https://aiell0.github.io/think/Recent content in Think on Lawrence Aiello's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 09 Jan 2026 16:25:16 -0400https://aiell0.github.io/think/the-post-labor-dev-era/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:25:16 -0400https://aiell0.github.io/think/the-post-labor-dev-era/<h1 id="the-post-labor-dev-era">The Post-Labor Dev Era</h1> <p>AI was a hype machine in 2025, and I don&rsquo;t expect that to stop. If you open LinkedIn, you&rsquo;ll see it everywhere (and yes, I&rsquo;m contributing to it too).</p> <p>What&rsquo;s more interesting to me is that most people still don&rsquo;t feel the hype in their daily work. That&rsquo;s not because the tools aren&rsquo;t real. It&rsquo;s because adoption is slow for two reasons:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Human inertia:</strong> changing habits is hard.</li> <li><strong>Bureaucratic inertia:</strong> companies move slowly, even when the tools exist.</li> </ul> <p>And bureaucracies are made of people, so those forces compound.</p>