Hello New World

For decades, every programmer's first program was "Hello World"—a simple print statement that marked the beginning of a coding journey. Many of us remember. Today, as I write my first blog post and build my personal website, I'm greeting a fundamentally different world. This isn't just "Hello World"—it's "Hello New World.".

This blog entry itself is thought out by me and main brain, but AI supported me putting it together. Why? Well, I am not a great write and it helps for you readers to make it easier absorbing the content. Furthermore allows me to be more efficient with my time use. It is that simple.

After 25 years in engineering and management, I left my corporate role in mid-2024. The past 18 months have been a period of recovery and reflection. It is time to step back into adding value to society and fullfill myself some more. I decided to pivot toward entrepreneurship again. There are mulitple reasons for it.

I always like to create full projects. Meaning design some hardware design and some software to make the product or solution whole. In the past I was challanged on the software side. Yes, I could create embedded contrtoller project on a lower level, but large scale software like integrating a SLAM algorithm or something similar was just too complex for me taking on as side projects next to work and family&friends. Let's not forget recoverytime and another whole discussion by itself.

After playing around with LLMs in the last half year with more depth I experienced something unprecedented: I have a coding partners, work executioner, support manager and so much more I can really use. The name is AI.

In the past my static websites were nice and I was proud of it. Now building a complete REACT website with database, auth and so much more functionality all by myself and the support of agentic coding I felt that paradigm shift we are in it right now.

I used for this website end of 2025 the Cursor IDE with claude code Opus 4.5, utilizing autonomous agents setup. The speed of execution is phenomenal. What would have taken weeks of research, trial, and error now happens in hours. There would also have been a good chance like the past that I had to drop some features or give up. The whole launch and Ops side was always very challaning to me, but with AI support I resolved all of it. It's both exhilarating and disorienting.

We're experiencing a fundamental transformation in how work gets done. AI models have reached capacities that, when combined with automation, create entirely new workflows. But here's the critical realization: as an individual I have relearn how to work with these tools and setups. The skills that made us effective in the old paradigm—memorizing syntax is no longer valid anymore.

I've caught myself repeatedly falling into old habits: diving deep into understanding every line of code, trying to understand every framework before using it. For example I learned with some Udemy courses specific frameworks. Yes I have a better understanding, but it ate my most valuable asset, time. Knowing all the details is not our role anymore. I do believe that. Our task is to think and orchestrators. We define the vision, we articulate the requirements, we validate the outcomes. AI handles the brunt of execution.

This mental shift is harder than it sounds. After decades of being hands-on with hardware and some software, trusting an agent to implement correctly feels odd. I'm getting there, but I still need time to adapt. For me the challenge isn't technical—it's psychological. It's about learning to work at a higher level of abstraction while maintaining quality and intentionality. Sure, there is still the whole nine yards on security, no question. We will see bad instances, but I also believe with companies responsiblities, the community and open source individual users can reach a better and more secure setup where AI is a fundamental part of it.

As a hardware engineer by training, having workeed as manager with a nice safe job in a high tech taking this route now into agentic coding feels like entering uncharted territory. But I see it as a once in a lifetime opportunity. My background in product development, my experience building systems from the ground up and launching to volume production give me a good perspective or intution on what can and can not be done. Additionally having been in senior managment position at high tech Silicon Valley companies also taught me to seek a northstar far out there.

Over the coming months, I plan to share my learnings from this transition. What works. What doesn't. How to think about building products in this new paradigm. How to maintain craftsmanship when you're orchestrating rather than implementing directly.

This website—and this blog—will serve as my anchor. Here people can find my content, follow my journey, reach out. Where I can establish credibility that I am human and showcase my evolving skills in product design, web development, Web 3.0, AI tools, and modern development practices.

Today my journey started with these words: Hello New World!