Thoughs on my way home

The 21st century really is amazing. I’m on an AVE train back to Madrid, coding on a laptop that weighs less than 1 kg, connected to the Internet. I barely type —an AI does the heavy lifting. I give it commands, review what it gives me, make corrections, and I don’t forget to say please and thank you.

Seven years ago, I was on another AVE headed to Valencia. Back then, my laptop was twice as heavy and had barely any Internet. I wrote the foundations of Playtomic’s payment flow in those 2.5 hours. All in Java + Spring Boot, hand-coded in IntelliJ. The DB was local. Today, I’m in Cursor with Next.js/TypeScript, and the DB is remote on NeonDB.

I used to prep offline work for train rides. Now? Nothing. If I don’t have a connection, it’s not worth working —better to wait until I arrive.

Makes me really think about how much our profession is going to change in the coming years.

Also, this is the first post I write in Spanish on this blog and I’m asking ChatGPT to translate it for me, in my style.