Home Blog Ru ◐ 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.