Imagine you are one of the 212,230 AI ChatGPT Wrappers founded in 2025 about to make your grand debut to the world. You push your code, vercel deploys it for you while charging too much money to your bank account, and you sit happily, waiting for the profits to rake in, unaware of the disaster awaiting.
For a fair amount of time, I have been interested in functional programming, especially because of Lean, theorem proving, and formal languages in general.
But I did not really get into it for a long time, and the reason was pretty simple.
OCI is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which is Oracle’s cloud. Roughly the same idea as AWS or GCP, with different names for everything.
Most of my infra work on it started as clicking around in the console until something worked. That is fine once. It is not fine the fourth time, when you cannot remember which of the six things you changed was the one that mattered.
I learned C++ and I barely use it.
Not because I dislike it. I actually like C++. I like how explicit it is, and I like the control it gives me.
But if I’m being honest, my C++ usage today is basically LeetCode. That is the whole list.
I found out about Nix from a good friend of mine. The first time I heard about it, I thought it was a lot of trouble for very little benefit. I have been running it for about a year now, and I do not really want to go back. Here are 6 reasons why.
Python used to come with this annoying warm-up ritual: make a venv, install stuff, discover something conflicts, and then somehow it works on this machine but not the next one. uv basically removed that entire category of pain. It makes Python feel fast, predictable, and honestly more serious as a day-to-day dev tool.