To be clear, none of the content, but the site engine itself is all AI built. It is a long and somewhat sad story. By the end, I hope you'll forgive me.

I was a scientist with a Ph.D. in Instrumentation Physics. I ended up in software development, learning on my own through open source projects like Mojolicious. I specialized in low level protocols and async patterns, coding in Perl, PHP, Python, Node, Java and more. Recently I began doing Kubernetes.

Then in spring of 2026, AI programming changed. My coworkers were turning around tasks quickly using agents. One agent would build it, another would test it, another would review the changes. My eyes opened wide. Software development is testable, and coding would never be the same again.

AI doesn't think, it synthesizes text. But software is different: you ask for something concrete and testable. For a set of inputs it needs to have these outputs. AI can do incredible things when the result is precise, not open ended. It knows about all the details in a codebase, though it may need a little prod from a knowledgeable developer.