{"slug": "rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if", "title": "Rewrote this after a year of choosing boring, deterministic solutions over bolting AI onto everything. Curious if others have made the same call, or regretted skipping AI somewhere.", "summary": "Vijay Kanna, a developer, spent a year removing the server from his application, choosing deterministic solutions over integrating AI. He questions whether others have made similar decisions or regret skipping AI in certain areas.", "body_md": "Everyone's Adding AI to Everything. I Spent a Year Removing the Server Instead\nVijay Kanna\nVijay Kanna\nVijay Kanna\nFollow\nJul 31\nEveryone's Adding AI to Everything. I Spent a Year Removing the Server Instead\n#\ndiscuss\n#\nwebdev\n#\nai\n#\njavascript\n5\nreactions\nAdd Comment\n3 min read", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/vijay_kanna_56/been-getting-some-pushback-on-this-one-in-the-comments-which-is-exactly-what-i-wanted-genuinely-26gh", "published_at": "2026-07-31 10:11:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 10:36:13.368541+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Vijay Kanna"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rewrote-this-after-a-year-of-choosing-boring-deterministic-solutions-over-ai-if.jsonld"}}