New year, some reflections on the past year, reading and lot of writing, among the other things learnt and watched from the week of 28th December 2025 to 3rd January 2026

Tech things created, learnt, read and watched in the week of 4th to 10th January 2026.

Week #77

Reading, Watching and Standing on a intersection on thinking about what’s next as a developer, among the other things done in the week from 18th to 24th January 2026

Vibe Coding in serious mode, reading and understanding how to work with AI, among the other things watched, and learnt from the week of 25th to 31st January 2026

• what a flashback, everything makes sense.
• Programming is not mechanical
• yet people tried hard to make solve for it as it was mechanical
• COBOL made syntax readable. CASE tools eliminated typing. Visual tools eliminated syntax. AI can now generate entire functions from descriptions
• Each advancement addressed a real friction point. Yet the fundamental challenge persists because it’s not mechanical. It’s intellectual. Software development is thinking made tangible
• Just sheer facts those two. We need to find a way around using AI not away from it.

Techstructive Weekly #77

This is cool, i’ve read a lot of these and working at docsumo, makes me want to read about them more.

This is interesting and it comes at the right time

facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever

It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway.

What is the social solution, then? Innovation can’t be taken back after all. I believe we should vote for governments that recognize what is happening, and are willing to support those who will remain jobless. And, the more people get fired, the more political pressure there will be to vote for those who will guarantee a certain degree of protection. But I also look forward to the good AI could bring: new progress in science, that could help lower the suffering of the human condition, which is not always happy.

Techstructive Weekly #76