Putting it shortly: everything has changed since I last posted here. EVERYTHING.

This blog post is my retrospective on the last 18 months. Personal. Self-healing. Unblocking.

Moved back to Poland

After 6 years of traveling and working remotely, my wife and I decided to come back to Poland. When we left, there was no specific goal. We just wanted to explore and live this life (and we did to the fuuuuuullest and we still are!). Somewhere in the back of our heads there was this idea of finding a better place. An ideal place to settle down. But as it turned out, no place is perfect. Even living in the paradise of Indonesia for 15 months had its flaws

However, the best side effect (or maybe the main effect) of living in several different countries is the new perspective. Being back in Poland now (which is an amazing country) hits completely different than it was those ~7 years ago. I appreciate it 100000 times more. I am constantly amazed by little things that I previously took for granted or didn’t even notice. This gives me a unique perspective on living here and I really appreciate that.

Longer trips and workations will resume, but for now I am proudly calling myself a self-retired digital nomad

Switched to Mac

In mid-2025, I decided to switch to a Mac. I’ve always been a .NET person, but my new job eliminated working with legacy desktop stuff, so I could make the move. I bought a 16-inch MacBook M4 Pro with 48GBs of RAM and 512 GBs of disk space. I was a little worried about the disk space, but after ~1 year it’s just enough for me. Just checked and I still have 260GBs of free space (did the cleanup a few days ago though, before that it was around 180 GBs free). My daily toolbox includes Rider, VS Code, .net&npm, Claude Code, 6-10 docker containers and a few smaller local LLMs running in LM Studio.

I wouldn’t believe saying this 2 years ago, but switching to Mac was the best decision ever. There’s even nothing to write about here. It’s just amazing and I can finally work 8-10 hours without charging it – just in time when I retired from full-time nomading

Started working for a fully remote SaaS company

I also started working for an Australian, fully remote SaaS company. We are building a platform for healthcare professionals, mostly from Australia, US and the UK. The teams are distributed all over the world, but we are not a corporation (there’s probably around 90 of us currently, including ~40 engineers).

It’s been challenging for me to move from a software house to working on an actual SaaS product, which comes with more responsibility, but also more possibilities and influence on the product.

AI… AI everywhere

I didn’t want to start with this point, but this is HUGE. When writing my last article here, in December 2024, the only AI I used was probably the tab completion with GitHub Copilot in VS Code. Early days Since then, my working turned upside down.

I hope to write down more about it one day, but TLDR:

I went through different tools (Cursor, Zed) to – for now – settle down with Claude Code and Codex, which I use every day. Today, I write the definitive most of my code with AI. I also research with AI. I’m building features leveraging LLMs, which bring amazing value to the users. I’m thinking much more about the product, the actual usage of it, the value for the end users, the architecture, safety, deployments than about which C# features to use or how to structure the code on the lowest level. I don’t remember when I last visited StackOverflow

And it’s not only work! AI also completely refactored my personal life. I make appointment notes with AI. I research stuff to buy with AI. I rarely use pure Google search. I vibe code apps for solving my daily issues like managing home finances or learning a new language. Fun times

Code generation

I’ve already mentioned this above, but code generation should have its own paragraph. I’ve never been a developer who loves to write code. I always enjoyed everything around it – analyzing customers’ needs, finding architectures that solve the issue, connecting different dots in the project, coordinating cross-team cooperation, maintaining the documentation or even writing tests. So code generation with AI is something I welcomed with open arms

As I’ve already mentioned, the vast majority of my code is AI-generated. I focus more on planning and reviewing it. It opens many possibilities. I am also never blocked to work on a task anymore, because I always have a place to start – an AI agent.

AI Devs course

A huge step in my AI journey was taking and completing the AI Devs course. It’s been crazy 5 weeks of intensive learning about LLMs, AI agents and multimodality. Very practical, focused on solving real tasks. The course have me solid foundations of the LLMs before the biggest shift with Claude Code and Opus 4.5 came to light. It also opened my eyes to the possibilities LLMs give us. Things that were impossible (or very hard) to realize with pure code are now at our fingertips.

Attended non-technical tech conference

By the end of September 2025 I attended Beyond Code conference. It’s probably the only non-technical IT conference in Poland. The talks and discussions were focused around well-being, mindfulness at work, soft skills and psychology. Very needed type of events, especially in this crazy AI era.

Gave my first public talk

Another significant event was giving my first public talk at a local meetup in Bielsko-Biala. I presented my approach to working with AI tools and how we transformed the software development at the company I work for. The feedback I got was very positive and it was a very rewarding experience

I was invited to a podcast

Last but no least, as kind of an aftermath of the meetup talk, I was invited to an AI podcast episode. Przemek, who is one of the co-founders of Przeprogramowani (an initiative where the guys teach about AI development, basically), happened to attend my talk at the meetup and later invited me to record the podcast episode. We talked about AI again, this time in more depth. I also shared a little about digital nomad life. The episode got quite a lot of traction and positive feedback.

So… what’s next?

Ufff, I’m very happy that I got to this point. I really wanted to publish this article. I know it’s very personal, but that’s what I needed.

To be fully honest, I have no idea what to do with this blog. When I finally sit to it, I really like writing. This is by the way very common in my life recently – I commit to many projects that I really enjoy when actually working on them, but then I have no time to even start working on them, because they are too many

AI have completely reshaped the way I work and also changed my identity. I don’t anymore see myself as someone who will “help you becoming an independent full stack .NET web developer”, as the description in the sidebar of this page still says The free PDF I’m sharing as part of newsletter signup is completely out-of-date now. I don’t even know how I would need to reshape it to fit the current AI era

I don’t really know what’s next. Next for this blog, as well as for my activity in the IT community. Everything changes so fast… But maybe this is what we all found ourselves in right now? Maybe we just need to accept the current pace of things, outdated websites and blogs, as well as AI tools that become legacy a few days after being released?

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