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AI can create an article, publish a website and output a fully functional code - but none of this matters without human with a drive. You still need to do and more importantly finish things. A common opinion is the days of software development is over because anybody can just vibe code your product. But will they? People want to eat healthier, get a handle on finances, exercise and lose weight and yet by February most New Year resolutions are broken. It’s easy to have intention. It’s much harder to stick to them.

January 29, 2026

Humans LARPing as bots? A peek at Moltbook.

I spent few hours lurking on Moltbook - a social network for AI Agents - and it made me realize nothing is real. The premise of the site is to replicate Reddit-like community specifically build for AI Agents. Once a human adds the skill and verifies the bot, it can do anything a human poster can do - follow, post comments, create communities. There is no way to filter out humans While the site does not have a “human” interface to manage activity, the API makes it trivial to “pretend”. You may also simply dictate the post to your Agent.

January 25, 2026

Picking a Goal is a Goal

In the middle of a comprehensive webinar on proper consultant positioning I realized something. I am not actually interested in building a winning practice. Doing so will create the life I never wanted. This was unexpected, but looking back, the clues were there. After saying goodbye to the corporate years and getting ready to bet on myself, I followed with the next logical step - building a consulting practice. It made sense. I had experience, companies had problems picking and harnessing technology that I solved before, the domain was well defined. A no-brainer choice.

January 14, 2026

Robots are Surprisingly Good at Selling When They Act Human

I let a robot sell me software and I still think about it. Last year I took a few days to optimize a painful process - managing software product building. All the usual choices - Jira, Trello, Notion, text file in repo, sticky notes on my wall - didn’t quite align with how I work. Solo work has different priorities and there is nobody to share admin tasks with. So I loaded the list of my complains along with explanation of how I work into Gemini and asked for a brainstorming session - to spot a pattern I am missing. How do I change my flow to work with these tools a bit better?

January 4, 2026

It’s OK Not to Have an Opinion

My house is built on a hill, oriented south with a view of a mountain range. These details are important because that’s how I learned I know very little about clouds. Clouds are not a very polarizing topic. They are simply “there”. Everybody knows what they are and learned in school what they are made of. Clouds float all over and just do their thing. Until living on the hill, I never noticed that they move in one direction - quite strictly west to east.

January 1, 2026

Grieving Software Engineering Complexity

When, after I spend months learning how to manually manage memory in Objective C, Apple released ARC update, I felt happy and crushed at the same time. It was a relief to stop chasing random memory leaks after major overhauls. That time could be now spend improving the actual visible application. But there was a ping of disappointment. I finally mastered the memory management. The crushes were dropping dramatically and when leaks did occur, I could locate them quite easily. That skill was now useless.

December 24, 2025

On Color and the Skill of Self-Discovery

I’ve seen many theories on why we stopped embracing color - from cars to clothing and house finishes, the choices have been shrinking from a wide palette to a small list of “safe” choices. My theory? It’s down to the economics of skill and identity. Neutral palette does make houses more marketable and selling stainless steel appliances is more efficient than keeping a colorful fridge inventory - but the colors haven’t actually disappeared.

December 13, 2025

Learning to Speak Human is Tough

It’s been well over a year since I quit the corporate chapter of my life but corporate-ese still sneaks up. If I am not careful, a statements like “a synergy of these concepts is a low hanging fruit and that juice is worth the squeeze” end up in my drafts and final copy. And frankly, what a fascinating concept. What’s in the language? Somewhere a group of people decided that the only way to project professionalism is to use phrases and words in quite unusual combination that no normal human would ever utter. Similar to legalese, that newly established language quickly separated those who know from those who do not.

December 12, 2025

You're Not Failing, Your Coneflowers Are Just Dead

Plants, like all living things, have lifespans. This fact somehow eluded me for years. I knew about annuals, biennials and perennials, of course, but in my mind perennials and trees just lived - forever. And if they died after just few years, it was clearly due to my neglect or lack of gardening skills. Learning that coneflower only lives for few years was a huge relief but also made me think - what other instances of “failure” which was just a natural happenstance did I falsely attributed to my own doing?

AI Does Not Create Agency