Code & Curiosity by Maximilian Schwarzmüller

We're seeing more and more (severe) supply chain attacks. That's horrible and obviously extremely dangerous. But it's only level 1...

Anthropic & SpaceX (xAI) agreed on a partnership. Anthropic leases Colossus 1 AND therefore can raise Claude Code usage limits. But there's more to it!

Do we have an OpenAI & Anthropic challenger? A better, cheaper LLM architecture that "solves" AI? Or maybe just some pointless hype?

We're not discussing JavaScript frameworks anymore. But do tech stack choices still matter? Or should we let the AI decide (or influence our decisions)?

Anthropic announced a new, non-public model that is more capable than ever, finding bugs and security vulnerabilities that existed for 27 years. It's kind of frightening...

We have to talk about AI. Again. I know. But I have some strong, mixed feelings about it.

Guillermo Rauch made an "interesting" post about how code is now no longer in the focus of developers. And how it was always wrong to glorify it. Yeah ... I don't fully agree...

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.

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...

A recent MIT study on the use of ChatGPT and its implications on our brains confirms what most of us already experienced: We're relying too much on AI...

There's a new AI model almost every day. Is that a problem?

At Google I/O 2025 Google, of course, announced LOTS OF AI-related services, projects and initiatives. It's therefore easy to miss the announcement of Gemma 3n. That would be too bad because it looks pretty interesting and amazing.

I didn't see that coming! After merging Remix with React Router, the future of Remix is ... NOT about React. Okay, maybe it makes sense. But still a bold move!

What a week in AI? Well, okay, I guess every week is "packed with announcements". But with Google IO, tons of projects and the Claude 4 model releases, there WAS a lot going on. Time to unpack!

There's a lot of hype around LLMs & generative AI - especially when it comes to "AI Agents". I don't have a super agent (or an army of agents) that does work for me. But I got a couple of use-cases that really help me get more done!

LLMs often default to a single tech stack (like React, Tailwind, ShadCN). This tendency could reduce competition and innovation in the long run, potentially leading to a development monoculture.

I've slept for too long on open LLMs like Gemma, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek etc. They're AMAZING! Using them is simple (with LM Studio or Ollama) and they're not far behind the "big models" you can access via ChatGPT etc. At least in my experience. I'm using them for all kinds of tasks...

React Compiler RC (Release Candidate) was released! Almost one year after its initial release (back then in experimental status), it's now almost ready for production use. And it can save you LOTS OF time of writing useMemo(), useCallback() and memo()!

Google released a couple of AI Agent related products & services! The A2A protocol is maybe the most interesting initiative. Also because it kind of clashes with MCP. Or does it?

Microsoft & VS Code are striking back against Cursor & Windsurf. And not just by making GitHub Copilot better...