Cover image for this post is generated by Mistral AI / Le Chat. It’s an awesome image: it depicts two cute kittens wearing cute clothes with their cute little faces.

AI has gone a long way since its first awkward attempts to depict hands and fingers in the proper amount. Images are now almost perfect! They use someone else’s style and ideas with no explicit permission, but they’re very good.

AI can help and refine an article or an email. Whenever I want my text to sounds professional (or soulless) - I use AI. It’s great at spotting typos and spitting out a text with no personality.

AI is a great listener! It’ll reflect your thoughts back onto you and share a generic advice (that you should always double check). I’m pretty sure AI agents can replace Google search bar. You place your problem there and hope someone else ran into that before: be it “How to patch KDE for FreeBSD” or “Why didn’t she call me back”.

If you’re lucky you’ll find an answer eventually!

AI can sometimes guess what I’m going to type. In most cases it’ll annoy the hell out of me with its suggestions, but sometimes it might guess right. I still rely on autocomplete more than on Copilot. But it helps greatly when I need to generate test cases! It’s great at coming up with domain specific lorem ipsums! Not the images url though, unfortunately - those are usually returning 404.

With that said I’m so tired of hearing how we’re on the verge of general AI. I’m grateful to Deepseek for shaking the industry and making AI cheaper, but let’s stop pretending that we believe the lies told to investors.

I tried Lovable and it’s a fun toy to play with, but it can’t really replace neither developer, nor designer: it is great at creating small crude prototypes for inspiration. The tool itself is of a great quality: apart from AI hiccups I didn’t run into any issues. Works amazingly well, doesn’t do what it promises though.

But hey, I wanted to believe! Just like millions of other people I bought the lie that I can make my life easier and offload boring, repetitive or time consuming tasks onto AI.

How could I not? I have barely 30 minutes a day to work on my side project (Hounty still has an heartbeat, but it’s not yet out of the woods) and AI promised production ready solutions in minutes!

In retrospect we are still struggling to educate humans: beautiful machines that shouldn’t, but can be powered by leftovers. Very cost efficient and capable!

Empathetic, loving, caring, curious, goofy and diverse we are forced to be like everyone else with the goal of achieving general intelligence as well I would assume.

We study, we learn various crafts so that we could ensure a good enough life for ourselves and our families. Some of us are forced into insane debts for said education, some are more lucky and invest only tremendous amount of time. All to be able to make the ends meet eventually.

Software engineering used to guarantee that but now AI evangelists are screaming left and right that developers are being replaced by AI and thus creating even more uncertainty and anxiety for those who had hoped that they found an ethical and legal way of having a good life by typing code on their computers.

I can’t seem to replace my amazing team with AI: there’s no AI yet that would go to a meeting, gather requirements, calm stakeholders down and come back to building a new feature or debugging and I’m working in an industry where tech is a backbone, but not the whole business.

There’s no AI that would attend user interviews and find flaws in the design or come up with experiments that could test out a hypothesis before they go and make a design in Figma.

There’s no AI that would architect a sustainable solution, heck it struggles to organise files in a folder properly.

And those companies letting go of people just to force those remaining to work more to sustain their AI bluff should be ashamed.

But then again, how can we talk about artificial general intelligence if we’re still stuck in mindless wars and petty political squabbles? If we would be smart enough to come up with AGI (fuelled by quantum computing perhaps), we’d be way over caveman mentality, wouldn’t we be?

And if we ever want to get there - to a place where tech makes our lives easier and more enjoyable - we absolutely cannot give up on supporting new generation of developers and scientists. They are the ones who can do this, not us. The best we can do is to lay out the foundation. Honest, transparent foundation of the future tech: fake it till we make it doesn’t really work in this case.

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