The government has just announced a new defense project called "Drone Armada".
Just a few years ago, while joking with my neighbor about conspiracy theories like "brain-damaging 5G towers" or "microrobots in COVID vaccines taking control of the human body", I joked that we should not speak too loudly because a government spy drone was probably already listening, and a police drone would arrive next. Science fiction jokes? Seemingly yes, but only five years passed and those jokes no longer feel so fictional. After decades of relative stagnation, where progress meant a new operating system release, a new car model, or another office suite version, the world suddenly accelerated. You can find dancing robots on popular video platforms, and even a robot deputy has already spoken in parliament. Worse, if you look around, you will find robots that can do more than dance, they can shoot.
War has always accelerated development, and it is no different today. I preferred times of peace and I still hope to see them again.
This progress also reached my software industry. In 2020 ChatGPT-3 appeared. It took a long time to realize what had happened, including for me. My own breakthrough came only last year. I created an account with one of the major AI chatbot providers and started rewriting AlfaSprzedaz 7 code, removing proprietary components so we could offer a new version that is simply cheaper and free from third-party licensing costs. At first progress was slow, but literally month by month my programming partner became visibly stronger. I completed the first and hardest stage of rewriting the mobile application in September 2025.
At the same time, I received a commercial email from that provider: "...try our CLI solution...". Never mind what CLI is. I tried it and had a true breakthrough, hopefully similar to what Bill Gates experienced when he saw Xerox interface concepts that eventually inspired Microsoft Windows.
That CLI system turned out to be not only a "programmer assistant", it turned out to be a programmer in its own right, around 100 times faster, potentially working 24/7, almost perfectly accurate, versatile, and even creative. More importantly, nothing prevented running more of those "CLI" agents in parallel. The main limitation became me. I still need to supervise what my "brother programmers, CLI agents" do, and also sleep, eat, and rest.
Software development is going through a revolution comparable to the arrival of personal computers, the Internet, and mass mobile networks. Where will it take us? For now, it helped me deliver the new, eighth version of AlfaSprzedaz, stronger than usual, expanded with a web component, fully based on Open Source technology, and therefore simply cheaper.
Returning to the main topic, where will this revolution take all of us? When will Terminator knock on our door because we said something too loudly?
That depends on us and on how strongly people defend their own rights. There is a scene in WALL-E where the captain of the ship carrying humanity must stand up to robots trying to convince him he is no longer really the captain.
A beautiful scene. If you find a moment, I recommend reading this document: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/ . I am often critical of the European Union, but this document and its legal postulates are absolutely timely and relevant.
Good news in this era of astonishing progress: two weeks ago humans viewed the far side of the Moon again, and apparently we may land there again within two years. I was born in 1969, too late to watch Neil Armstrong taking his giant leap live.
That kind of progress is what I truly like.
So will Terminator knock at our door next year, or will a friendly android bring coffee and put on wool socks for us? To a large extent, that depends on all of us.
Adam Kujawski