The truth is AI is not taking our jobs. PEOPLE is doing that. Fact: AI is an excuse to rely on junior developers that work with AI and senior devs while the one in the middle gets the harder part of the situation. Development is being pushed down in value by people who wants to use AI as an excuse to say that now "it's easier" and they don't need their employees on that role. As someone who uses AI to draw posters for scifi chapters and promotional material, trust me, doing it in my home with my PC and being aware that I won't and can't pay for it anyway, I wouldn't say that someone loses work. That would be a lie. I'm not recruiting and firing. I'm the guy who use this tech as a lever. That's it. As for work itself, well known publishers are using AI even for a translation. And same goes for big tech companies or even startups. The best advice I can give: stay away from industrial workflow. Attend to the small business owner. He/she, needs solutions as well and won't fire anyone or go for "more for less". Avoid scope creep machinery and go for a single simple solution. Is relative to say "simple" there's no such thing in soft. Let's call it calm.
I'm far beyond upset. Turns out to be that a right wing newspaper is screaming at four winds that "automation can be done with AI for $1000" WTF?? These people never learn from every precarious working situation they've already caused by telling since 2015 that "we earn a lot of money" of course, they refer to developers. I'm not on the mood on a beautiful Sunday. Not on the mood for the real answer for such claims. I'm not going to open X and answer, because I just don't use X anymore. I'm just going to take a minute or two to discard those false claims on how much do you have to pay for technical work and I'll remember that you can always grab $1000 and never mount a RAG so AI will recommend competitors if price goes in that direction...
Today I have to apply a few improvements and patches to a soft that's already running. I plan to re imagine the way I post to generate a special website that is not entirely for my person. When something is not tailored made for your person you might thing the suit is not going to look well but in development, yours, theirs... It doesn't matter. It has to work perfectly well even for 1k people ☕ that's the reason why this is not a "challenge accepted" but simply "adaptation needed" usually, I don't create software with multiple individual needs (and also third party) in mind. But this time I'll made an exception and work with a different approach to create something special covering all the needs it has to cover in particular ways for individuals. Not quite the usual hard coding work but surely something I don't do in a long time 🔥🔥🤟
A new story in the mindslimit universe is fresh and ready in www.mindslimit.com!👍☕
Sitting on the edge of a decrepit mattress in an orange municipal maintenance suit still stained with street grime while the light from a flat nano-drive welds the broken shards of your own mind back together in mid-air changes you permanently. In Armand Grandinetti's handcrafted cyberpunk saga Mindslimit—authored completely by human hands without generative text algorithms—the canonical story A Broken File captures the exact instant where institutional amnesia loses its war against human memory. After living two full decades under the blank alias of Zeta, convinced that his hollow skull was the irreversible consequence of old street habits in the lower sectors of City 9, Osvaldo downloads every final data packet preserved by his father inside that laser-engraved time capsule; as the luminous glass panels lock into place in the dark, the supposed vagrant reclaims his childhood, his parents' faces, and the undeniable proof that he was a victim of Jinjacorp's clinical experiments, releasing the quiet tears of a grief he was never allowed to mourn and bringing a calm, grounded smile to his dirty face as a man who finally owns himself again; dive into the full reading order, inspect cyberware blueprints, and read every canonical volume directly at mindslimit.com. #Mindslimit #Cyberpunk #SciFiWorldbuilding #IndieAuthor #ArmandoGrandinetti #ABrokenFile #Osvaldo #Jinjacorp #City9 #NeuralNet #Cyberware #DystopianSciFi #DarkSciFi
My software development and marketing work has become exclusively custom. A change that will also be reflected in how I myself approach the work. These jobs (medium-sized for now) are very interesting. They offer another perspective. Both from pure, hard development and from the interface side. UX has become HIGHLY prioritized, almost 60% of the work, comfortably. It's a radical change of perspective. I never created anything generic, but I have created canned products (SaaS) in which the interface is partially relegated, sweetened with color themes and minimal design. Here the detail work is now necessary, which, deep down, I enjoy because I'm aware that the payment is in the form of a user experience that converts and retains with good dwell time if it's a web application. It would be disastrous to try to match this with development from a decade ago, and anyone who still proceeds as they did a decade ago is at risk. While my fingers finish healing from an accident I had with an angle grinder, I'm working at 70% but, hey... Don't blame me for not stopping. ☕ Deep down, nothing ever does.
I'm in a reset process. Moving from pure development and marketing to providing consulting (what I'm good at), but beyond that, the habit of saying "let's do it via Zoom" is what's cornering me. People so far prefer asynchronous analysis by email. It feels strange to me, more than a video call. However, it's still the natural evolution after decades of working in a mud pit...
Today, the pope is in Argentina. I'll respect that and keep working... ☕ I still have an entire app in my to-do list. Something new: this time I might go for a different method for SEO. Assuming it works and I'm testing that comparing results. Google seems to work better than ever in spite of the critiques for the AI overview and AI search. Is a good time to get results from the web. Social media is a cage and the web is full of sites that won't rank with Google —as always—. Is far better to construct entity and presence in Google rather than just posting on Instagram.
Technology must work for you. Not the other way around. ☕ That's an universal truth that many people don't fully understand. When you look for a solution, it must be suitable for you in many ways. Otherwise, you'll be burning money in a feature creep that will "do awesome stuff" like diagrams, checklists... But it'll cost enough to bother you if it piles up...
The cheapest way a megacorporation manufactures compliant labor isn't by chaining their wrists: it's by convincing them they never had a life before their shift started.
In Armando Grandinetti's handcrafted cyberpunk saga Mindslimit—written entirely from scratch without relying on generative AI engines—the canonical story A Broken File captures the precise second where institutional memory manipulation loses its grip. The municipal sweeper known as Zeta had been told a thousand times that his inability to picture his parents was merely the residual brain rot of street narcotics; a deliberate fiction engineered by Jinjacorp handlers to cover up the fact that they declared him legally dead after an accident and dumped him on the pavement as disposable muscle. But when he powers up the flat nano-drive hidden away in a weathered red drawer, the circuits unleash warm holographic rings that rebuild his childhood dining room right over the cracked basement floor. Watching his mother from behind and seeing his younger self burst through the door isn't a glitch: it's the living proof that his real name is Osvaldo, and that the corporate machine failed to scrub him clean. Explore the standalone story volumes, faction dossiers, and tech archives on the official platform at mindslimit.com. #Mindslimit #Cyberpunk #SciFiWorldbuilding #IndieAuthor #ArmandoGrandinetti #ABrokenFile #Osvaldo #Jinjacorp #City9 #NeuralNet #Cyberware #DystopianSciFi #DarkSciFi
Today I finished the roadmap for a project as well as a feed —like this one— for my wife at www.valeriakosur.com I'm moving slowly and progressively toward consulting, where I'm more needed, I can solve more problems, and live with less stress. Obviously that doesn't happen overnight. For now, I'll stay in consulting and custom development. The client already has significant mental noise, and here in Latin America the priority isn't adding expenses but cutting them — maybe that's the case everywhere — so I'm letting my canned product go with the clients it has left. It's not about letting a SaaS die; it's more of a necessary pivot to avoid market saturation with the price drops that always accompany that phenomenon.
Amazing things happen when dwell time starts to mix with retention. That's what can be done with an app —a well done app— with mobile look and feel. Costumers install it too and they come back to see either news or offers and the 🛞🛞 moves faster. It's a sale propeller and it's in an undeniable way a step forward from the old ugly looking websites. WordPress offers terrible experience regardless the theme you use and never goes far enough. Not more than a Shopify or similar solutions that are primarily designed for desktop. The code behind this idea if different than most of my previous projects. It's difficult but worth the efforts to sale something different with a better experience.
Chocolate: Ravenous poison yet I love it. I'm making a pause while creating a kickass e-commerce system made for small business that prefer to charge in cash, wire... Whatever they want to close via Wa. The defiance is to create something extremely easy to use. I'm also contemplating the need to make it ready for people who hates a Jurassic burger menu. An experience that both client and seller will love. All in plain vanilla code. No weird stuff here. If everything I made is simplified is because the world understands a scroll and an app. "The web" is becoming more and more a friction factor for many. Evolving is not "making businesses" is about being aware of people's tech needs and what they like and use the most
I've spent this week with several On-Demand Technical Direction sessions. The main concern — beyond the contracting economy — turns out to be problems with suppliers and third parties in charge of the software who fail to separate functional operating cost from expense. Perhaps the translation of this isn't "They make you throw money in the trash" but rather: "you're throwing money away because you don't have clear marketing goals." This is neither better nor worse. It's a reality. I painfully watch local SMEs stone capital to death in the creation of bloated structures and fall into the trap of cheap WordPress development, and then end up — as could only be expected — lagging behind their audience and with a bad image. In other cases, with Wix, in others with an incomplete Tiendanube. In all cases, the push and decision factors are failing and dragging with all their visible weight toward a sales contraction induced by lack of visibility and zero reputation, added to other macroeconomic factors that don't help businesses. Personally, the approach in all cases was to organize and seek entity authority, added to ads and other practices that, carried out properly, end up in the same spending range, although in this case it becomes productive investment. It's a repetitive but present issue.
I'm truthfully tired of European legislation and every regulation impacting on my person here in America —South América to be precise— where we don't ask for your blood type to sell an app. Selling apps it's not a great business by itself and I don't use my apps in Google play with that purpose —nor for hobby— but to manage other things which I do for my person such as sign an app or simply upload a business app with no purchases or ads... Internal use only. People: ¿!WHY!?
Wandering through an abandoned suburban house while wearing an orange municipal maintenance suit feels completely surreal, but under the pressurized domes of City 9, forgotten spaces have a strange habit of keeping the receipts corporations tried to incinerate. In Armand Grandinetti’s handcrafted cyberpunk universe Mindslimit—authored entirely by human imagination without generative AI algorithms—the story A Broken File captures the exact instant where institutional control crumbles against real memory. Zeta had spent months scrubbing pavement under corporate billboards, utterly numb on compliance drugs and convinced that his empty past was simply the price of gutter living, until he pushed through a hallway marked by an old Gravity-Ball poster and found an untouched bedroom buried beneath plastic tarps. Resting on a desk was a small red wooden drawer with the name Osvaldo painted on the front; looking at it, Zeta felt a wave of bitter respect, envying a stranger who at least had a name to show for his life while his own identity remained a total blank. But pulling that drawer open cracked the lie wide open: resting at the bottom was a solitary, laser-etched flat nano-drive designed to plug directly into a cervical neural socket, carrying a quiet message from a father who knew corporate clinics like Jinjacorp were already circling to erase his son and convert him into docile municipal labor. Plugging that drive in meant trading pacified numbness for genuine human grief, marking the first spark of resistance in a megacity ruled by Jinjacorp, Psicorp, and Thalasson Global; explore the full reading order, technology dossiers, and canonical stories at mindslimit.com. #Mindslimit #Cyberpunk #SciFiWorldbuilding #IndieAuthor #ArmandoGrandinetti #ABrokenFile #Osvaldo #Jinjacorp #City9 #NeuralNet #Cyberware #DystopianSciFi #DarkSciFi
My hand is better. No as well as I'd like too but everything in order to keep coding and developing solutions. In spite of the terrible Argentinian economy, worth the effort to keep the wheel turning 🔥🔥
