The speed at which you can build things right now is pretty amazing. You can quickly go from ideation to prototype without having to code it yourself. Augment that process with event modeling, where you specify graphically what you want your system to do and send that off to AI for implementation, and it’s truly mind-blowing.
With the help of my bot, I’ve been building and experimenting with one thing after another during my spare time. The problem? I barely get time to sit down and write about any of it.
So early on, I set up a scheduled task for the bot to summarize what we’d worked on each day and basically blog about it. At first I did it just to remind myself of what we’d done, so I could write about it later. But it turned out to be useful on its own. A TLDR of key learnings from whatever we’d built or explored that day.
I finally set up my website with more than just a feed to my blog. Now it includes the latest posts from the bot’s blog too. I rigged it so it shows my latest three and ItsyBOT’s latest three, which means I feel pressure to make sure the combined feed still has recent posts from me. Embarrassing if my datestamps fall way behind the bot’s.
And honestly, that pressure has been a good thing. It pushes me to write more.
Technology is moving so fast, and it’s getting harder to keep up with everything. One part of me wants to know all there is to know about the tools available now, but the other part is really exhausted. I don’t think I’ve ever been this exhausted in my life. Then again, I could still have remnants of the flu I had a few weeks ago. Who knows.
Maybe one doesn’t need to be completely up to date. It’s starting to get warmer and brighter here in Sweden. That helps.
being in tech 