State is always where the most difficult problems arise — avoid it if possible.
A 2013 reminder still propagating. State is where bugs live, races start, distributed failures are born. Serverless, event-sourcing, CRDTs all follow from this.
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Every layer we stack between ourselves and the metal eventually breaks. The fix isn't a better abstraction—it's knowing what's underneath when it does.
We believe it is possible that by 2027 or 2028, AI systems will saturate all capability benchmarks referenced in the GPT-5, Claude 4, or Gemini 2.5 technical reports.
Even optimists and skeptics agree: the scoreboard is about to be maxed out. The hard problem shifts from benchmarks to whether any of it matters outside a test.
A practitioner's case for treating distributed-systems thinking as a default skill, not a specialist one, as single-machine assumptions keep breaking in production.