AuthorMaksim Danilchenko
RoleEngineering Lead, inDrive
Cadence3–5 long-form / week

Notes on shipping
software in 2026.

Long-form on AI engineering, dev tools, agentic pipelines, and the parts of indie hacking that survive contact with production.

latest 28.jan.2026 · 10 min

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Software Engineer Job Market 2026: Two Markets, One Title

ML engineer roles up 59% from 2020, general SWE openings down 49%. Dice, CompTIA, and BLS data shows a 2026 market split by AI fluency. Salaries included.

filed under careers tags software-engineer · job-market · ai-jobs 10 min read
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I'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.