Greetings to all who come across this site and welcome! It is July 2025 and I just updated the site with frivolous UI decorations with Three.js as I haven't touched this site in a while and wanted to give it some love.

For the zero dedicated readers of this blog, and especially for the attentive ones, you might have noticed that I deleted the only two posts that existed prior to this one. To be frank, I hated the posts and would cringe at every sentence, with the utter lack of authenticity and faux-LinkedIn writing style. It didn't portray how I really feel about or relate to technology, particularly within the realm of software development.

So how do I really feel about that AI crap I was writing about earlier? Honestly, I don't know. At work I use Copilot more and more now, I'm dabbling in VIBE CODING BRO whenever I see some stupid social media post about it, and I'm trying to stay on top of models and tools that would be really helpful for developers when it comes to dev environments and the overall DevEx. It's an explosive time for software tooling and it's going to be extremely beneficial in the next few years to stay on top of things, and to learn and pioneer different workflows, configurations, setups, yadda yadda.

But that's just work for a slice of so-called knowledge workers. What about everything else? Is human civilization itself going to be irrevocably transformed because Dario Amodei said so? So the white collar jobs are going away but somehow we'll have figured out cancer or poverty is eliminated just because Sam Altman said so? Or what if the jobs don't go away but MechaH*tler decides to spark a race war because someone (we all know who it would be, really) decides to slip in a malicious system prompt update?

I think the more stark reality is that I don't know and neither do these CEOs. Asking these tech guys (who are rich out of their minds and in the most disturbing social and economic bubble to ever exist in North America) to make essentially geopolitical and sociological predictions for the entirety of humanity is like asking international relations professors how Iranian ballistic missiles work. These companies' continued existence relies on the myth of AI truly becoming this generalized intelligence with almost totally arbitrary measures of cognition, biased not only by humans but the specific conditions and ideologies that rule Silicon Valley.

I'll never get too political on this site but AI is increasingly political at every level. AI as the political will drive how corporate cost cutting measures and increasingly cutthroat practices get normalized and the American middle class is split between a mass of deskilled and demobilized workers or business owners and the minority that will benefit from the bounties of AI investment and growth. AI as the political will justify a monsoon of surveillance tools and analysis at levels previously unreachable, combining both federal capabilities and the digital panopticon Silicon Valley has been building for decades. AI as the political will (try to) reintroduce the attitude of "what's good for GM (in this case Silicon Valley) is good for America!" even as power plants and energy are redirected towards data centers away from cities and towns, whose residents a mogul from his SF penthouse sees as nothing more than obstacles to overcome.

The most egregious aspect of the current AI drive is the demand for more and more energy - as I mentioned it's already ruining numerous communities within the US. But OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, etc., will reach a limit and be forced to satiate this horrendous demand by going abroad, a plan that's already in-progress. It will forever tie Silicon Valley to outright imperialist ambitions and conquest, and should send chills down the spine of any decent human being. If you think techbros have treated American citizens poorly, I'm afraid that we haven't seen nothing yet. And I'm not even going to get into the whole militarization of Silicon Valley thing that's going on right now - *cough* Detachment 201 *cough*. There's just too much to say. Maybe I'll cover specific topics in future posts.

So all in all, I'm bullish on AI for my career and software engineering, even as I know AI will be the justification for its eventual demise. To paraphrase the Silicon Valley android/mogul Sam Altman, the software industry might explode because of all this AI stuff but at least there will have been some pretty good tooling we built. But on everything else? Put me in a grizzly bear costume and get me off of this wild ride. It feels like so many tech workers are trying to position themselves such that they have a chair for themselves when the music stops. But those chairs will not be plentiful, and the amount of total disgrace and dishonor you have to go through to obtain one might not be worth it.

It's not all bad, though. The digital infrastructure that's needed to propel the 21st century along is far from a finished project and there's a lot more to do. I just hope that I can contribute what I can in the next few decades and help make this stuff better. Here's hoping!