You know that feeling of going online and seeing the internet infested with peddlers of illusions? Wherever you point your mouse, a banner from some "crackpot" pops up promising you can become a Software Developer in just 6 months? I'm sorry to tell you: that wasn't today, that was 2 or 3 years ago, and you know exactly who I'm talking about. Yep, unfortunately it's worse now. And I'll explain and show you why.

Today the internet is absolutely overrun with sellers of illusions. It's no longer just that famous guy who sold the 6-month dev dream; now there are dozens, hundreds of them. Miracle courses, 3-month bootcamps, YouTube videos promising to turn you into a senior before lunch, and a flood of shallow content packaged as if it were valuable knowledge. Often the problem isn't even the content itself. The problem is who's selling it: people without real experience in the field, who learned just enough to record a lesson but never really got their hands dirty. They've never suffered through a production bug at 2 a.m. They've never maintained a legacy system that no one else wanted to touch. They've never faced an angry client because the feature that should've been ready last week is still being coded.

And do you know what made all this worse? AI. With the tools we have today, anyone can generate code, produce explanations, design projects, and everything looks amazing on the surface. Today's illusion seller doesn't even need to know how to program for real. They ask ChatGPT, get a neat answer, record the screen, and sell it as if it were their own knowledge. The result? Content that seems to work, seems professional, seems to teach, but that is, architecturally speaking, a mess inside. No standards, no cohesion, no thinking about maintenance, scalability, or anything a real system needs. It's a facade. And the worst part is that learners can't tell the difference, because they've never seen how it's really done.

I've been developing web software for nearly 15 years. I'm not here to sell a course, to promise you'll be a senior in 6 months, or to tell you that programming is easy and anyone can do it. I'm here to bring something that feels increasingly rare in this universe: real experience, with its scars, its shortcuts, and its traps.

Yes, we'll use and talk about AI here. But the difference is that there will be someone with "a bit" of authority guiding that use, someone who knows when AI is helping you and when it's fooling you with a pretty answer that won't work in production.

And this blog, with all that purpose, is my act of rebellion.

Erwin Smith - Esse e um ato de rebeldia contra esse mundo cruel


If you know Attack on Titan, you know what I'm talking about. That classic scene, that moment when someone decides to stop accepting the world as it is and confront the system head-on, even knowing the system is huge, that it's everywhere and that it will resist. It's kind of like that. The tech content market is rotten, infested with empty promises and people making money off the hopes of those trying to break into the field. And I decided not to sit and watch.

So welcome. There will be no easy promises here, no magic formula. There will be knowledge, there will be honesty, and there will be someone who has messed up a lot and learned from it.


Let's get started.