Infrastructure for One

This article discusses how AI collaboration has fundamentally changed the economics of building personal software tools. Previously, creating custom infrastructure (like plugins or note-taking systems) required excessive time and expertise, making it cheaper to adapt to generic tools. Now, AI enables rapid development, making it viable to build 'infrastructure for one'—tools tailored exactly to an individual's workflow. The author illustrates this with their own Obsidian vault evolution, shifting from numbered folders to a meaningful structure as their relationship with the system deepened. The piece is relevant to IT/technology, focusing on software development, personal tooling, and AI's impact on productivity.