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\n\n\nI wrote a post a while back: “A letter to my fellow software engineers.” I warned about AI dulling our standards, about outsourcing our thinking, about the trap we were all walking into. I meant every word. And then I became the warning.<\/p>\n
Our company pivoted. Hard. AI everywhere, all at once. Everyone around me was using it, generating code, reviewing PRs, writing docs. The momentum was relentless.<\/p>"},{"title":"A letter to my fellow software engineers","link":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/a-letter-to-fellow-engineers\/","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:20:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/a-letter-to-fellow-engineers\/","description":"\n\n\n
To whom it may concern,<\/p>\n
I\u2019m worried about our profession.<\/p>\n
Not because AI exists - but because we\u2019re letting it dull our standards.<\/p>\n
We used to take pride in craftsmanship: understanding systems deeply, writing\ncode with intention, caring about the details. Lately, I\u2019m seeing more and more\nAI-generated code that should never escape the “proof of concept” phase.<\/p>\n
We have all seen the AI slop and how humiliating is. Imagine something worse.\nMuch worse. A fellow software engineer working for a Car Company. The same\nfellow is working on the part of the car related with the passenger and driver\nsafety<\/strong> (whatever it may be). And imagine the fellow software engineer just\nvibing<\/em> it because fellow was lazy to think and let AI do the thinking.\nJust imagine the consequences.<\/p>"},{"title":"Why Do New Programmers Quit So Quickly","link":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/why-do-new-programmers-quit-so-quickly\/","pubDate":"Sat, 09 May 2020 16:38:35 +0200","guid":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/why-do-new-programmers-quit-so-quickly\/","description":" If you are a programmer or a computer scientist, you have probably been asked a gazillion times by a friend (or a friend’s friend) to teach them or guide them into the programming world. And yet, very few of those friends actually succeed in that. Why is that? We are about to see that.<\/p>\n And if you are a programmer who just started learning, use this as a motivation to keep going.<\/p>"},{"title":"If C and Python Had a Baby","link":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/if-c-and-python-had-a-baby\/","pubDate":"Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:30:22 +0200","guid":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/if-c-and-python-had-a-baby\/","description":" After working for ages in PHP, Python and Java, I wanted to try something new. I was (and still am) happy with those languages, but it just didn’t feel right, there was something missing. Just like everything in this world, each and every language has its own pluses and minuses. Some of the pluses and minuses are just facts, while some are just subjective feelings toward the language.<\/p>\n For example, I just adore Python for its simplicity and ability to create new things in matter of “minutes”. But unfortunately it’s interpreted language, and that makes it a little bit slow (I am not taking PyPy or CPython into this story), which implies for all interpreted languages.<\/p>"},{"title":"My Google Interview Experience","link":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/my-google-interview-experience\/","pubDate":"Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:57:46 +0200","guid":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/posts\/my-google-interview-experience\/","description":" (I wont be giving any technical questions I was asked. There are a lot of pages where you can get such information.)<\/p>\n …when I received an email from a Google recruiter. At first I thought it was a prank or a scam. But email came from google.com<\/strong> domain. At the time I was also sceptical since somebody could have created their own mail server and “SMTP” that email to me. But after some research I came to a conclusion that this is for real. I couldn’t believe it!\nI decided to answer to that email and give it a try. My recruiter (lets call him Danny) Danny scheduled a call with me the next day. He was really, really pleasant and easy to talk to. Danny asked me about my work experience, and some basic Computer Science questions (which I was actually looking forward to).\nFew days later Danny called me to schedule another interview. Only that this was a technical interview.<\/p>"},{"title":"A little bit a byte me","link":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/about\/","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000","guid":"https:\/\/devtizm.com\/about\/","description":" Hi, I\u2019m Matija Martinic \u2014 starting strong with a dad pun, as promised (see\ntitle). I\u2019m a husband and a proud father of two, and I\u2019ve been programming\nsince I was 11 (yes, I peaked early and I\u2019m still riding that high). I’ve\nbeen in the industry for more than 2 decades and still enjoying every single\nminute, especially those nearing the 5pm mark. Those minutes are the best.<\/p>\n I grew up competing in all kinds of programming contests through childhood,\nprimary school, high school and college, which is probably why my brain is now\npermanently wired to hunt for the most elegant, ridiculously simple solution to\na problem that has no business being that complex.<\/p>"}]}}I was minding my own business…<\/h2>\n