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? ...