The Glue Problem in Modern AI Development
James Skelton
AI is now central to modern software development. Teams across industries are turning to AI to solve product and workflow problems in software. But building production systems is still complex. The hardest part of deploying AI isn’t the model, it’s everything around it. That complexity becomes a glue-code problem when storage, compute, orchestration, networking, authentication, and inference live in separate systems with different operating models. The more seams a workflow crosses, the more dev