Visual glossary infra ↔ AI: your Rosetta Stone
Final post in the series. In the previous one, we built the 6-phase adoption framework. This one is the cheat sheet. You already speak infrastructure fluently. AI is not a foreign language. It is infrastructure with worse naming and more hype. This glossary maps each AI term to something you already understand. tl;dr This glossary maps AI jargon to infra concepts so you can reason about AI systems without switching mental models. Use it as a translation sheet for conversations about models, data, compute, serving, and ops. When a term drives architecture or cost, check the underlying docs before repeating exact numbers. How to use this Every entry has: the AI term, the infra analogy in parentheses, a concise definition, and when you’ll encounter it in your work. It is split into 6 categories so you can find things fast instead of pretending you remember all of it. ...