Hello!
I’m Chris Krycho — a follower of Christ, a husband, and a dad. I’m a software engineer by trade; a theologian and composer by vocation; and a writer, runner and cyclist, and erstwhile podcaster by hobby.
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Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value↩︎—❈ (July 3, 2025)
In Christianity Today’s July/August 2025 issue on artificial intelligence.
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Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software (May 13, 2025)
My LambdaConf 2025 Opening Keynote
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StaffPlus NY 2024: Substrate Engineering (September 9, 2024)
Engineering Foundations in a World of LLMs
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Seeing Like a Programmer (LambdaConf 2024) (May 7, 2024)
Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards in Software Engineering
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jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023)
What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.
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Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight – Live Recording! ↩︎—❈ (March 31, 2023)
Last summer, I hired the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and recorded my fanfare. And now: you can listen to the recording!
The Latest
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True Myth v9.2.0 (September 26, 2025)
Just one new, but nice, feature:
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Write Good Commit Messages (September 25, 2025)
It doesn’t take long and you never know when it will pay massive dividends.
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Context and Trust, or: Test Suites Reflect Teams (September 21, 2025)
A mild rejoinder to Brandur’s recent mini-rant on testing speed, and a meditation on scaling groups of people and products.
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Rain / Beach / Dog (July 6, 2025)
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no efficiency… very little scalability (April 16, 2025)
Quoting Deb Chachra on “Baumol’s Cost Disease”.
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jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023)
What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.
In Progress
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Whither Gradual Typing? (started July 29, 2023)
Thinking out loud prompted by recent comments from Richard Feldman and Jamie Brandon.
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Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening (started January 13, 2023; updated March 29, 2023)
—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
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true-myth-zod (June 14, 2025; updated June 18, 2025)
The Year of Shipping continues!
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2025 Colfax Marathon Race Report (May 18, 2025; updated June 4, 2025)
I ran my first marathon today! It went great!
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Real Essentialism (November 24, 2024; updated January 23, 2025)
A(n attempted/asserted) defense of Aristotelian metaphysics.
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jj init (February 2, 2024; started July 1, 2023; updated September 9, 2024)
What if we actually could replace Git? Jujutsu might give us a real shot.
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Motel Guest’s Only (April 3, 2021; updated April 6, 2021)
New Mexico Vacation, Day 1: An overflow lot in Las Vegas, New Mexico