Tihomir Opačić · June 24, 2026 · 6 min read
When AI solves your productivity problem, it hands you a better one: judgment becomes the whole game, and judgment is the one thing you can't run five of at once. On the hidden tax of speed, the highway as a thinking machine, and why the slow way produces decisions that hold.
A month ago, in Mythos, I promised to put a Mac mini in Belgrade and run an always-on AI assistant on it. I named him Nikola Tesla. This is the report — and the system is already getting more useful by itself.
Language is a serialization format, not the computation itself. Both cognitive science and frontier AI are converging on the same insight — and it changes what vocabulary, structural thinking, and taste actually do inside your head.
Belgrade to Halkidiki is a ten-hour drive. A Mythos beer at the beach is worth every minute. But this article isn't about the beer — it's about the other Mythos, and why it changes everything.
I've been giving the same AI talk since 2023. Here's what changed — and what didn't.
I spent a year training a junior developer. He left the week he became useful. The education system failed him—and I paid for it. Fifteen years later, executives across every industry are paying the same price, except now it's AI.
A son spent 50 years collecting his dead father's letters so he could bring him back with AI. The math that made it possible has been hiding in plain sight since 1939.
This is the hardest time in the history of software development to land your first job. But if you love building things, keep going. The instruments are changing. The music doesn't have to.
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