My profile: 40 years of IT evolution
My name is Marco and I am an IT professional with 40 years of experience spent across software development, analysis, and architecture. Technically I am retired, but I continue to dedicate myself to code to keep my mind active and to give back to a community that has given me so much. Today, I do not look at innovation with suspicion, but with the methodological rigor of someone who can distinguish a passing trend from a paradigm shift. Now I am dedicating a large part of my time to studying Artificial Intelligence systems and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), developing a privacy-oriented Agnostic RAG System. I am not a "Luddite": I am a craftsman learning to use a new chisel, fully aware however that the hand guiding it must know the grain of the wood better than the tool itself.
The Core: The engineering as craft
This series of articles was born to reaffirm a concept that AI marketing is trying to obscure: software engineering is a craft, not a simple sequence of instructions dictated to a machine. We are sliding dangerously toward "Vibe Coding", where the important thing is that the code "looks" like it works at first glance. However, a vast gulf exists between coding speed and architectural solidity.
