After 10 years in software development, wearing different hats, my approach to building changed in 2025. With AI, I’m finally developing the way I’ve long believed we should.
From Typers to Thinkers
I’ve genuinely come to believe the real value of my craft lies in architecture: how things are thought out, assembled, structured, and named.
I have long considered that the technical part of a project was successful when the code was readable, maintainable, with the right abstractions in the right places. And whether I wrote it or one of my developers did, it never mattered — so why would it matter now?
Today, AI types most of our code. We think, they type. Rather than diminishing our value, this shift amplifies it as thinkers — especially for those who love architecture.
This isn’t just my view. As Boris Cherny (thinker behind Claude Code) stated in a great video from Anthropic1:
The code is no longer precious.
A Concrete Example: MCP-Pointer
I recently published my first open-source MCP server: MCP-Pointer - it allows developers to point to browser DOM elements for their preferred agentic coding tools.
For those unfamiliar, MCP is becoming the community standard for AI-tool integration.
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