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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
Just a couple of days ago, Anthropic released a fairly alarmist statement: the company suggested we should seriously discuss a global slowdown or temporary pause in the development of the most advance…
In recent months I keep seeing the same pattern: someone posts another example where some "vibe coders" used AI to generate a project, left API keys on the frontend, forgot to add authorization, opene…
Continuing the idea from the previous post. Many companies believe that to add agents to their SDLC they first need to completely get rid of legacy, move to microservices, fully implement SRE the way …
AI. What’s next? Up until around December, using AI in development basically meant: prompt -> copy some code -> paste -> tweak -> repeat. Now this already feels outdated and clumsy. Becaus…
As a tax resident of an EU country who files my own returns, today is my quarterly 'Tax Day'. On this day I set aside a few hours to file social security reports, my quarterly VAT return, and review t…
I have not written anything about Saylify for a long time, even though I planned to launch in January. Unfortunately, life likes to throw in challenges you can drown in. But that is not the only issue…
TL;DR I wrote a manifesto-style essay about a memory model for LLMs that is as close as possible to human memory and lets the system build a relationship history and long‑term memory of the user. If y…
Now we are finally fucking talking. Not all that crap like "internal policies", "no explanation needed", "just because".1Office are the first who wrote it plainly: "Because you are a citizen of the Ru…
Shit happens. Picture this: you are working on your side project and pouring a ton of time into it because you genuinely believe you are solving a real problem for a lot of people. At some point you r…
What could be better than summing up the existential results of the year? In fact, a lot of things (almost everything). But I honestly believe that sometimes, to actually change something, you have to…
In IT, these two terms have become more than just standard requirements in any DevOps/SRE job listing. They are more like the clichéd ‘stress resistance’ in a résumé. At the same time, the vast majori…
The sunk cost trap We often pour time, money, and energy into something and, even when there is no real result, we cannot walk away because ‘so much has already been invested’. This is a classic cogni…
Two kinds of startups When you spin inside a certain field long enough, you start to forget that some concepts and terms are not obvious to people around you. That happened to me with the term 'startu…
Less is more. It is a really overused phrase that has become a cliché, yet it still has not lost its relevance. At some point, 'less is more' was exactly what the mobile‑first approach was about: firs…
Another useful side of tracking exchange rates in real time is that I learn about world events without reading the news. I do not have time to read the media right now, but in the evening before bed I…
All right, I’ll still write a bit about the 2025 results, but for now only about Fullyst. Some stats: 1. Subscriber growth for the Fullyst news channel: +716 people. And this is a channel with news on…