Writing code is passé. But it was never about that.

I already hated it in primary school. And still, with my phone under the desk, I hand-wrote an HTML and JS page in a text editor, just for myself, on the only free hosting I could find: sweb.cz.

Seznam shut sweb down. What is left is a line in a list of defunct domains and a copy in the National Library, which they will only show you in the reading room.

The code was terrible. But those days spent on it made me stop and ask whether it was worth doing at all. And that is exactly what a lot of people and projects are missing today, with everything sped up this much.

Now I hear from everyone that anybody from marketing will replace a programmer, you only need to know how to prompt. But that same person from marketing would object if you told them their job is just writing text. Development is the same. You have to think a few levels ahead, and above all you have to enjoy it, or you won’t last.

Today you can click that website together in ten minutes. But ten minutes is not enough to realize whether you even want it yourself, let alone whether anyone else does.

AI writes the code for me now. Whether it should be written at all is still on me.