Matthew van Bird

Notes from Matthew van Bird — staff engineer writing on .NET, AWS, distributed systems, and pragmatic AI engineering.

Writing

How AI Made Us Productive and Clueless: A 2025 Retrospective — 2026-01-01
Why You Should Avoid Using Exceptions for Normal Application Flow in C# — 2025-05-10
The good, the bad and the ugly of Vibe Programming with Cursor — 2025-04-21
The Hidden Cost of \"Free\" Open Source: Overengineering, Licensing Risks, and When Simplicity Wins — 2025-04-08
The Full-Stack Illusion — 2025-03-03
Infinite References and Their Elegance — 2025-02-22
Head vs Heart Engineering — 2025-02-08
The Corporate Conundrum: Why Employees Tolerate Inferior Tools, Processes and Systems — 2025-01-03