Friction Was the Point
AI may not replace us through competition, but through attrition — the slow erosion of the friction that makes us capable.
Five disciplines, ten years. One engineer.
Sysadmin, cybersecurity, frontend, backend, now agentic engineer. The last two operating PRIVATEBYTE solo: a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and proxy network platform serving paying customers worldwide, with AI as a primary engineering collaborator.
The methodology in public. Incident post-mortems, architecture decisions, and what AI-as-collaborator actually looks like under production load.
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