Blog Posts

• On LLM Spirits and 'Completely New Skills'
  July 3, 2025
  Reflections on Karpathy's software 3.0, the nature of skills in the AI era, and what it means to be an engineer when LLMs become human spirits
• Why Large Context in LLMs Doesnt Save You From Hallucinations
  June 25, 2025
  A look at the main technical problems, plus a couple of small tips on how to work with conversation history and what to measure
• Why Augmented Intelligence?
  May 27, 2025
  Explaining my interpretation of the AI abbreviation, why it is important for me to primarily talk about Augmented, not Artificial Intelligence
• Fundamentals of Modeling in Ontological Work
  April 24, 2025
  Trying to understand once more what a model is, and what an ontology is
• Productivity through primary metrics: how to finally understand where your time goes
  April 15, 2025
  A deep dive into how to break free from the dopamine matrix and so-called procrastination
• AI Works While I'm in the Shower
  April 15, 2025
  A short note about the present and future.
• Attention, We Have a Gap!
  March 17, 2025
  Continuing the discussion about the importance of recognizing the gap between reality and subjective perceptions
• Distinguishing Models and the Physical World
  March 12, 2025
  Have you ever wondered what distinguishes a novice from a master?
• Fundamental Mastery
  March 8, 2025
  Have you ever wondered what distinguishes a novice from a master?
• Engineering Habits: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth
  November 20, 2024
  It is all in your head.
• The global state is not a Monster
  November 2, 2024
  Every public voice of IT keeps saying that the global stat is bad thing. It is far from being true.
• Embedding Design Into Code
  October 14, 2024
  Project abstractions can be implemented in code, but not fully expressed only by it.
• Pain and Pleasure of Debugging
  September 19, 2024
  Don't play around with the debugger
• All-consuming pitfall
  September 6, 2024
  Only a Sith deals in absolutes
• Being Precious
  August 26, 2024
  Such a funny delusion.
• The Wisdom of Avoiding Conditional Statements
  August 11, 2024
  Get rid of this IF/ELSE trees already!
• Information Redundancy: Not Bad, Quite the Opposite
  July 31, 2024
  More data representations for better.
• What the heck is homomorphism?
  May 19, 2024
  Be careful, there’s no way back
• What is Abstraction?
  May 7, 2024
  Such a delusional topic.
• Concentration
  April 23, 2024
  No description for this, read the post!
• I have tried to love Python
  April 17, 2024
  And I failed.
• Changing the Blog's Flight Direction
  April 7, 2024
  Fight even if tired.
• Type-Oriented Programming
  March 20, 2024
  Short note on very interesting thing.
• HighLoad Saga. Part Three: Transaction Processing and Analytics
  March 5, 2024
  What about storing it by... columns?
• HighLoad Saga. Part Two, Chapter 2: Data Storage and Processing Subsystems
  February 25, 2024
  Key aspects of data storage subsystems
• The Zen of Dependencies
  February 17, 2024
  I don't mean to harm anyone here.
• HighLoad Saga. Part Two, Chapter 1: Storing the Data
  February 9, 2024
  No description for this, read the post!
• Hack in Declarative Model - Part 3
  February 1, 2024
  Exploring the Rabbit Hole of Recursiveness
• HighLoad Saga. Part One: The Fundamentals
  January 31, 2024
  The first of the HighLoad Saga series.
• The Essence of Error Theory
  January 25, 2024
  About the main perspectives and approaches in defensive programming
• Pitfalls in software design reasoning
  December 14, 2023
  Few conrintuitive things.
• You do not need TDD. Only if...
  December 6, 2023
  A bit "higher" way of looking at Test-Driven Development.
• Currying
  December 1, 2023
  Quick dive into function programming trick.
• Serious talks about API Versioning
  November 28, 2023
  Closer look on the theory of REST API versioning.
• Hack in Declarative Model - Part 2
  November 24, 2023
  Diving deeper, meet recursion.
• Designing Effective REST APIs: A Comprehensive overview
  November 21, 2023
  Some info about REST Apis and their development process.
• The Value of API Gateway: When Does It Shine?
  November 15, 2023
  When to utilize an API Gateway, understand the features and values it provides, and determine situations where it may not be necessary.
• General Techniques for Documenting Systems
  November 9, 2023
  A look at the practices we have in software engineering that help express and understand the system arch.
• Your own static site, today and for free!
  November 6, 2023
  Create your static site, easy and free for one evening!
• So what is Design Patterns?
  October 14, 2023
  Let's talk about design patterns and the reasons for their existence.
• Hack in Declarative Model - Part 1
  October 3, 2023
  The first look at declarative programming paradigm.
• Python's Concurrency
  October 2, 2023
  Do it FASTER!
• Immutability is The Key
  September 29, 2023
  Few words about Immutability
• Debugging Python Code
  September 26, 2023
  The orthodox way to do it.
• Bullshit Of Self-Documenting Code
  September 25, 2023
  They are smart, but even smart people still people...
• Levels Of Reasoning About Software
  September 25, 2023
  Tough staff, or – how to think about software systems.
• Hack in Fundamentals
  January 30, 2022
  Scientific look at programming. Concurrency, atomicity and something else.
• Algorithms Complexity
  January 22, 2022
  How to properly think about a program, what is time complexity, and what is "Big O" notation? Let's delve into it.