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Context Engineering: Why Less Context Makes Better Agents
Context engineering explained: why long-running AI agents suffer context rot, what 2026 research shows about pruning and compaction, plus a Python demo.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Go CLI Frameworks in 2026: Cobra vs urfave/cli vs Bubble Tea
Go CLI framework showdown for 2026: Cobra vs urfave/cli vs Bubble Tea. Real code, boilerplate counts, and when to reach for each, after building all three.
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.
Modern Go in 2026: New Language Features, Faster Runtime, and Where It Wins
Python Lazy Imports (PEP 810): The Startup Speedup, Benchmarked
EU AI Act Delayed to 2027: What Developers Need to Know
Kimi K3 Review: The 2.8T Open Model That Beats Claude on Paper
Kimi K3 review after a week on real code: Moonshot's 2.8T open-weight model tops benchmarks at a third of Claude's price, but it's slow and hallucinates.
Software Engineer Salary in Europe 2026: What You Actually Earn
Software engineer salary in Europe for 2026, country by country: from €120K in Zurich to €30K in Bucharest, and why net pay beats the US gap you'd expect.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
28 jul
tutorials
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
24 jul
comparisons
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
27 jul
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AI dev tools and models, after real use
22 jul
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
23 jul
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language deep-dives, idioms, the traps that bite
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.