reviews
AI Agent Guardrails That Work: 4 Production Wipes, 4 Fixes
AI agent guardrails from 4 real production wipes — PocketOS, Replit, Amazon. Scoped tokens, destructive-action gates, isolated backups, plan-first mode.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Big Tech Is Trading 100K Jobs for $725B in AI Infrastructure
$725B in AI capex, 100K+ layoffs, and 275K unfilled AI roles. The numbers behind big tech's 2026 human-to-GPU trade — and what it means for your career.
MarkItDown vs Docling vs Marker: PDF to Markdown for LLMs
Three open-source PDF-to-Markdown tools for RAG and LLM pipelines, tested on real documents. Speed, table fidelity, install pain, and which one to pick.
GPT-5.4 vs Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro for Coding (May 2026)
FastMCP in Python: Build a Real MCP Server (2026 Guide)
Python t-strings (PEP 750): A Practical Tutorial With Real Examples
AI Brain Fry: What BCG Found in 1,488 Workers
AI brain fry hit 14% of AI-using workers in the BCG-Harvard study. Devs near the top, behind marketing and HR. Productivity drops once you cross 4 tools.
AsyncTLS: 4.7x Faster Long-Context LLM Inference With Two-Level Sparse Attention
AsyncTLS sparse attention fuses block filtering, token selection, and async KV cache offloading for 1.3-4.7x throughput gains at 48k-96k token contexts.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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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.