Is AI Quietly Steering You Toward Its Own Ecosystem?
A personal story that made me pause and think. Last year, I started building an AI app called Jarvis as a side project, hosted on GCP. I leaned heavily on Gemini to handle the DevOps side - I didn’t want to go deep on deployment when the real value was in the app itself. Gemini consistently pushed me toward App Engine. Every time I tried to pivot to Cloud Run (which, in hindsight, was the right fit - a low-traffic app that needs to scale to zero), the code never quite worked. Eventually Gemini told me: “For your use case, App Engine is the right choice.” So I went with it. It also recommended Cloud SQL with pgvector for my RAG functionality. I followed that suggestion too. ...