September 2026 Β· CppCon Β· Talk
Your Next 20 Days of Systems Engineering
My core thesis remains that abstraction is king.
Researcher, author, speaker
Andrei Alexandrescu
Principal Researcher, NVIDIA. Programming languages, generic programming, and the occasional algorithm. Author of Modern C++ Design, C++ Coding Standards, and The D Programming Language.
My core thesis remains that abstraction is king.
TalksRecordings, each with a line worth remembering.
ArticlesProgramming columns, 1998β2010.
ResearchPapers, from GPU task parallelism to language models.
Recent talks
April 2026 Β· ACCU Β· Talk
Software Abstraction in the Age of AI-Generated Code
It is not formal. It is semiformal, for a good definition of semi.
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How to Tame Packs, std::tuple, and the Wily std::integer_sequence
Agents are very bad at creating new idioms. They're very good at using them.