I ask myself if this time AI is different, if the 2026 hype is going to last. And every time, I remember this question has already been asked before. Twice, actually, and both times the answer was no, the money ran out and the labs pulled down the shutters. This chapter is the story of […]
READ MOREMy toaster doesn’t have AI. Neither does my toothbrush, nor 90% of the products that slapped “AI-powered” on the box this year without touching a single line of their firmware. I know because I’ve been writing code for a long time, and I can spot an if statement in a suit when I see one. […]
READ MOREWhy yet another language Go was born at Google in 2007, designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson (yes, Unix Ken Thompson), and open sourced in November 2009. Source: official Go FAQ. If the plan is to learn Go from scratch, this series starts right here. If the plan is to learn Go […]
READ MORESeveral years writing code, and only now am I catching up to a mistake I’ve been dragging along the whole time: zero open source contributions. I’d bang my head against a wall if it did any good. Not one team, not one manager, tech lead, or coworker ever brought it up. Repositories, yes, since day […]
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