AI and Killing People's Pets

I have made a career out of being the last person out of the room. Whenever there's some project that exists, that no one else wants to deal with, but generally Keeps The Lights On, for a given org, inevitably, it falls into my lap. This is not a place of honor. I have never been lauded as a hero for all the fires I never let start. My job consists of fixing and maintaining stuff. Sometimes that means porting something from one programming language to another, or ripping out one data storage system for some