Why I’m Engineering My FIRE with Python — A Manifesto

Why I’m Engineering My FIRE with Python I started coding in December 2025. Three months later, I’d built over 100 applications. One of them — a patent search engine over 3.5 million US patents in a 74GB SQLite database — got 400+ upvotes on Reddit. Now I’m applying the same engineering mindset to something more personal: designing my financial independence with code. This isn’t about stock picks. This is about building systems. The Question Nobody Asks Every corporation has a CFO. Every bank has an ALM (Asset-Liability Management) desk. They stress-test their balance sheets quarterly. They model worst-case scenarios. They maintain credit facilities they may never use. But individuals? We track our assets — maybe in a spreadsheet if we’re diligent — and call it financial planning. That’s half the picture. It’s like monitoring CPU usage but ignoring memory leaks. Where is the liability side? Rent is a liability. Education costs are liabilities. Your monthly living expenses are liabilitie