I got my first computer at eight. My uncle had an electronics shop in Prague, so I had access to one before most of my classmates back in Horažďovice even knew what Windows was. I played games, but mostly I dug around the internet to see what I could find. That habit stuck.
At twelve I tried to mine Bitcoin. Downloaded the node, set up a wallet, then quit because I did not really understand what I was doing. Now I do. It does not bother me. I have always enjoyed watching things that look like science fiction right now and completely obvious in ten years. Gaussian splatting, vector databases, digital twins for small businesses. Stuff that sits quietly in the shadow of bigger noise. That is where I tend to look.
I have worked as an IT analyst for over six years. I translate between people who design processes and developers who write code. I take what the business side imagines and turn it into a specification that development can actually build from. Late last year I built a tool for my colleagues at Raiffeisenbank that took a chunk of manual work out of documenting API definitions — technically it is an MCP server for the AI assistant in the editor. Got a bonus for it. Now it is starting to connect with a project an external vendor is running there.
That is what I enjoy most: making something that genuinely saves people work.
I have been in Scouts for eighteen years, at the Prácheň troop near Šumava. Not because I never got around to leaving. They are just my people. Prague is home, Horažďovice is base.
I have a degree. But I value what I learned by jumping into things before I knew how they would turn out far more than any title on paper. AI does not feel like a threat to me. It is a tool. And people who know how to use tools will always be needed.