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LangGraph vs CrewAI vs OpenAI Agents SDK: The 2026 Verdict
LangGraph vs CrewAI vs OpenAI Agents SDK compared for 2026: architecture, real code, pricing, and which multi-agent framework to pick for production work.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Modern Go in 2026: New Language Features, Faster Runtime, and Where It Wins
A field guide to modern Go in 2026: iterators, generic methods, Green Tea GC, JSON v2, and where Go still beats Rust for real backend and AI agent work.
Python Lazy Imports (PEP 810): The Startup Speedup, Benchmarked
Python lazy imports (PEP 810) land in Python 3.15. I benchmarked boto3, requests and pydantic startup: the real speedup, and how to get most of it today.
EU AI Act Delayed to 2027: What Developers Need to Know
Kimi K3 Review: The 2.8T Open Model That Beats Claude on Paper
Software Engineer Salary in Europe 2026: What You Actually Earn
Go's JSON v2 (encoding/json/v2): Faster, Stricter, and What Breaks
Go's encoding/json/v2 is a reported 2–10x faster at unmarshaling but flips v1 defaults: duplicate keys, nil slices, case matching. How to enable it and migrate.
Nemotron 3: How a Mamba-Transformer Hybrid Runs 1M Tokens
Nemotron 3 swaps most attention layers for Mamba-2 and MoE to reach 1M-token context at 3.3x throughput. Here is how the hybrid architecture actually works.
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13 aprI'm Maksim. By day I lead an engineering team at inDrive. After hours I ship side projects (PageBloom, NotesPilot, MyDevKit, startgaze) and write things up here when I learn something worth keeping.
The blog itself runs on an agentic publishing pipeline I built and rebuilt — a slow-moving experiment in how much of a writer's workflow can be automated without losing the voice. It writes, fact-checks, and refreshes; I edit, decide, and publish.