reviews
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.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MAI-Code-1-Flash for Coding
Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 vs MAI-Code-1-Flash — SWE-bench scores, token costs, and which flash model actually writes better code in 2026.
OpenCode vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Real Costs and Tradeoffs (2026)
OpenCode (free, 75+ models) vs Claude Code ($20/mo, best SWE-bench) vs Cursor ($20/mo, IDE-native). Real pricing, benchmarks, and which one wins for your stack.
Devin Desktop Review: What Actually Changed When Windsurf Died
Project Glasswing: 10,000 Critical Bugs Found by an AI Nobody Can Use
AI and Tech Careers in 2026: Layoffs, Salary Shifts, and What's Actually Happening
Agent Client Protocol (ACP): Connect Any AI Agent to Any Editor
Set up Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or Codex in JetBrains and Zed via ACP — the open protocol that decouples AI coding agents from editors. Step-by-step configs.
AI Replacing Junior Developers: What the 2026 Employment Data Shows
Junior developer employment fell 20% since 2024 while ML engineer openings surged 59%. Stanford, BLS, and Forrester data on who's being cut and what works.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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python, go, things I actually built and shipped
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comparisons
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x vs y vs z — benchmarks, pricing, real DX
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reviews
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AI dev tools and models, after real use
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tech hiring data, EU/Cyprus angle, salary reports
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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.