The Curious Technologist

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder

The Paradox of AI CodingAI coding assistants have made writing code easier than ever. With tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT, developers can generate functions, debug errors, and scaffold entire projects with a few prompts. The mechanical act of...

OpenAI Defends Anthropic Against Supply Chain Risk Label

The StatementOpenAI has publicly pushed back against the designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk. In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), the company argued that Anthropic should not be classified as a security concern, defending a key competitor in the AI...

MCP Server Cuts Claude Code Context Costs by 98%

The Context Window ProblemAI coding assistants like Claude Code are powerful but expensive. Every file you open, every reference you make, consumes tokens from your context window and your budget. For large codebases, these costs add up fast, making AI-assisted...

Decision Trees: Simple Rules, Surprising Power

From If-Else to IntelligenceMachine learning can seem intimidating—neural networks, gradient descent, backpropagation. But one of the most effective ML techniques is surprisingly simple: decision trees. These models use nothing more than nested if-else statements to...

Cardboard: YC’s Agentic AI Video Editor Is Here

The Promise of Agentic EditingVideo editing remains one of the most time-intensive creative tasks. Hours of raw footage must be trimmed, arranged, color-corrected, and polished into coherent stories. What if an AI agent could handle this work?Cardboard, a Y Combinator...

just-bash: Vercel Labs Gives AI Agents Safe Shell Access

The Agent Shell ProblemAI agents that can write and execute code need shell access to be truly useful. But giving an autonomous agent unrestricted bash access is a security nightmare. Vercel Labs has tackled this with just-bash, an open-source tool that provides AI...
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Will Vibe Coding Fade Like the Maker Movement Did?

The Rise of Vibe CodingA new term has entered the developer lexicon: vibe coding. It describes a style of software development where programmers describe what they want in natural language, and AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT generate the actual code....
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US Cities Have Too Many Bus Stops—and It’s Slowing Everyone Down

The Problem with Frequent StopsBuses in American cities crawl along at average speeds of just 8 miles per hour—barely faster than walking. One major culprit is stop frequency: US buses typically stop every 700-800 feet, while European systems use 1,300-foot...
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Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets—Until Gemini Changed the Rules

The DiscoveryIn November 2025, Truffle Security researchers made an alarming discovery: Google AI Studio API keys—commonly embedded in public code for services like Google Maps—could also access the powerful Gemini AI API without developers' knowledge or explicit...
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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer in Disguise

Beyond the MythJimi Hendrix is remembered as a guitar god, a psychedelic icon who redefined rock music in the 1960s. But beneath the cultural legend lies something more technical: Hendrix was essentially a systems engineer working with analog circuits instead of...

Interview with Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong: Forging a “Cognitive Revolution” “Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a surgeon, drug developer, entrepreneur and the richest man in American medicine. Since selling the company that makes his breakthrough cancer drug...

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The Hidden Agenda of Amazon’s New Phone From Wired: “Yes, with the Fire Phone, Amazon is making an aggressive move into Apple and Google’s territory in the smartphone market. On stage, Bezos directly compared the quality of the Fire Phone camera to the...

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IBM Research WatsonPaths Demo “After a year-long research collaboration with faculty, physicians and students at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, IBM Research has unveiled two cognitive computing technologies that...

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thetechgets: fastcompany: Here’s what the 3D and dynamic perspective look like on the Amazon Fire phone. Join our live coverage! (gif made from Chrisdanielsking5 video on Instagram) That seems Legit! 😀

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A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students “The Stitchfest hackathon at UPenn didn’t know what was coming when Andrew Quitmeyer and Firaz Peer built an Arduino-powered genital shocker for their DIY hacking contest. This was...

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Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process and Product Philosophy A snippet: Q. You recently assumed leadership of software interface design. Has this altered the company’s design process? A. I provide some leadership and direction in terms of user interface – a...

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