The Curious Programmer

I recently became a parent, which has made me look backward as much as forward.

The debate about AI and software engineering is focused on the wrong thing.

I keep having the same argument.

A motley gang of venture capitalists, LinkedIn influencers, and recently-laid-off product managers have hijacked your company's hiring pipeline and are threatening to sink it in 30 days with "AI strategy" unless their demands are met.

If you come from Node/TypeScript, uv will feel familiar: it is basically npm + npx + pipx + pyenv + lockfile discipline, but for Python. uv is a single tool that covers project dependencies, virtual environments, Python version management, and publishing.

The Age-Old Quest for a "What-If Machine" Whether you are a business leader, a policymaker, or a team manager, you face a fundamental challenge: making decisions with incomplete information about how people will react.

Over the weekend, I was scrolling through Twitter to see what was happening in the AI community.

CORS looks intimidating.

Reading the MCP (Model Context Protocol) specification can be intimidating.

I've always been fascinated by how some teams seem to bend time—turning what should take years into mere months or even days—while others, including some I've been part of, grind to a halt under the weight of endless meetings and revisions.