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Hm, I’m not sure what you saw in the post before my edits, but I think this answers “did AI motivate / help discover the breakthroughs we saw 20 years ago?” which I definitely agree would be a “no”.

Either way, before and after my edits the intent was to identify areas in which distributed systems researchers moved their focus to support areas such as (but not exclusively) AI.

The question comes from me supposing that “pure” distributed systems research has slowed.