Conrad Mugisha

Software Engineer.

Off-hours: 👟🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️
Opinions are my own.

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

Summited 3 Highest peaks in East Africa.

2024: Mt. Kilimanjaro - Uhuru peak (5685m asl)

2025: Mt.Kenya - Point Lenana (4985m asl)

2026: Mt. Rwenzori - Margherita peak (5109m asl)

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

AI has made writing code faster, but not necessarily cheaper in the long run.

In this article, Aaron explains how the economics of clean code are changing: code generation gets cheaper, while maintenance is the real cost.

You’ll also learn why clarity, structure, and ownership matter more in AI-assisted workflows.

https://t.co/HUxYGOvRoz

[PIERRE GASLY 🇫🇷 @PierreGASLY]

First ever F1 pole position! 🙏❤️

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

@heyyyyyieeee Option B: query params allow for smooth integration with frontend UI's & u do get to handle routing efficiently

[Mihail Eric @mihail_eric]

I’m excited to finally announce the newest edition my Stanford course 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿. It has been 9 months in the making.

Last November, with the release of Claude Opus 4.5, coding agents experienced a step function improvement in capability. We all felt it. The LLMs were more powerful, could reason for longer, solve harder tasks.

This year’s iteration of my course reflects the 2026 metamorphosis of software engineering.

My core belief is simple: AI-native developers of the LLM era are going to become the most important members of any software organization. I have designed my course to train this next generation of engineers.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱

First, 85% of my Fall 2025 class material is being thrown out. The Fall 2026 syllabus reflects the core capabilities AI-native engineers must have: agent skills, advanced context engineering, MCP portals, agent-ready codebase principles, agentic code review, security, parallelizing background agents, software factories, and more.

Second, I am going to teach my students how to have software taste. Every student will be required to ship pull requests to production-grade, real-world codebases. The course is collaborating with the top open-source AI repos who will offer support and mentorship to students on how to meaningfully contribute to their projects.

This has never been done before in any university course so I am incredibly grateful to our OSS Partners: @browserbase, @HeyGen, @CopilotKit, @semgrep, @OpenHandsDev, @milvusio, @marimo_io, Pi, @crewAIInc, @warpdotdev, @vercel, @cmux, @arizeai, @UnslothAI, and @anyscalecompute.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲

I’m fortunate to again have AI software engineering leaders and founders as guest speakers to share their learnings from building top coding agent products. Thank you to @leerob from @cursor_ai, @bcherny of @claudeai code, @EnoReyes of @FactoryAI, @silasalberti of @cognition, @0xine of @semgrep, Rajesh Bhatia of @Cloudflare , @amasad of @Replit, and @eladgil.

All resources will be available online. All classes will be available to the public.

9/22 on Stanford campus. See you in class. 

https://t.co/wTokHyUMsz

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

@stiffla3 @nypost There's always one lumpen, u better be a bot.

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

@weskambale I bet my college professor is still teaching this to this day, He had us writing Dijkstra’s algorithm on paper. No practical tests on graph theory 😅

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

Secure networking starts with understanding how traffic is managed.

In this article, @manishmshiva explains what proxies and reverse proxies do and when to use each one.

He covers privacy, caching, load balancing, and protection against common threats.

https://t.co/L6qUXUk15T

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

Healthcare apps need to be reliable, scalable, and secure.

That’s why many systems use microservices and REST APIs to handle different responsibilities.

In this tutorial, Gopinath shows you how to design and build APIs for healthcare portals step by step.

https://t.co/g3BBJpay5m

[Dan Garfield @todaywasawesome]

Linux is just a unix clone.

Tailscale is just a nice UI for wireguard.

Android is just linux.

Cloudflare is just a CDN.

Github is just a wrapper for git.

AI is just stolen books.

Omarchy is just Arch + dotfiles.

Maybe there's a lot of value in being *just* something.

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

@donakatukunda 🫡

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

Once you've built some software, you want to get people to use it. And this can be the hard part.

In this article, George explains how to attract users, optimize your funnel, and improve conversions.

You'll learn practical strategies for product marketing, analytics, onboarding, SEO, content, and choosing the right distribution channels, too.

https://t.co/aPAvcMr4gj

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

In 1996, artist Larry Ewing designed Tux, "a slightly overweight penguin sitting down after a great meal," for a Linux logo contest. It didn't win, but it won the internet: Linux got its mascot.

#Linux35

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Being curious and excited can take you far, especially over the long arc of a life. The person who is a voracious lifelong learner will figure it out eventually. A strong reader with a healthy dose of curiosity and a willingness to try things is hard to stop.

[sysxplore @sysxplore]

A rare video of Linus Torvalds presenting Linux kernel 1.0 in 1994

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

On September 17, 1991, Linus released Linux 0.01 to a handful of curious users via FTP. No installer, barely a kernel, just ~10,000 lines of code that would grow into the OS running most of the internet.

https://t.co/csBt6jczop

#Linux35

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

OAuth 2.0 is a framework that gives apps limited access to your data without sharing credentials.

But the flow can be confusing at first.

Here, @ashutoshkrris covers OAuth 2.0 from the ground up, including, clients, tokens, grant types, and secure auth flows.

https://t.co/JOIKMspl2o

[Conrad Mugisha @conradmugisha]

@AnitaKomukama @beewol Too woke.

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

🐧 One of open source's most influential voices is joining #OSSummit Korea!

Hear from Greg Kroah-Hartman, #Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow at The Linux Foundation, in his keynote on August 11-12 in Seoul.

🎤 Talk: https://t.co/CNQyPeMooY
📅 Schedule: https://t.co/WIAzGWxmpb
🎟️ Register: https://t.co/L9oMPfEucv