My mom got computer insurance because she knew I'd break them.
She was right.
At twelve I found on a forum — one of those forums from back then — a guide to installing Android on an HP laptop running Windows. I followed every step to the letter. I burned the main partition and the recovery one. Computer had to go to support.
On the phone with the HP tech, he asked me how I did it. I told him I followed a guide on the internet. Silence.
It wasn't the smartest thing I'd ever done. But it was the most mine.
From university to corporate
I did Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Finished in 2019. I was good at exams — way better at passing them than at understanding what I was studying. But technically that path built me.
After Politecnico: HP Enterprise, IT consulting. Then a client — Vodafone — wanted me in. Stayed a few years. Fixed salary, remote work, all good.
All good.
That feeling when everything is fine but you know it's not enough.
Late 2025: I quit
The world is big. I want to see it. And above all: I want to build something of my own.
I leave at the end of 2025. No precise plan. A computer with a GPU, an internet connection, and the idea that AI was changing everything — not in ten years, right now.
I started building xyz.vision: tools and automations for people who work for themselves. No agency, no slides. Just things that work.
AI lets you build at a speed that wasn't possible before. If you know how to use the tools. If you put in the work.
Which isn't always a given.
May 2026
I just got back from India. I met a driver in Jaipur — Nizam — who had shut down his tour business after Covid. I built him a landing page generated with a local AI model, on my home server, while sitting in a guesthouse in Rajasthan.
I don't know if it'll work. But it's exactly the kind of thing I want to do.
This blog is where I tell how it goes.
Alessio Cappuccio — xyz.vision