What Even Is AI? (I Took a Break & Had to Relearn Everything)

I just came back from maternity leave. And honestly? I felt like I'd missed a decade in six months. I talked about starting small in my other blog Lost in the AI Hype, I Started Small I've spent the last fifteen years designing cloud systems. And even I felt behind. AI went from a thing people were experimenting with to a thing everyone's apparently building with, and I had no idea where to start. So I did what any architect would do. I went back to first principles. I'm rebuilding my AI mental