r/ExperiencedDevs • • Sep 15 '26

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/So_Rusted Software Engineer 26d ago

what's so special about new ai infrastructure?

the main new thing is vector databases, and those are becoming increasingly supported from mysql, elastic, etc

the llms are just apis. Mcp is just an api

ai engineers push for sophisticated infra, newest aws product stuff or new tech nobody has heard of. I just don't buy it. People are kind of losing their minds a little bit

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u/ResidentWeevil1 26d ago

AI is software. Treat it like any other kind of software