Hello, Internet (Again)

January 2026 feels like somebody leaned on the fast‑forward button.

AI is changing the world we live in at a pace that’s honestly hard to internalize. If you’re in software, it’s not subtle. The craft is shifting under our feet: what’s "easy" is changing, what’s "valuable" is changing, and the gap between idea and running code is collapsing in real time.

Here’s the thesis for this blog:

I want a place to capture what I’m thinking while the future is still being invented — and I want to do it in public so the ideas can bounce, mutate, and get better.

Not in a "hot takes only" way. More like a time capsule + a workshop + an open tab I keep coming back to.

I wish I had written things down the first time

I was an early internet user in high school and college. I have a ridiculous number of memories from that era — the weirdness, the optimism, the chaos, the sense that the rules were still being negotiated in the open.

The funny part is: I can remember how it felt... but I can’t always remember what I thought.

And that’s the real loss. I wish I had a documented trail of my opinions as it unfolded: what I believed the web would become, what I got right, what I got wrong, what surprised me, what I didn’t even see coming. The internet from 30+ years ago is almost unrecognizable compared to what we experience today. It would be wild to have a personal archive of the mental models I was building back then.

AI is giving me that same feeling of "oh wow, we’re really doing this." So this time I’m going to keep receipts.

I want to connect with people who are paying attention

I love talking about technology and where the future is headed. Right now it feels like there are more possibilities opening up — both good and bad — than at any point in my lifetime.

I’m an optimist by default. Not a blind optimist. More like: I’ve seen what humans can build when we stack a thousand small insights on top of each other.

AI is one of those moments.

It’s easy to focus on the scary parts (and we should take those seriously), but I also feel genuine pride that the human race discovered so many different things — math, hardware, networks, algorithms, interfaces, manufacturing, education — and then layered them together until a machine can help you write code, explain a concept, design a UI, or translate an idea into something real.

That’s beyond incredible.

Most of what I do is behind a curtain

A lot of the things I work on day‑to‑day are proprietary, sensitive, or just not the kind of thing you can casually blog about.

But I still have ideas I want to share.

I want a public place to think out loud about the parts that are shareable: what I’m learning, how I’m approaching problems, how I’m using tools, what I’m noticing about the industry, and what I think is likely to happen next.

If nothing else, it’s a contribution to the big ongoing conversation that the internet is still surprisingly good at having. And the start of 2026 is as good a time as any to get started.

Why not? The tools changed the math

The other honest reason I’m doing this is simple: AI tools are making me orders of magnitude more productive.

I’m shipping more little applications, more side projects, more useful personal tools. The friction that used to kill momentum is lower now. I can stay in the creative flow longer. I can iterate faster. I can do the boring parts without spending my whole evening doing the boring parts.

So why not create a blog too?

One important note: going forward, this blog will contain my personal inputs and curation, but I absolutely use AI tools to help me create — especially for the little details that would normally consume too much time. I’m a busy person with a lot of responsibilities. I also have a deep "creator itch" in my personality.

AI lets me scratch it more often.

What I want to share here

A few categories you’ll see show up repeatedly include AI + software development (what’s working, what’s not, and how my own workflow is evolving), where I think we’re headed (not predictions carved in stone — more like "here are the doors that look unlocked"), personal stories from the early internet days and whatever else seems worth writing down, side projects and what I learned or would do differently, and the occasional fun internet detour (AI image slop, memes, weird artifacts).

If you’re reading this and thinking "yep, that’s my vibe," then we’ll probably get along.

Say hi

If you want to discuss opportunities, swap ideas, collaborate on something, or just argue (politely) about the future — I’d love to hear from you.

The easiest way to reach me is email: bruce@bhart.org