reviews
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.
Notes on shipping
software in 2026.
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
Rust vs Go compared with real benchmarks, salary data, and production use cases. Go for 80% of backends, Rust for the 20% where latency and memory matter.
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
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.
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.
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papers, but readable — algorithms, AI, systems
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16 jun
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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.