Code & Curiosity by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

Dario Amodei shared a quite ... ambitious ... timeline / expectation on when AI will be able to build software on its own. I'm not so sure about it...

You can read it everywhere on X - everbody's a software developer now. There's no future for SaaS companies. Is that true?

It's a new year - time for a new tech stack! Well, not really. But there ARE a couple of libraries and technologies I'm currently using about which I'm really quite excited!

TailwindCSS is in HUGE financial problems. The very thing that loves it (AI) may be the thing killing it. It's really a dire situation.

AI has a huge impact on ... everything? Definitely also on how we learn things. And IF we learn things at all. And then there's the big question about WHAT to learn as a web dev in world where AI can already do so much!

2025 has been a year full of AI hype BUT also of real improvements of AI models and tools. And the job market, especially for junior devs, has been ... rough, to put it mildly. How will things change in 2026?

Another year's over. You know what that means! Time for a look back. MY look back in this case. And it's been quite a year. In good and bad ways.

MCP has been all the hype for the last 1.5 years. Kind of, at least. But you can safely ignore it as a developer. Agent Skills are the way better alternative.

Coursera buys Udemy. Or they merge - depending on how you look at it. Either way, I have some initial thoughts about it.

We had multiple React-related severe security vulnerabilities within a few weeks. Did React get too complex? Is the client-server complexity eating into security?

Remember 2016-2022? The golden era of coding tutorials? They still exist today! But they changed. And they're getting less views. Let's talk about it.

AI is not just a great assistant or for "vibe coding". It's also amazing if you know stuff but not everything.

Gemini 3 is clearly optimized for a very specific task. And it's not really related to your job as a frontend developer.

Let another hype cycle begin - Google Gemini 3 is here! And it may be amazing - if we can trust benchmarks.

There's a disturbing "trend" (kind of): Some APIs are locking up or charging (quite a bit of) money for usage. X (Twitter) is one example. Reddit is another recent one. And they won't be the last ones to do that.

Gen AI is helping cyber criminals become more efficient. And we're only at the beginning.

Cursor CEO Michael Truell mentioned in a Podcast that he sees a future where we move away from "traditional" programming languages, towards English being used as the primary input language. I only agree to a certain degree.

There has been some drama related to Vercel's new Workflow Development Kit, the "use workflow" and "use step" directives and React's complexity.

Meta laid of 600 people from their AI division. Just a few months after going on a 100s of millions hiring spree during the summer 2025. Is this the end of the AI hype?

One year ago, Flutter Flock was announced - a fork of Flutter that aimed to fix many of the shortcomings of the Flutter project. Looks like Flutter didn't get flocked though...

AI is there. AI unlocks powerful new capabilities and business models. Like my AI headshot generator (https://business-headshots.ai/). It can make you more productive. But it can also make you dumber. And it may speed up the global brainrot. Le's talk about it.

There have been multiple npm package attacks over the last couple of days. The impact has been huge. And it may be even bigger in the future. As developers, we must try to reduce the danger of being compromised by attacks like these. Thankfully, there are some ways of doing that.

ChatGPT unveiled their brand-new "ChatGPT Agent" - a LLM-powered AI agent that can use a virtual computer on your behalf. For example, to browse the internet and take action on the internet. Is that bright new future ahead?

There's lots of hype around AI - specifically around "AI Agents" (it's the year of AI Agents after all!!!) and "vibe coding". That's a pity. Because there IS useful stuff behind the hype...