Pick Boring Technology. Yes, Especially for AI.

What "Boring" Actually Means Boring technology does not mean old technology. It does not mean slow, limited, or low-quality. It means technology that has been in production long enough that its failure modes are documented, its operational characteristics are well understood, and the person debugging it at 2am has a reasonable chance of finding a Stack Overflow answer that is not from a beta forum post in 2024. A plain HTTP API with JSON is boring. SQLite, for things that fit in SQLite, is boring. None of these things are slow, limited, or embarrassing to use.