Truth of IT, AI and sense

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IT Is Power Link to heading

Automation has been world-scale power since World War II. AI does not change that. It only changes who can access it.

Automation has never worked “for you” by default. AI will not either. The same defensive mechanisms apply.

The system protects itself.

Fragmentation is one of those defenses. It prevents uninvited rises to power.

If you want market share, you are told you need an app on four platforms. To build that, you already need capital, distribution, and legitimacy. If you want traction, you need money. To get money, you need traction.

This is not accidental. It is the essence of pyramidal systems.

In any direct competition, the decisive advantage is surprise — a weapon the opponent does not expect. Markets are no different. Whether drugs, services, or software, the rule is the same: you want customers to know you exist while competitors do not.

Yet newcomers are taught the opposite: build in public, share everything, come with open hands — as if power has ever been granted freely.

In cultures with inherited capital and institutional trust, this illusion can survive. Elsewhere, it functions as extraction. The promise is always the same: someone won the lottery — work hard and it might be you.

Cultural memory has warned about this for millennia. Prometheus was not punished for kindness, but for stealing power prematurely.

Smokescreens are not moral failures. They are safeguards.

Those who see them can navigate. Those who do not are filtered out.

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This is written from nearly two decades behind a screen.

For two years I was paid well to build what was, in essence, a button calling an external service. That is not a complaint. It provided time and money. Both matter.

But once you build something real, you notice how aggressively usefulness is devalued.

Liquidity floods products whose primary function is compliance: don’t shake the boat — you have a job.

Todo apps raised billions. Not because they automate meaningfully, but because they are safe.

Most “creation” today is binding: gluing together logging services, monitoring services, analytics services, translation services, storage services, auth services, payment services.

What did you build?

This is not laziness. It is guided behavior.

Money flows steer developers away from capability and toward dependency. The web itself is structured around this principle.

Now widen the lens.

How many people in a country are builders by character? How many are trained as engineers? How many end up employed by foreign companies assembling SaaS stacks, mistaking API calls for ownership, platforms for infrastructure?

They are not idle. They are productive — inside fragmentation.

The result is predictable: local capability erodes, and sovereignty shifts to external platforms delivered “as a service.”

Even technical people lose power.

UX that is not o(1) is not automation. It is control through friction.

AI Power Redistribution Link to heading

AI changes one thing decisively:

Execution is no longer the bottleneck.

Coding agents, code search, and automated infrastructure inheritance remove manpower scarcity. Workforce becomes cheap. Speed becomes abundant.

Capability does not.

Scaling still depends on abstraction. Abstractions that can absorb exceptions without collapsing. Abstractions coherent enough to survive growth.

To the unskilled eye, high-level abstraction looks like noise. Rubbish and abstraction are indistinguishable without judgment.

That is the final bottleneck.

As execution flattens, control passes to those who own abstractions — not organizations with headcount. Companies will depend on them, not the reverse. Not out of ideology, but out of necessity.

This is not something that “must” stay so. It stays so because scaling fails without it.

For the first time, mechanics are no longer the constraint. Capability is.

Fragmentation declines. Coherent capability compounds.

These tools being public is not generosity. It is admission.

Those who can use them are rare. Those who cannot will be displaced — regardless of effort.

For a builder, this shift is not motivational. It is structural.

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With power comes responsibility — but responsibility is not assigned by declaration.

The remaining work is not invention. It is inheritance.

Understanding existing intent. Indexing accumulated systems. Maintaining coherence under growth.

Very few can do this. Fewer will choose to.

No invitation is required. The system selects on its own.

Those who align will find leverage. Those who do not will fragment — efficiently, at scale.