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guido mauro curcio

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years’ experience building scalable backends and intuitive interfaces; from buenos aires, argentina.

career

writings

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Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — Draft

How to show up—and be said right—in AI answers; metrics and playbook.

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prompt, context, and spec engineering

From prompts to contracts—system prompts, schemas, MCP tools, and testable specs.

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react props, state, and diffing, explained

From HTML parsing to a tiny React in ~120 lines — DOM cost, diffing, hooks, lifecycle.

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the expressiveness of programming languages

Considerations for building a custom language optimized for AI collaboration.

books & reading list

Cover of The Beginning of Infinity

The Beginning of Infinity

by David Deutsch

An exploration of why good explanations drive open-ended human progress.

Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

by Martin Kleppmann

Foundations of scalable, fault‑tolerant data systems in the real world.

Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

by H. Abelson & G. J. Sussman

The classic 'Wizard Book' on abstraction, metalinguistic recursion and Scheme.

Cover of The Feynman Lectures on Physics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

by R. P. Feynman et al.

Timeless, intuitive exposition of mechanics, EM and quantum theory.

Cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

From Morse to microprocessors—how information becomes computation.

Cover of Gödel’s Proof

Gödel’s Proof

by E. Nagel & J. R. Newman

Accessible guide to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and implications.

Cover of The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language

by B. W. Kernighan & D. M. Ritchie

The definitive, concise tutorial and reference from C’s creators.

Cover of Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

by Donella H. Meadows

Feedback loops, leverage points and mental models for complex systems.

Cover of Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett

Thought‑experiments that clarify minds, evolution and AI.

Cover of Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Clear thinking, cognitive bias and Bayesian reasoning—LessWrong's greatest hits.

Cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

A sweeping narrative of human history from the Stone Age to today.

Cover of The Big Picture

The Big Picture

by Sean Carroll

Origins of life, meaning and the universe from a physicist's perspective.

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas Hofstadter

Interwoven explorations of math, art and music around self-reference and meaning.

Cover of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

by A. Doxiadis & C. Papadimitriou

Graphic novel on Russell's quest for the foundations of mathematics.

Cover of A Cultural History of Physics

A Cultural History of Physics

by Károly Simonyi

How physics shaped—and was shaped by—culture across centuries.

Cover of UNSONG

UNSONG

by Scott Alexander

Jewish mysticism, puns and a world running on divine names.

Cover of Crafting Interpreters

Crafting Interpreters

by Robert Nystrom

Hands-on guide to building a language: tree-walk and bytecode VM.

Cover of The Black Swan

The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

On rare, high-impact events and our narratives after the fact.

Cover of Inadequate Equilibria

Inadequate Equilibria

by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Why good ideas languish and how institutions get stuck.

connect

reach me at officecurcioguido@gmail.com