As any male Swiss citizen, I’m required to complete military service, starting with eighteen weeks of basic training, known as “recruit school” (Rekrutenschule, or RS). Those eighteen weeks split into general basic training and training specific to the function you’re assigned. I was assigned to become a radar soldier. A radar soldier’s job is to monitor the airspace for potential threats and, if necessary, give the order for the cannons to take that threat down. ...
Calling something “the good old days” as someone who has barely made it out of his teens is a bit weird, but here I am doing it anyway. After stumbling over yet another AI video, I started feeling a bit sick. Shoutout to ThePrimeagen at this point, his content is great and partially the reason I’m writing this post in the first place. ...
In August 2025, I started a new position as a junior DevOps engineer. This was my first “real” job after completing my apprenticeship. Having specialized in platform engineering, I had only briefly touched on software engineering. I learned the basics of object-oriented programming and could write simple hello world applications, but that was about it. I knew my new position would primarily involve writing code, which was largely new territory for me. So how does AI come into play here? ...