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Boris Vulikh

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<p>Software geek and amateur photographer. 
Senior Software Engineer
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    The personal Jevon&amp;#39;s paradox: despite using AI to gain productivity, we just end up with more work to do. It’s really no different from when computers and the Internet were introduced - just more extreme. This brings the problem back to us. It&amp;#39;s our responsibility to set the limits.

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    The thing that most annoys me with #Claude, it how brittle and unreliable this service is.

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    I&amp;#39;ve tried to install Windows 11 on a small PC. This is a horrible experience. I&amp;#39;ve installed Windows countless times a decade ago, installed various Linux distributions. Why on earth do I need drivers to install an OS on a NVMe drive? 🤦 Why getting these drivers such a pain? 🤦 Why loading these drivers such a pain? 🤦‍♂️ Why package drivers archive as an executable and not a simple ZIP file? 🤦‍♂️ This shows a total lack of empathy towards the user.

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    We have too much of the Internet dependent on too few companies. It&amp;#39;s not that these companies are necessary bad, but more technological diversity would make the Internet much more healthy and resilient. #aws #cloudFlare

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    &amp;quot;you&amp;#39;re not hiring for roles anymore. you&amp;#39;re hiring for breadth + depth, taste, systems thinking, learning velocity. 5 people who can work across code/design/product beat 20 specialists coordinating handoffs.&amp;quot; - Ryo Lu on X. I can strongly relate to this. In my experience, when I was working across domains, I could do a task alone in 2 weeks that would take two engineers 4 weeks to complete. The coordination, hand-offs and cross domain language barrier costs ar...

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    I&amp;#39;ve helped my superior to evaluate possible candidates CVs. What struck me, is that so many talented people with rich experience have written their resume so poorly. This is not a rocket science. Read any of the countless posts on the topic, ask a friend or even an LLM for feedback.

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    In this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps Now ex-xAI engineer described the current project there are working on - the human simulator. A tool that is designed to analyze the screen display, make decisions and interact with the computer using the keyboard and mouse signals. The end goal is obvious - retire an entire class of office jobs. While this is a remarkable engineering challenge and accomplishment, none of these folks are thinking about the really difficult and remark...

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    I recently had a choice: read an AI summary in 2 minutes, or grind through complex documentation for 2 hours. I chose the grind. After those hours, something clicked - not just surface understanding, but real comprehension with all the nuances that matter. Our brains need a minimum threshold of effort before they commit to deep learning. AI summaries have their place (speed over depth), but can&amp;#39;t replace the work required for genuine understanding. https://codeinfocus.com/blog/2026-01...

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    RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116484051725139878 I just raised the question whether we should leave Github as well. It is no longer a secure and reliable platform to trust your code with. #gitHub

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    I have recently seen a #bulletjournal that is so beautifully written and illustrated that it should be considered a work of art.

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    AI made it cheap to generate product ideas and ship a beautiful demo of any of them. It didn&amp;#39;t make it any cheaper to turn one into a real spec — the kind that answers what this actually does, who it&amp;#39;s for, what happens at the edges, and what we&amp;#39;re cutting. The bottleneck used to be R&amp;amp;D throughput. Now it sits with whoever has to take the demo and do the unglamorous work of turning it into something an engineering team can build. #productmanagement