I’ve killed a lot of projects. Not dramatically, not with a bang — just the slow quiet death of a thing I was once genuinely excited about, now sitting in a folder called _archive or ideas-v3 or DO NOT DELETE (old).

The pattern was always the same. I’d have an idea. I’d get obsessed. I’d research, sketch, prototype, problem-solve — and then somewhere between “this is going to be amazing” and “okay, now I just need to actually build the whole thing,” my brain would file it under Not Interesting Anymore and walk away.

I’m neurodivergent. This isn’t a discipline problem. It’s executive dysfunction. The ideation phase gives me dopamine. The execution phase gives me friction. And my brain has a very simple policy: no dopamine, no deal.

The graveyard of my ideas is full of things I loved right up until the moment I had to shovel.

Enter AI, stage left

I’m not going to pretend AI is a magic cure. But for me, it’s the closest thing I’ve found to a scaffold for the parts of a project my brain refuses to carry.

The first shift was small: I could use it to unfold an idea. Talk it through, get a sanity check, ask the dumb questions, do quick research, chase tangents without losing the thread. It felt like having a project buddy who was just as excited as I was — and who never got bored when I changed direction for the fourth time in an hour.

The second shift was the big one. When we finally hit the okay, let’s do this moment, the AI didn’t stop. It kept going. It started building. And I stayed in the loop — giving input, steering, correcting — but I wasn’t the one shoveling anymore.

I’m still there. I’m still navigating. But I’m not driving.

Think of it less like a chauffeur and more like the friend who drives you home when you’re not feeling good. They’re not becoming your personal driver. They’re not taking over your life. They’re just getting you from A to B tonight, because tonight you can’t do it yourself. Tomorrow, maybe you can. Tonight, they’ve got you.

And that’s the difference. The friend gets me home tonight. The project gets finished. Not another 80% draft rotting in a folder called ideas-v3, not another thing I loved right up until the shoveling started. It ships. It’s happened before — just far less often than not.

The project that actually made it

For months I had a job tracker app in my head. Not a vague idea — a real one. I knew what it should do, how it should feel, what problem it solved. I just couldn’t start it.

I was burned out. Depressed from job searching. The mental energy required to build the thing simply wasn’t there, and no amount of “just start small” advice was going to manufacture it.

I tried some early agentic flows. Not great. Then two months ago, something clicked: I built my own agentic system from open-source and cheap parts — good enough output, not the $200–300/month Claude Max tier, because when you’re unemployed you don’t exactly have that lying around.

That system and I spent two months building the app. And a few days ago, I slapped the v1.0 label on it and open-sourced the whole thing for free.

Two months. From can’t start to shipped. That’s not a productivity hack. That’s a different life.

(Why I open-sourced it is another blog post.)

“But did you really make it?”

I see the discourse. Vibe-coding, AI-generated everything, people confidently declaring “I made this” over something a model assembled in an afternoon.

And honestly? I think that’s fine. You wired the electricity in your room — you didn’t smelt the copper or forge the pliers. A tool is a tool.

Here’s the thing though: the tool doesn’t decide how much of the process matters to you. You do.

You want coffee? Push a button on a machine, walk into a café, or roast, grind, and scientifically brew it yourself. Same end product, wildly different process. Nobody’s out here accusing the café customer of cheating at caffeine.

So the real question isn’t “did you use a tool.” It’s “how much of the process did you want to own — and did the tool let you get to the part that actually mattered to you?”

For most of my life, the answer was: I wanted to own all of it, and so I owned none of it, because I never finished anything. Now I own the parts that matter. The rest gets carried. The project exists. The v1.0 exists.

I’ll take that trade every time.

The part where I stop being polite about it

There’s a version of this conversation that collapses into two camps: AI is slop versus AI is the future. Both feel like people yelling past each other from opposite ends of a very wide room.

I think we’re being way too precious about this. The current cultural reflex — don’t offend anyone, don’t say the wrong thing, don’t step on toes — has made us terrified of actually having the argument. And this argument needs to happen. Not the polite version. The real one.

So here’s the real one.

Using AI to help you finish a project your disability was blocking? Not the same as scraping artists’ work to undercut them. Using AI to research and structure your own ideas? Not the same as generating a fake persona to scam people. Using AI to carry a project you’re genuinely invested in across the finish line? Not the same as pumping out engagement-farm content.

And here’s what keeps getting lost: the AI decides none of that. The AI isn’t greedy. It doesn’t want to dominate a market. It doesn’t consciously steal someone’s craft and slap its own name on it. Every one of those decisions is made by a human. Every one of those behaviors is human behavior. We were doing all of this to each other long before the models showed up.

That doesn’t let the companies off the hook, by the way. The incentives baked into these tools — what the defaults are, what the training data was, who profits — are choices made by humans too. Greedy corporations preprogramming behavior into a product is still a human decision. But it’s a different human decision than the one I’m making when I use the tool to build something I couldn’t otherwise build.

The model is a mirror. What you see in it depends on who’s holding it.

The tattoo

In Thailand, a lot of fighters and people in dangerous jobs wear sak yant — sacred tattoos, often Khmer script, inked by monks or ajarns. To an outsider they look like a few wavy lines. Some tourists get them as “cool” souvenirs, not always knowing what they signed up for.

Here’s the twist: they’re protective blessings. But the belief goes that they only work if you live a true and honest life. Walk the wrong path, and the same tattoo that was meant to protect you turns into a curse.

I think that’s a pretty good way to think about AI.

A tool that protects you — carries you across the finish line, gets you home, builds the thing you couldn’t build — as long as you’re honest about what it is and what you’re doing with it. And the moment you use the same tool to lie, to steal someone’s craft, to scam, it digs you a deeper hole and lets your moral compass rot even further.

The tattoo doesn’t decide which it is. You do.

Same tool. Different life.

Yes, a lot of workflows are collapsing into text and voice, with the AI acting as a proxy — a UI translator that interprets what you want and executes it by best effort. That part is real.

But I’ve seen this shift before. When YouTube flooded the internet with DIY tutorials, people started building shit for themselves. Most failed. A few turned it into whole careers. The point isn’t the outcome — it’s that people started making custom things, for themselves, that fit their needs exactly. Because you can pour endless engineering hours and money into a product trying to serve everyone, and it still won’t fit anyone perfectly. The user just bleeds out trying to customize a monster.

The output of vibecoding is micro-apps

With easy AI access and tooling like skills and agents, people can build digital things for themselves. Fully customized. Super tight scope. And this is the real output of vibecoding: micro, single-purpose apps. Not because people suddenly became engineers, but because people who already know their own problems in their own field can finally build the fix themselves — instead of wrestling with a Goliath suite for weeks and paying a hefty subscription to cover 90% of their needs at best.

Will these micro-apps be better than commercial solutions? Engineering-wise, no. Security-wise… eee. Design? Yes and no. But they’re tailor-made. And that’s the new UI/UX nobody’s really talking about.

The subscription gold fever

The last ten years have been a kind of gold fever. Everyone building on the subscription model, giants migrating to it because it’s more stable income than one-time purchases. Microtransactions became the norm. And people eat it.

Five to ten dollars a month has no weight for most modern middle-class families. But multiply that a few times. Ten times. More. Same for professionals. Back then you bought Photoshop and worked with it for years. Now you pay monthly. Even when you don’t have work.

So this shift mostly hurts the companies that jumped on the monthly model for simple things — not out of malice, but because the incentives said squeeze. More out of the user base, smoother numbers for the shareholders, a nicer line on the pitch deck. Founders who saw a subscription and thought recurring revenue before they thought does this thing need to recur. The gold rush, not the gold diggers.

Why do I need to pay monthly or yearly for a small app that puts a white frame around my photos?

It’s like if my pliers or my screwdrivers stopped working because I didn’t pay every month. We’re talking about tools.

It doesn’t matter if it’s digital or physical. Same bullshit argument as digital games you “buy” but don’t own.

Let me support you with a single purchase and we say goodbye. Oh, it’s more expensive than the “invisible” chipping away at my wallet? Yeah — maybe I’ll rethink whether I actually need it.

To be fair: subscriptions make sense for things that actually do something meaningful in the cloud. Processing, generating, hosting at scale. Work that couldn’t happen on your laptop, with a real ongoing cost — compute, bandwidth, storage you actually need. That’s an ongoing utility bill, and you should pay it.

But there’s a difference between a cloud feature that earns its keep and a cloud feature bolted on to justify the meter. Storing my half-written blog posts in markdown on a server for €9.99 a month isn’t a utility. It’s a hard drive with a login page and no way to opt out.

And then there’s the other flavor of the same trick: taking something that used to run perfectly fine on your own machine for years, and moving it to the cloud so the meter can run. Yes, I’m looking at you, Adobe.

And yes, I participated in those projects. Sat in those meetings. Built many dark patterns. I was part of the machine. Not proud of it, in case you wonder.

The UI layer is the part that changes

This is where it gets interesting. The data infrastructure stays. Nobody’s rebuilding Postgres or Stripe or S3. What changes is the UI layer — the way we interact with all that infrastructure.

The old model: Swiss Army Knife aggregators. One bloated app that proxies a dozen services, wraps them in a subscription, and serves everyone mediocrely.

The new model: small purpose-made software, often self-hosted, doing one thing exactly right for one person or one team.

I just did this. I had Cloudflare, Umami, and GitHub each tracking different things, each with its own monstrous dashboard, each generating its own noise. So I defined what I actually care about, and when. Now I have a self-hosted dashboard that shows exactly 100% of what I need, refreshing every 8 hours — because that’s plenty. I can still go crawl through the complex dashboards if I want. But realistically, I’ll just ask my agent when I need something, rather than navigating the labyrinth.

From the SaaS perspective, the agent became the client and the MCP became the user interface.

When your agent is the one hitting the API, the UI isn’t a dashboard or a settings panel. It’s the schema, the tool definitions, the permissions. That’s what the SaaS company is actually designing for. The human never sees the screen — they see the outcome. Everything else is handled by the user and their agent.

You can spend as long as you want polishing dashboard customization features. If a user can do a custom build in a few hours with AI, they will. I did.

We don’t need SaaS to become everything. We need MCP endpoints and scoped tokens from providers. That’s it. I don’t care about your animated graphs. I have my own.

The security can of worms

Yes, this opens a huge security question. Agent credentials, scope creep, prompt injection, an agent with write access to your infra and a helpful attitude. Security people are right to be loud.

But the comparison isn’t “agents vs. a perfectly secure system.” It’s “agents vs. how humans actually operate today.” Shared passwords in Slack. Tokens nobody rotated since 2022. That one intern with prod access. The bar isn’t perfection. It’s better than us. And we are not a high bar.

The weakest link in security has always been the human. Decades of infosec and it hasn’t changed. If you drop API keys into a chat or never ask your agent to perform a security audit because you took it for granted — or worse, never thought it mattered — well, those are human decisions.

Your agent deleted all your data? Well…

Mine noticed I’d wired the prod DB to staging and pulled its own killswitch on a deployment. Not because agents are magic. Because I’d built the guardrail. The agent just didn’t get tired.

I’m not claiming my agent is smarter than yours. I’m claiming I wired the killswitch. But I’ve also spent two decades building for the web, so I pay a bit more attention to the big picture — rather than writing a Reddit post about how Google is cooked because my vibecoded app, still in the oven, killed it. Speed intoxicates. Intoxicated people get sloppy. Sloppy humans get sloppy agents. Simple as that.

The gatekeeping is gone

With AI, a huge part of the gatekeeping just got demolished. The value is no longer in “I dare to touch the computer.” It’s in “I know how to do this properly.”

The waves will quiet down. People will figure out where vibecoded stuff belongs. Some will become better builders. Some will just use it to communicate their idea and their needs to professionals who know how to finish it — which is the same shape as the DIY wave. Some learn the trade. Some hire the tradesperson. The market stratifies.

So what actually happens

After the DIY video wave, carpenters and electricians and plumbers were still alive. The market just shifted. People pay for comfort. They could do it properly themselves, but once the enthusiasm fades and the thing starts feeling like a chore, they hire a professional.

A website or app is different though. Is it? Infrastructure, scaling, UX auditing, accessibility — still things a normal person can’t really do even with AI. And yes, AI will keep evolving into a better executor. But it still won’t know what to do. Only the user knows. And the professionals who help the user figure it out.

SaaS isn’t dying. It’s splitting.

• The commodity middle — the bloated tool trying to be everything for everyone — that’s what’s dying.
• Personal agents and micro-apps eat the low-stakes, single-user, narrow-scope work.
• High-stakes, high-iteration, high-integration work consolidates into fewer, sharper professionals, and the SaaS companies that serve them ship MCP endpoints instead of dashboards.

The middle of software is what’s dying. Not the ends.

And look at your own week. How many of those dashboards did you actually open — versus just wanting one number?

I mean they knew what they were doing, in their own field. They knew how to write the code, how to design that button, how to do… their thing. Nothing more.

I always had the “weird” habit of actually registering a user account with my private email. Try out the flow, get notifications. Purchase with my own card. Be a daily user. And I think this is a very very underrated thing to do.

Yes you can do user interviews, dig through tons of data, analytics, heat maps, logs, whatever to learn more about user behavior. And all that is legit, don’t get me wrong.

But!

Experiencing the product or service by yourself provides some really important lessons. Especially if you just joined the company and have no idea about what is what.

Ohh, ProtonMail actually throws this into spam. Ohh, my Revolut Visa card gets rejected. Ohh, I can’t even open it on my vacation in Thailand.

Ohh, this pretty much sucks…

The user doesn’t care about your green-lit E2E suite, they don’t care about your QA team’s routine, and they don’t care that you could read that pale gray text on your Apple magic display.

Additionally tech people tend to compare the users to themselves, meanwhile the reality of “technical illiteracy” is a real slap in the face.

According to the OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) only about 5.8% of adults reached the highest level of computer proficiency.

A very large group has low or no skills. 26% of adults across OECD countries were unable to use a computer at all in the assessment. Roughly 13% of those who attempted the computer-based test couldn’t accomplish even the most basic tasks (like using a mouse), and about 10% opted out entirely.

So building on confident assumptions even when you yourself never used the product is pretty much shooting yourself in the foot professionally.

Yes, you still get your salary, still close tickets and walk out the door at five. I get it if you don’t care. Not many do.

But think for a minute when you are pissed off by some service or app that you try to use.

Just think about this for a moment.

The agent started to hit the wall with some fancy JS rendered documentation page and had to run circles to find a readable source on GitHub.

People spent a decade saying “accessibility is a nice-to-have” or “low priority” and built websites only a fully functioning human eyeball with a mouse could use. Now they want an AI agent to go read those same sites for them, and the agent is standing there like:

“Bro. There’s no content. There’s a div. There’s a spinner. There’s a Cloudflare page calling me a bot.”

And the dev who shipped it is like “why can’t my agent read this???” — bruh, neither can a blind guy, and you didn’t care then either…

The agent isn’t broken, the internet is.

The majority skipped the accessibility bill for 15 years, and now the AI they bought to do their reading for them is handing them the invoice. Now we want to automate everything with widely accessible and cheap help from AI but we can’t because it’s broken.

And yes there are MCPs now and computers fully controlled by the “coworker” agents, which solves the problem on some level, but in a very inefficient way if you ask me. And it’s actually very sad that people now care more about serving machines than their fellow disabled humans.

Yes, I know, we can say the same technology actually can make the broken web accessible for everyone, as I can just speak to the machine and it does the trick. But to be honest I don’t really see people talking about this or anyone pushing this angle.

The takeaway is to keep it simple, focus on functioning and semantic solutions, especially for technical things. Nobody cares if that arrow animates in your API docs. Seriously.

And make websites accessible for the love of Buddha.

But we are completely missing the point where our brain can really lay back into retrospective mode, can take a step away and think, reflect on the things going on. Pause a bit and take a breath.

With all creation getting super fast, people are getting intoxicated and just pushing output. But most forget to take a break. It was an important part of the “oldschool” way of doing things and should be still important now.

The point is to be aware of what you are doing. Trust the process. Enjoy the ride. Be yourself.

It doesn’t matter how you do it. Hustlers and copycats always existed and always leeched on real, knowledgeable professionals and artists. This did not change with AI. Just the entry ticket got cheaper and it’s easier to get a taste from the “booze”. But from that point it’s up to you what to do with the newly available power.

Use it wisely, take your time.

Make decisions. Change your mind. Do a complete 180° turn or just scrap the whole thing because it doesn’t spark joy anymore.

With AI we just pile up “done” tasks and we don’t care if it was actually what we wanted, or anyone wanted as a matter of fact.

We just ship, scale, deliver. And it became so “cheap” especially in time it doesn’t carry the same weight as before. It becomes weightless and valueless.

And yes, it happened few times in our lifetime already; exactly how digital devices replaced analog ones, losing meaning and value from the process. We don’t think before a photo, we don’t frame, we don’t judge, we just shoot 200 images because it’s “free” and we are not limited anymore by the 24–32 frames on a roll of film. 30 years ago people spent more time on composition - and maybe never pushed the button - than we spend today on end-to-end photography.

So what’s my point?

Keep creating. Just give it time.

Let it rest. Let it mature.

Let it fail. Let it be reborn.

Both your mind and your product.

Sidenote:

I might not be the most popular with my opinion, but I’m personally somewhere between the two parties on this topic.

Yes, yes. Incoming slop tsunami! AI is stealing. And all the battle cry we already know from the internet. But hear me out.

Not gonna lie; I find it somewhat disgusting how some companies are making humongous profit from open knowledge, technically selling you the very same thing that someone else contributed to the world, often free of charge. It’s hard to argue. Period.

You can make slop fair and square, you can push out honest people from the craft and live with this. It’s on you and your conscience.

But equally hard to deny the fact how AI assisted tooling can make people more efficient and less dependent on what they are doing. How it can help services become more accessible, how it can help millions of people.

It’s really a two edged blade.

It’s up to you. Always been.

I think we all heard this a few times in our lives. We all know what it means. But we don’t really apply it to everything, at least not by default. Or it’s just me. Anyways.

Of course espionage, government secret agencies, Jason Bourne and such come to mind first.

But what about when tech companies acquire each other? Hmmm. Yup.

Sure, a few times there is a genius idea – maybe even a patent was filed to protect it – but that’s not really holding back big players from just copying it and then push the envelope to have a settlement outside of court.

With AI the indie SaaS market also went nuts. Now everyone has the power to “do their own version”. Everybody shipping, everybody building and immediately slapping a fat subscription model on it to milk the customers.

But they are missing the point: with AI just as it was super easy to build your product, the neighbors, the mailman and your own cousins can do it. Just as easy if not easier. So by the time you read the first comment on Product Hunt you already have 10 competitors, technically killing each other.

So what is the point then?

Ego? Perhaps. Unfulfilled dreams? Can be.

But I have a better candidate.

It’s the data. The knowledge. The intel. Always been the data.

Data is time, time is money so my assumption is that data is money, and big data is big money.

Buying up an already decently filled and very specific data pool is much easier than building the tool, spending on marketing, scaling, potentially failing. You know, the whole circus.

Especially with the pattern when the acquired company is just simply shut down after the deal. We’ve seen this many times.

Same thing for investment. Sharks of course look at the return, but they don’t calculate it from how amazing your model is. But how much can it be worth, what it knows about people. Simple as that.

No wonder money is pouring into companies with AI boosted engines under the hood. The perfect harvesting machine.

“but hey, talk about how ethical it is to harvest data from your “innocent” users!”

Honestly? These days I find it a rather pointless topic to argue.

We got gigantic data giants where we voluntarily give away everything, we got fake job ads just collecting your CV and personal data. I won’t continue the list. You know.

So you can just follow the industry standard and sell it to advertisers then take a seat in the “Big Tech Hall of Fame”.

Or a more ethical route can be taken with handpicking what data you actually collect and how, but most importantly what to do with it.

Like for instance use it to shine some light on underrepresented research areas. Or just write a book. Or a study. Or just make your product better.

It’s up to you. Just saying.

P.s.: Ohh, and don’t forget to self-host your analytics and shit.

Cold steel skeletons with red glowing eyes; walking on piles of human bones then cracking a skull under their feet.

Yeah… well, it’s not gonna be like that. Sorry. Our end will be much more lame.

If we look around these days in the IT job market we see the chaos already unfolding. Layoffs after layoffs, open source is suffocating under AI slop and if you actually have a SaaS idea, right after launch — if you are lucky not earlier — another 20 copycats emerge from the generative hell.

The very same thing that actually brought us some kind of enhancement, giving us a chance to spend more time on human things instead of busting our ass on writing endless code or designing the n+1th UI layout, the very same thing — that is by the way still advertised as our lord and savior just for 20 bucks a month — is ending small and big businesses. But mostly human livelihoods.

“Claude can make that in five minutes” is the new “my niece can build me a website”, but we know that was never a working solution, except when that particular niece was a literal developer or designer.

Don’t get me wrong. I use AI, a lot. To make my workflow faster, more focused, more outcome oriented. I can work on the parts I’m the best with and enjoy the most, and delegate the shoveling to the machine.

And if we could take out greed from the equation this could solve a lot of IT work related issues, make us more efficient and produce much better products.

I know, I know, that’s not how capitalism works… I know. But not now.

Anyways, the big big but…

What nobody really expected is the backlash of over-automating recruitment. ATS systems were a thing for a long time, but mostly a wonky useless piece of software that was just sitting there and helped out recruiters to forward stuff to appropriate folders.

Today the reality is completely different, or if you insist “completely fucked”.

There is a weird warfare between job seekers and recruiters and on the front line we have machines from both sides.

Actually it’s the same how drone operations are key in modern war. But war is stupid, so… anyway, that’s not the topic today.

The recruiters create stupid long and fluffed job descriptions and their system filters every applicant for an exact match of all the keywords on that description. Everything.

On the other side people strike back and generate a custom CV for each application that contains the exact keywords triggering a good rating, so it might be forwarded to a human being. And then mass apply. To everything.

But the hunger games reached such a peak where you got hundreds of applicants for every open position. Technically spamming the shit out of the system. The ATS can’t do anything really because everybody seems to be a perfect fit. Dropping the bomb on the recruiters who obviously flip their desk and walk out the window.

By the time they would actually see an actually matching candidate — if that person for some magical reason gets endorsed by the automatic system — they are so burned out by the whole process they can’t care anymore.

So both sides are sitting there unhappy, while all the serial-appliers flood every channel. And yes now you can simply use your AI agent to harass recruiters via email, LinkedIn message or even phone calls.

What remains for those who just want to work and not participate in this madness?

Personal connections, ex colleagues, friends, the “I know a guy”.

But how when every week we read about at least one major layoff, and probably there are hundreds not making the news because not widely known companies.

People keeping a low profile, doing their job in silence, not even gonna talk to HR if not mandatory, and not going to raise the question if they could add more manpower to the project, because hey “you have unlimited ChatGPT credits, no need for more people” right?

And at the end, everybody just stands there with a broken system. Without professionals who could actually fix it.

The machine slows down. Stops. Stagnates. Dies.

That’s how it started, not with a skull crushing metal skeleton… we sold our own future to them for some extra profit.

Then years later everyone wants people back in the good old hamster wheel. Yes I know, a lot of people did not like it to be home, with the people they “love”, but let’s ignore that for a moment.

Some people absolutely require the face to face socialization in work or as I like to call it “to mingle”. You don’t really work, just wander around the office, talk to many people and then everybody thinks you are busy as hell. Been there, done that. We are a family after all no?

Ohh, it’s 11:00 am already, shall we talk about lunch?

And the same people who continued with their hobby and introduced the “can we hop on a quick call” or other classics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on these people, I just wanted to highlight the fact that there are many others who don’t require this type of umbilical cord with coworkers.

And this story is as old as we invented co-working. When people worked in private offices, then someone was always standing at the door asking for some hush hush.

When people used to work in cubicles some manager always appeared with a mug of coffee and said “that would be great…”

And in the era of open office you didn’t even need to be a participant, because you heard everything all the time, then God gave us a holy salvation, the noise canceling headphones. So one more physical movement when someone appeared at your desk and in the best case you did not get a heart attack. It really became the symbol of “office culture”.

So when people suddenly were cast back to their own cave some actually found a long lost - or never known - feeling of calmness and focus. Some of course felt unbearable loneliness and uselessness so started to add at least one sync call with each team.

And there are the people with kids at home, well, they did it to themselves init? Sorry not sorry.

But back to the main point. If you don’t count the work time disruptions and inefficiency, the lack of focus, you still have to address one more elephant in the room:

Yes, commuting. Ding ding ding.

And the average person commutes at least 1 hour a day but sometimes much longer. 1 damn hour. That makes your workday 9 hours long, your workweek 45 hours. At least.

You know what you can do with that 1 hour?

• eat a healthy meal and chill a bit
• read a few chapters of a book that entertains you
• receive a full body massage
• extensively pet your fur-babies
• listen to your favorite album with a cup of tea
• learn a new skill not even related to your work
• have some quality time with your significant other
• exercise, yoga, whatever makes you feel good

But we are forced to sit in a car, a bus, a train, a tin can and go to a place where we’re gonna do much less work because we already arrive tired and facing constant harassment.

Yes, yes, we are family, we are a team, we collaborate, lost in translation… yes. And no.

You just don’t respect your coworkers enough to let them do what is best for them - and overall for the whole work. Simple as that.

These days most of the job ads are about hybrid work where they generously let you work from home on Fridays, or they just say it’s remote but you need to stay in the city - as if you were under investigation. Ridiculous.

If you deliver why does it matter where you are doing it from? And it matters to whom? To the people who don’t deliver anything just marching around imitating work?

Oh, but what about blockers? We can’t allow that!

Well then, maybe start using the gray matter a bit and maybe the blocker is not even a blocker, you were just looking for an excuse. No need to answer. I let everyone think this through inside. Just put “being offended” aside a bit and think about it.

You are welcome.

Which is pretty accurate to be honest. Sometimes. Mostly. Whatever. Not the point here now.

So what is with this blog like thing here? In 2026? Writing manually like animals? Not even speech to text, no AI? What’s next? Pen and paper?

Well. Don’t get me wrong. I like technology, I grew up with the internet, I’ve seen it from the “magical thing” phase to the current “commodity” situation where we value fast connection more than clean water or healthy food.

I think it’s time - at least for me; you can do whatever you want - to stop a bit, slow down and check on what is going on, because the movie Idiocracy is not funny anymore but terrifying.

As one of my wise friends said:

“I have too many people’s thoughts in my head.”

We are consuming and consuming and when we want to create we take the shortest route. But first let me check my apps to avoid FOMO. Let me fill up my head with content from strangers so I don’t feel alone. And fill it up so much that my own thoughts don’t fit anymore, but who needs their own thoughts anymore.

And I’m gonna go with proper “OK, boomer” vibes, but:

Why bother reading when there are audio books, why bother to write when we have free ChatGPT, why bother to learn to draw or photograph when Gemini can do anything I want? These are hard to challenge these days, and I have no right to judge anyone but myself.

So this is my way to work on myself. To write. In my way, without constraints and with grammatical errors. Not particularly to anyone, but just to form my own thoughts and get them out from my head. To free up space for new and fresh thoughts. Dump my brain.

“Why here and not on any famous social media platform? You make Elon and Mark sad.”

Because I don’t want to contribute to the noise and I don’t want to feed the algorithm and mostly because I don’t want to know what others think about what I write. Anyone can think anything, freely, be my guest. But I’m not here to start a conversation or an argument. If you think differently, good for you, start your own blog and write it down, have fun.

Kind regards,

K