# Vinicius Brasil

> Small notes on big ideas, code, and a curious life.

Personal site of Vinicius Brasil, a software engineer based in Curitiba, Brazil, building the backbone for agentic AI at CrewAI. Writing on building software, AI, and the curious life around it.

## Posts

- [On asking why](https://vinibrasil.com/on-asking-why.md): What a strange User-Agent string taught me about software, assumptions, and the difference between curiosity and pragmatic critical thinking. (June 1, 2026)
- [How AI is changing my job as a Staff Engineer: Tracer bullets](https://vinibrasil.com/how-ai-is-changing-my-job-tracer-bullets.md): As implementation gets cheaper, integration, validation, restraint, and judgment get more valuable. (May 12, 2026)
- [How I read books better with AI](https://vinibrasil.com/how-i-read-books-better-with-ai.md): Using AI to read deeper, not just faster. (July 13, 2025)
- [On breaking production](https://vinibrasil.com/on-breaking-production.md): Everybody breaks production. What separates good engineers is how they respond. (August 24, 2024)
- [Ruby on Rails and Bauhaus](https://vinibrasil.com/ruby-on-rails-and-bauhaus.md): What an art school from 1919 has to do with a web framework. (August 24, 2024)

## Pages

- [Reading](https://vinibrasil.com/reading.md): books I've read, logged by year, with notes
- [Travel](https://vinibrasil.com/travel.md): places I've been, logged by year

## Optional

- [Full text of every post](https://vinibrasil.com/llms-full.txt): all posts concatenated as Markdown
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