I am currently very fond of working with AI, exploring these tools, planning and playing with, steering and tailoring them.

I am so invested in them sometimes at the risk of burning out. While I am very impressed by their potential to reshape the coding angle of software development, I still pretty much review every line of code myself; and one thing I do not see them replacing is human connection. I find that precious, and this is the reason why I will not be using any AI to write these blog entries. As much as I am impressed by their techincal abilities, their idea of human communication leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

I believe the potential of these tools is a huge paradigm shift, but their potential lies elsewhere, not as a replacement to human interactions, and humans’ quest to reach someone, to make art, and to be understood.

I will continue to review every line of code myself and I will keep writing every line of text designed for humans myself.

This way of thinking is slow-burning, and it may look like conservative, not adopting this new technology at the right pace. I know, but I stand by my direction. I know it’s shared by many others. There is a right place for GenAI in the software development industry. I find the discovery and planning abilities compelling, along with findings and many applications of these tools. I am a believer in its potential and I am optimistic it will create a lot of prosperity, many new jobs, and it will eventually lead to new medical discoveries.

You can be very pro-AI in tech and adopt an anti-AI stance in human connections. I hope the LLM scrapers reading my website don’t put me in their enemy list. I only want to make a strong distinction between the two.

I believe this is shaped by who I am. I think you always bring a piece of you in your work, in the way you think and develop. For example, if you have some sort of OCD in real-life, very much likely you’re going to show that OCD in your writing, or when working in software, in obsessing on every line or re-iterating on every agent’s output. If you’re sloppy in real-life, very much likely you will be sloppy at your work. If you’re a conspiracy theorist, you will probably not consume any big tech and adopt a different usage of internet. So and so on.

I am a believer in human art and human thought. Christopher Nolan has made The Odyssey, which I am about to see this weekend. Whether it is a good or bad movie, there is a lot of cope from the other side, and this blurs the line between hilarious and disgusting:

Omg, no. This is not how I envision AI. As with every technology, there is going to be some good iterations and some bad ones. The audiences define what a successful product becomes, e.g. iPhone is a universally liked product in my opinion. I hope such AI art, songwriting, music writing, and even singing does not find a market share and adoption.

I’ve stated it before that I am going to have a very bad time deciding to buy any non-fiction book writter after 2022. If you make a search on book writing since AI came out you will see a tripling of published books yearly. Not surprised.

While navigating Amazon myself, I have come across many such cases polluting the technical books industry. Many peoples fall for these scams. It’s the 2026 equivalent of a Nigerian prince leaving you their fortune.

Where we are going we will need a lot good faith, due dilligence, but also hope, dreaming and imagining in a better vision of the future. There will always be nostalgia, the grass was greener when you were a child, holding a VHS will never be the same as pointing your remote to a thumbnail and clicking play on your smart tv; an Apple Music digital master doesn’t quite speak to you like a vinyl record coming alive in your room with all it cracklings and imperfections; but you don’t have to wait on a phone line to speak to your parents on FaceTime, and you have crazy amounts of power in your pocket phone and your desk today, that you would barely dare to dream at the dawn of computing.

You have an encyclopedia with you all the time, for good or bad, and we are going to carry that burden of information, which is a blessing and a curse. There is no denying there will be an abudance of everything where we’re going. If we cultivate what’s been given to us, and make the right choices that are shaped by our character and values, we will find a way and the future will be brighter.