Guinness & Generative AI

2025 had very different things mixed together. A Guinness record, the start of a new university degree and projects that stopped being experiments and became things that actually worked.

Microsoft's AI Skills Fest was a massive event, with thousands of people participating at the same time. There were many of us doing the same thing in different parts of the world. The record came as a result of that, not as something I individually sought. I celebrated it, it's good to have it, but there were other things that year that mattered more to me.

I started the Software Design degree at the Universidad Nacional de Catamarca studying completely remotely. It's a strange situation: you're part of an institution you can't physically visit, with classmates you don't know in person and with the entire university dynamic filtered through a screen. I'm still processing it. It's not bad, it's just different from what I imagined studying would be like.

The change wasn't technical. It was when I built something that gave someone answers in real time, about a concrete problem, and that person didn't have to wait or rephrase the question. That's when I understood the difference between knowing how to use a tool and understanding what it's actually for.

The projects with generative AI, autonomous agents and FastAPI I built that year weren't the most visible ones I have. But they were the ones that taught me the most about how to think about a system that has to respond well, fast and without room for obvious error.