The Day the Skeptic Blinked
Journey from AI skeptic to convert--proving that the future belongs to experts who learned to work with machines.
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Blink, and your entire worldview could shift.
Kenton Varda, lead engineer at Cloudflare, was convinced AI was overrated. “Glorified Markov chain generators,” he called them. Pattern matchers pretending to understand code.
So he decided to prove it. Build an OAuth library with Claude. Watch it stumble. Have a quiet laugh.
Plot twist: The code was actually good.
This wasn’t a vibe-coding experiment where you trust the machine blindly. Every line was reviewed by security experts and cross-referenced with RFCs. When Claude made mistakes (and it did), humans caught them and guided the fix.
This isn’t a story about AI replacing humans. It’s about AI speed and human expertise combining into something neither could achieve alone.
We keep asking the wrong question: “Will AI take my job?”
The better question: “How do I become the kind of human that makes AI more powerful?”
The landscape is moving fast. Token economics are shifting. Interfaces are commoditizing. The flywheel effect is spinning up for the big players.
And somewhere in this chaos, a skeptic just got converted.
Your move.
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