I discovered programming at nine with Visual Basic. The internet was booming, and I built my first web pages in FrontPage, later Dreamweaver with PHP/MySQL, and explored design in Photoshop, Flash, and Fireworks. In high school I drifted toward design—programming wasn’t cool—until the iPhone made tech exciting again.

The web evolved fast: Flash faded, HTML5 rose, and web apps became powerful. Encarta gave way to Wikipedia. Google Docs displaced Microsoft Word. Stack Overflow became the go‑to Q&A for developers. Any answer was a Google search away. The Web Browser replaced the Desktop: everything was in the cloud.

In 2012 I doubled down on JavaScript and web technologies, and by 2015 I was freelancing, progressively specializing in frontend and UI. Mobile apps influenced how we build UI. JavaScript and Web Technologies were everywhere: from web to mobile and desktop.

Then AI crept in, and leapt. Predictive systems reshaped marketing and advertising. Copilot changed how developers write; ChatGPT turned browsing into conversation: A tailored answer is a prompt away. And more recently Model Context Protocol allowed LLMs to interface with anything.

AI changed what we build and how we build it—for users and developers. Line‑by‑line completion already feels boomer; now everyone talks about Windsurf, Cursor, and vibe‑coding—prompting, iterating, and validating instead of hand‑coding everything.

It’s wild how much can shift in a decade. Maybe the web gives way to AI interfaces; either way, we're entering another era, and ten years from now will be unrecognizable again.

This blog won't be focused on AI, I just want to start this post by capturing my thoughts at the moment I write this first post, as a reference point for the future.

Still, AI will shape what I build and how I build it.