How to lose your folder: the dangers of storing data in the file system
The Incident A few days ago, we upgraded our server from one type of storage to another. Suddenly, most of our data disappeared from view. It still existed on disk, […]
Can Comrade Claude code in an Ancient Soviet Language?
Can an LLM code in a language it was not trained for? Spoiler: kind of. It is not very fast and not very efficient, but if you give the LLM […]
Daylight savings time is evil
Daylight Savings Time is evil and should be outlawed (Putin’s Russia has already done that! 🙂 ). I am building directing Cursor to build a dashboard and it’s really a […]
Vibe coding: code review still required
Another AI/vibe coding battle story which makes me hard to believe it is possible to create reliable products through vibe coding alone without code review. The AI emulates humans too […]
IKriv Certs 1.0 – SSL Cert Expiration Checker
When LinkedIn announced they will no longer support email alerts when the certificate expires, I quickly vibe-coded the solution, but it took me a while to “productionize” it so I […]
Example of LLM confusion over a word with multiple meanings
In our system we can “hide” a user conversation in two ways. There are internal “service” conversations that are technically owned by a user, but are not supposed to be […]
3 Months of Vibe Coding
TL;DR I use a lot of AI-assisted coding now. It is a huge productivity boost, but the agents still do a lot of things wrong and need to be guided […]
Two hour long “C++ is horrible” rant video
I stumbled upon this video on YouTube. It’s a 2-hour rant about how hideous C++ is, presented in a somewhat robotic, probably AI-generated voice. I watched it glued to my […]
Fallback
“Fallback” seems to be the favorite word of AI coding agents, and the bane of my existence lately. To paraphrase one famous quote: “Wenn ich ‘Fallback’ höre … entsichere ich […]
LLMs against semantic drift
Any group of people, development teams included, creates its own mini-language where existing words change meaning and new words are invented. In our case the word was “unattended.” Over a […]