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AI Layoffs 2026: 185K Jobs Cut, but Gartner Says It's Not Working
185K tech workers cut in 2026, 1,115 per day. Gartner surveyed 350 execs and found zero ROI correlation. Deutsche Bank calls it AI redundancy washing.
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software in 2026.
GLM-5.2 Review: 753B Open-Weight Model That Undercuts GPT-5.5
GLM-5.2 scores 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro vs GPT-5.5's 58.6, ships under MIT, and costs $1.40/M input tokens. Benchmarks, pricing, and the China data question.
LiteLLM Vulnerability: 6 CVEs, a Supply Chain Attack, and the Fixes
LiteLLM has been hit by RCE, SQL injection, privilege escalation, and a PyPI supply chain attack in 2026. Here's every CVE, who's affected, and how to fix it.
Rust vs Go in 2026: Benchmarks, Salary, and When Each Wins
Go 1.26 Tutorial: Green Tea GC, SIMD, and 8 Features Worth Knowing
Claude Code Pro vs Max: Real Costs After the June 15 Billing Change
GPT-5.5 Review After Seven Weeks: Where It Beats Claude and Where It Doesn't
GPT-5.5 hits 82.7% on Terminal-Bench and uses 72% fewer tokens than Claude — but loses SWE-Bench Pro to Opus 4.7. Seven weeks of real agentic use, reviewed.
Claude Fable 5 Review: 80% SWE-Bench Pro, but Read the Fine Print
Claude Fable 5 hits 80.3% SWE-bench Pro and 29.3% FrontierCode Diamond. It also costs 2x Opus 4.8, retains your data 30 days, and silently falls back.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
17 jun
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
16 jun
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AI dev tools and models, after real use
18 jun
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
22 jun
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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.