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date: "2026-03-13T00:00:00+01:00"
description: "Why I'm starting this blog, and what I want from it."
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# First Post

So it begins. It's Friday the 13th and I'm starting to blog.

## Good times

Last year Anthropic [released](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4/) Claude Code. And things took off.
Software development got much faster. It feels like it happened overnight.

In good hands, coding agents are really productive. In ways I couldn't have imagined a year ago.
AI engineering is here, and it's going to stay. And I'm here to embrace it.

Do I deliver faster? No. Am I more productive? No, not yet.
But I iterate and explore new ideas much quicker. I learn faster.

Working together with AI on software feels great. I don't need to spend hours on naming things[^two_hard_things].
I don't need to endlessly browse Google, StackOverflow, or docs (I can and still do though).
I can focus on the part of the development process I like the most:
staring at the code, talking about it with someone, and being productive.

I'm having a good time.

## The problem

It's not for free.

I don't need to challenge myself that often.
And since everything is fast now, I can do many things in parallel.
I can literally work on three projects while keeping an eye on the Austrian school of AI[^austrians] on X.

My attention span is getting out of control. I tend to take shortcuts.
I don't need to go as deep into technical problems anymore[^ai_impacts].

I want to fix that. I want to do better. Writing could help me.
It could also help me explain complex things more clearly, both to people and to AI.

## How

I plan to write here by hand. Like a caveman. I will use AI for spell checks, but that's it.

I've spent a couple of nights building my custom [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) theme,
setting up a GitHub Actions pipeline, and tweaking this page to have a proper (Atom) feed and be accessible to AIs.

I'm already invested. And I do have a couple of things I want to write about.

[^two_hard_things]: Martin Fowler: [Two Hard Things](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html).
[^ai_impacts]: Judy H. Shen & Alex Tamkin: [How AI Impacts Skill Formation](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20245v2/).
[^austrians]: Austrian school of AI: [Armin](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/), [Peter](https://steipete.me/), and [Mario](https://mariozechner.at/).