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With AI emerging in a few years it became a hot topic. Lots of new terms that has appeared proves we are facing something new. Language is a perfect mirror, that reflects the reality. New terms means reality requires new abstractions to deal with it. While „vibe coding”, „agentic coding” and other definitions that indicates software development (coding) happens with AI - it does not reflect the entire shift. And it is not yet happening, rather it’s something that stops us. Why we can’t hire A

Back in times people tried to build a tower to reach the sky. When God learned about it - he disrupted people’s plan making everyone speaking their own language. This way people could not understand each other anymore. This story is known as the story of Tower of Babel. And I have mentioned it earlier in my blog. I have more to say and present a different perspective on this metaphor. The AI revolution I’ve seen many bold promises, like “the most popular programing language will be English”.

It’s hard to see we are trading complex thinking for potential miracles of effortless engineering. The dying culture It’s hard to see we are trading complex thinking for potential miracles of effortless engineering. Modern AI hype reminds me games and movies, where humanity has lost access to all the knowledge and technologies. And instead of prosperity - it has fallen back into undeveloped tribes. A limited access to ancestor technologies is the last reminder of advanced engineering. The

Technical battles are favorite approach how to talk about technologies for many software engineers, who are often “geeks”. It may happen on any level: hardware, operating systems, window managers, distributions, IDEs and text editors and of course - software technical stack. There is nothing wrong to discuss, disagree and prove your own point. The problem starts when rationality is replaced with beliefs. The perfect stack does not exist. Each and every decision is a trade-off: solving one probl

Building solo gives us complete freedom. Including freedom of choosing technologies. How to make best decision and choosing wisely - avoiding mistakes, keep the journey interesting and still deliver? In this article I will share my point of view on the technological aspects of solo building and share my perspective of making a choice. I will start with common advices, the ones you have most probably heard already. First of all: trendy, bleeding edge and hyped technologies are not meant for solo