Code & Curiosity by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

AI companies like OpenAI are buying up open source tools. They have a strategy behind that. Maybe not one that will benefit the main users of those tools though.

There are many AI (coding) agents. Claude Code, Codex ... and many more. They're all great. And they all can actually do more than just coding. That's why the "PI" agent stands out!

With the rise of AI agents, CLIs, text input and text formats like markdown and JSON are becoming more important and useful than ever before (or at least since the ~80s). And for a good reason!

It's a ... difficult ... time for developers. Everything's changing quickly. There are people spreading fear. There are people spreading hope. There are challenges and opportunities. Yeah ... it's a lot!

Angular 2 was released in 2016. I released my first major course on Udemy about Angular exactly 10 years ago. Time to look back AND ahead!

OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) had some pretty "intense" days. There's been (and still is!) lots of hype around it. Because it's the first (working) personal AI assistant. Still, I'm not really getting the hype...

Tailwind CSS is amazing library. It really is. I want it to succeed. But I'm not using for all my projects anymore.

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.