AI on Andre's blog

The AI Hangover: Why Deterministic Scaffolding Beats Smart Models

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For the last two years, the AI revolution has been the loudest guest at every corporate dinner party. Tech giants and startups alike commanded stratospheric valuations, and boardrooms scrambled to integrate large language models before the competition did.

Today, the check has arrived, and the mood has sobered. Companies are quietly rolling back AI integrations that bleed cash and deliver little return on investment. Flagship models burn through capital when left unsupervised, and high-profile blunders—like an AI management layer recently deleting a major client’s cloud account—have thoroughly spooked the market.

The Epic Saga of Programming: From Punching Holes to Chatting with Bots

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts and casual scrollers. Ever wondered how we went from fiddling with wires on room-sized machines to telling a computer “make me a cat video generator” and watching it happen? This post is a breezy skip through the history of programming—evolution on fast-forward, with more bugs (the code kind) than the creepy-crawly kind. I’ll keep it light and skip the jargon; by the end you might even chuckle at us all turning into lazy overlords of silicon.

AI Accordion

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At my day job, I decided to rewrite an internal website using AI coding tools. We have a simple web application that allows users to perform certain actions, but it doesn’t support automatic interface updates. As a result, users have to refresh the website often to see the current status of processing.

This is not very convenient, but it’s not a huge problem, so it would be a waste of time to rewrite the application from scratch manually, as the benefits would be quite small. However, I had the idea that this would be a very easy task for one of the modern AI tools like Cursor, which is pretty good at building standard applications. Long story short, in a couple of days, I had a working, fully-fledged website that did everything needed, looked way better than before, and was fully reactive, reflecting all changes in real time.