AI, software, tech, and people. Not in that order. By X

(As most of my other recent posts, this one has been written with AI assistance.

This is the third—and likely final—post in a series I’ve been writing over the past two and a half years on using AI for software development.

(This blog post, as with most of my recent ones, is written with AI assistance and augmentation.

If you have been following my journey for a while, you’re probably aware of my pragmatic approach to AI capabilities and my skepticism towards the surrounding hype.

This blog post is a detailed summary of my recent keynote at ACM RecSys 2025 in Prague.

It has been quite a while since I last shared a reading list on this blog.

A year of reasoning, agents, and compressed innovation cycles If 2024 was the year of the chatbot, 2025 has been the year AI started to think—or at least, the year we started debating what “thinking” really means.

(This blog post, as most of my recent ones, is written with AI assistance and augmentation.

Eighteen months ago, I wrote a post on how Large Language Models would change software development, sharing my early experiences with the technology.

We seem to be living through a pivotal moment, often dubbed the “Age of AI”.