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...

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future-drama: Google Ideas Google Ideas: Conflict in a Connected World “Conflict has existing from the dawn of time, but in today’s world, global connectivity is changing the nature of modern conflict. We have seen how developments in technology have both...

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Brough Superior make successful return to Bonneville Salt Flats “In 2011 Brough Superior Motorcycles travelled to the famous Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and set a new record with their 1150cc Pendine Model. In August this year the Brough Superior...

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The highly unusual company behind Sriracha, the world’s coolest hot sauce “If David Tran were a more conventional CEO, he would be a fixture at conferences, a darling of magazine profiles, and a subject of case studies in the Harvard Business Review....

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‘83 BMW R80 - ER Motorcycles “You can feel their attraction. Like the force of gravity, they seem to exert a powerful yet invisible pull on all bodies near and far. You can try and avoid them, moving in an elliptical orbit so that you fool yourself...

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Robots. NHK Documentary about robots. Watch and tremble. From the youtube page: Robot will Compete to Handle Future DisastersRobotics is the art and commerce of robots, their design, manufacture, application, and practical use. Robots will soon be everywhere, in our...

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