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 26.jan.2026 · 11 min

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Will AI Replace Software Engineers? SignalFire's 80M-Company Study Says No

SignalFire tracked 80M+ companies: engineers are 55% of Big Tech hires, attrition is 9%, front-end roles dropped 25%. The real data on AI and dev jobs.

filed under careers tags software-engineer · ai-jobs · tech-careers 11 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.