Co-authored with Diego Casati on the Azure Global Black Belts blog.
Every step forward in the infrastructure stack has produced the same pattern: we solve the immediate problem and discover a harder one waiting behind it. Containers solved manual server config. Kubernetes solved container sprawl. And now we are coordinating distributed systems across teams who can barely talk to each other.
The piece argues the real problem is not technical - it is that our solutions keep outpacing our ability to operate them at human scale. Silos are not the enemy. The inability to help specialists communicate across silos is.
This is where the AI control plane argument starts for me. Not with “AI writes code faster” but with “AI as the coordination layer that humans cannot sustainably be.”