The Curious
Programmer

I recently became a parent, which has made me look backward as much as forward. I have been thinking about my own childhood, and about the lessons, habits, and struggles that shaped the person I became. I’m sure most parents do this. We…

The debate about AI and software engineering is focused on the wrong thing. One side says AI will make engineers far more productive. The other says it will fill codebases with AI slop. Both sides are right. AI is not good or bad by…

I keep having the same argument. Someone writes a ticket. "Add a dropdown for country selection on the signup form." Fine. An engineer builds it. Ships it. The stakeholder looks at it and goes "No, that’s not what I meant." Now everyone’s…

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. The…

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,…

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. We launch new…