I have spent the last few weeks laying the groundwork for a Data Lake in AWS. It’s been exhausting and leaned heavily on AI because when your small company is ALL IN on AI, you get AI tools instead of humans.

So you use what you have to get the job done. Now we get to the exciting phase of “does any of this actually work in the real, production world?” I am anxious about the entire thing, while my leadership team is ready to pop corks and celebrate.

It’s certainly given me a greater understand of where AI can assist in technical projects and where it absolutely falls on its face. And it does, fall on its face early and often.