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AI Finds the Holes. Only Your Engineers Can Tell Which Ones Are Real.
AI security tools now find more vulnerabilities than any human can check. Only the engineers being laid off can tell the real ones from the noise.
Jul 2
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Denis Stetskov
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June 2026
Green All the Way Down
AI is a multiplier for engineering culture. With it, the work compounds; without it, the rot does, and the dashboard reports green right up to the…
Jun 30
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Denis Stetskov
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Europe Runs at Catastrophic Yield
France logged around 1,000 heat deaths while a cheap air conditioner stays banned by facade rules. The same reflex stopped Europe building anything new.
Jun 28
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Denis Stetskov
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The Cost of Reading Everyone Just Hit Zero
Age verification and AI chat logs are converging into one surveillance chain. The only thing that ever protected you was the cost of reading you. It's…
Jun 25
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Denis Stetskov
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The Slot Machine That Codes
A Claude Code sub-agent loop burned 4M tokens in 5 minutes and stayed open as a CRITICAL bug. The economics behind "stop prompting, write loops," and…
Jun 23
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Denis Stetskov
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Nobody Answers for the Lie They Sold
Tech CEOs called engineers obsolete, told kids not to code, promised the world. None of it landed, none of them paid. A view from the hiring side of the…
Jun 18
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Denis Stetskov
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When Your Vendor Becomes Your Competitor: AI’s $5.5B Confession
OpenAI launched a $4B consulting company. Anthropic launched a $1.5B JV. Both sell human supervision for their own models to enterprises that can't…
Jun 16
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Denis Stetskov
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Europe Regulated Itself Out of the AI Race
Meta's €1.2B fine: three days of revenue. Aleph Alpha's $500M: a dead company. Same rules. Now the US restricts frontier AI to Americans only.
Jun 13
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Denis Stetskov
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Anthropic Kept Every Promise It Could Afford
Anthropic made one binding safety promise in 2023 and removed it the month it got expensive. The chronology, from $4 billion to a $965 billion IPO
Jun 9
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Denis Stetskov
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Nobody Won the Token Race
Uber burned its AI budget in four months chasing token leaderboards, then capped engineers at $1,500. We never hit a limit. The plan is the variable
Jun 3
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Denis Stetskov
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May 2026
Honk Is Not Magic. It’s 15 Years of Infrastructure With the Context Stripped Out.
Spotify told investors 99% of engineers use AI weekly. Their engineering blog tells a different story. Five stages, four months, and numbers that only…
May 27
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Denis Stetskov
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The $50 Billion Utility
Cursor spent $3 billion to stop losing money on every user. OpenAI won't break even until 2030. AI companies are valued like software but run like…
May 26
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Denis Stetskov
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