Autographe

I’m starting a new project: Autographe. It’s a desktop app for prose writers. Why yet another desktop app for writers, isn’t there enough of them? The software development industry has gone absolutely crazy with AI. Developers of all levels are using LLMs to produce code to the detriment of their hard-won skills. Not long before, we were arguing about, and almost shy talking about the myth of the 10x programmer; today everyone and his dog is developing apps, they are effectively a 100x developers in terms of the amount of code produced. ...

June 11, 2026 · Wassim Mansouri

Pausing My Blockchain Endeavors and Exploring New Things

I discovered Blockchain in early 2022, where I was hooked by the cipher-punk culture and how much of human modern suffering is derived by the unfair financial system. I decided then to deepen my knowledge, and that led me to learn the basics of applied cryptography, systems programming with Rust, and eventually the Polkadot SDK. This was a lot of fun, and full of big discoveries; the most important one was Systems Programming. I genuinely enjoyed the systems programming part and how my previous experience with programming using high level languages now seems like playing Lego! ...

June 18, 2024 · Wassim Mansouri