The Five-Layer Operating System — A Decision Framework for the AI Era
Dev.to AI
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Data Science
Every month, a new headline: "AI can now write code." "AI can now design interfaces." "AI can now do data analysis." "AI can now write books." Each time you see one of these, you're supposed to feel something. Excitement. Anxiety. Hope. Fear. Here's what you should actually feel: a signal that a layer just got commoditized. Not "AI became perfect at X." Just - the entry barrier to X dropped to zero. Supply exploded. Price collapsed. The middle tier got squeezed. This isn't a technology story. It's a structural story.