Liviu Tudor — Of Man and Internet

The C compiler compiled itself.

We have always measured engineering orgs by what they ship.

For most of a founder's career, the most expensive thing they owned wasn't money — it was patience.

Twenty years ago, a blank WordPress editor blinked at me.

The Calendrz Smart Scheduler went from first commit to default-enabled in production in 19 hours.

In my previous post, I argued that UIs are becoming optional: that MCP turns your AI assistant into an IDE where every product is just a plugin.

For decades, the way we interact with software has followed the same pattern: someone builds an interface, and we learn to use it.

There’s a category of product emerging that I think deserves its own label: the AI-native product.

The “buy vs build” debate is as old as the software industry itself.

There’s a tension at the heart of building products with AI that nobody talks about enough: AI is fundamentally about sharing and connecting data, but some of the best products are built on the principle of not sharing data.