over. Since everything runs on software, every industry is exposed — expect more crippling failures, longer recovery times, and possibly catastrophic events that permanently destroy critical production systems.
The author sees this as a problem you outgrow rather than fix: models will keep improving and eventually extract tacit knowledge from our systems, fix outages, and adapt architectures to their own intelligence. But the next 2-5 years will likely bring tremendous volatility. Strap in for a very bumpy ride.
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