·AI Shift
A Letter to Juniors
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.
Featured Column
The Exponential Curve
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.
Tihomir Opačić · March 20, 2026 · 12 min read
Recent Essays
·AI Shift
Personally Productive, Organizationally Stuck
I automated 90 percent of my cognitive load with AI. The brain fog lifted. Then I tried to bring my team along — and hit a wall most leaders don't see coming.
·Deep Dive
My AI Home Base: How Twelve Apps Converged to One
Every app had its purpose. Every app created friction. Then twelve tools collapsed into one — because I finally understood what I was actually looking for: home.
Columns & Deep Dives
AI ShiftFeb 20, 2026
Affinity, Style, Taste: The Human Edge in the Age of AI Agents
When everyone has godlike power to create, what separates the extraordinary from the mediocre? Not the tools. Not the speed. Whether you know what good looks like.
AI ShiftFeb 11, 2026
Stop Presenting. Start Building.
Enterprise AI pilots fail 95 percent of the time. Not because the technology doesn't work — because nobody showed teams what 'ready' looks like.
AI ShiftFeb 4, 2026
Software Development Is Dead. Long Live Software Development.
I haven't written a single line of code in six months. The thing we called software development is over — and what's replacing it is something fundamentally different.
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