Kritika HDP: Portrait of the AI-rtist as a Young Man (1)
Developer
Software engineer with 25+ years of experience in the ultra-high-tech industry, across 100+ projects in domains ranging from finance to human rights, built in a wide range of technological environments spanning the history of programming from assembler (I did it!) to vibe coding (I'm doing it!).
Software engineer with 25+ years of experience in the ultra-high-tech industry, across 100+ projects in domains ranging from finance to human rights, built in a wide range of technological environments spanning the history of programming from assembler (I did it!) to vibe coding (I'm doing it!).
CV
All-around Engineer & Tech Lead with 25+ years of experience building complex systems for high-demand industries. Led teams, architected and developed solutions from scratch to production.
Resourceful across the entire stack, from databases, through UI, to deployment. Want scalable, want maintainable, want reliable? Want cheap, want fast, want quality? Want teamwork, want mentoring, want stakeholder communication?
We'll work it out.
Brings versatility, credibility, old age, and humor to the job.
Experience
Memorable Projects
Expertise
Education
Are you really that old, Želimir?
01 org 100h ; COM file
02
03 section .text
04 _start:
05 mov ah, 09h ; print string
06 mov dx, msg ; pointer to string
07 int 21h ; DOS interrupt
08
09 mov ah, 4Ch ; DOS exit
10 xor al, al ; exit code 0
11 int 21h
12
13 section .data
14 msg db "YES", 13, 10, "$" ; CR + LF + $
15
Ln 15 Col 1
8086 / DOS / COM
AI
Artificial intelligence is coming for all of us. And it came for programmers first.
As programmers in the high-tech industry, Machine Learning and artificial intelligence had been part of our day-to-day work since the early part of the decade. When ChatGPT 3.5 appeared on 30 Nov 2022, everything changed. People mocked it, but for those of us who already knew what AI was, the hairs on the back of our necks stood up.
When Coding Agents arrived in late 2025, it became clear that the professional career as we knew it was over. This process of evolving awareness about the power and possibilities of AI has been documented in the following articles:
Love projects
When I program love projects I don't use shortcuts, I don't reuse ready-made components, and — God forbid — design templates with the same old best practice standards.
No.
I build everything from scratch and allow myself mistakes. There is beauty in imperfection.
A black-and-white website whose elements begin to gain color only when you touch or read them, because reading gives color to the world.
A serious, highly sophisticated portfolio whose purpose is to showcase the author's great skill and exceptional deadpan professionalism.
I programmed a multitude of low-budget, high-idea, medium-creativity video games, presented on another page of this website.