Hello, world (very original, I know)

The first program most of us write prints “Hello, world”, so it felt right for the first post here too. Starting has never been my strong point, so I’ll take the easy option.

I’ve done this before

In 2019, together with Javier Navamuel and Juan Alfau, I started Sustainable Knowledge, a site where we wrote about sustainability, technology and personal growth. My first article there was a long introduction: where I grew up, how I got into computers and why I wanted to write. I won’t repeat it. Most of it still holds, even if it makes me smile a bit now.

The short version: I’m Miguel, from Asturias, living in Salzburg. I build AI prototypes and help teams find out where the technology is actually useful. The homepage has the rest.

Why write again

Something I wrote back then still holds: writing forces you to think. When I only read or talk about an idea, I stay on the surface. Writing it down makes me decide what I actually believe.

There’s a second reason now: I want a record. I enjoy making predictions about technology, and I enjoy going back later to see how wrong they were. That’s why I built the Trends page, which tracks the ideas I follow and when I first noticed them. This blog is where the reasoning goes, with a date attached.

What I’ll write about

Mostly AI. It’s changing things faster than I can process, and writing is my excuse to stop and think about what that means for software, for work and for the people around me.

A recent example. My father had to deal with Spanish online bureaucracy, which is as painful as it sounds. I helped him set up Codex with Computer Use, and with some preparation and good prompts he got through it and saved hours. What impressed me most was simpler: he just asked it to find things on his computer, a document in a forgotten folder or a detail inside a file, and it found them in seconds instead of ten minutes of clicking around. I was really happy to help him with it. And today he still needed someone like me to set it up. Once that stops being necessary, a lot more people will get this kind of help.

Besides AI, expect:

• Tools I use and how they fit into my work.
• Development and technology, with opinions I’m happy to be wrong about.
• Projects I’m building, listed on Projects.
• People and ideas that shaped how I think. Some are on People, and the lines I keep coming back to are in Quotes.

Two predictions to start

Intelligence becomes a utility. Like electricity: cheap, everywhere, and something we stop thinking about. A lot of people following AI expect this, but it belongs on the record.

By the end of 2028, the valuable part of most jobs will be judgement, not execution. AI will handle most of the repetitive work. What’s left for us is deciding what matters, holding the context, breaking problems down and delegating the pieces. In other words, thinking like an engineer, whatever your job title says.

So, hello. I’ll come back to both at the end of 2028 and see how accurate I was.

And if you want to follow along, there’s an RSS feed. Some old things are worth keeping.