konovalov-nk

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by konovalov-nk 1mo ago
To give you a bit more context: - https://funfun.email/p/return-to-fun This is what inspired me to write this. Well, aside from everything that happened in the past 5 months. Thank you for reading. Thank you for unders
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The Ultimate Dream(blog.br11k.dev)
1 points by konovalov-nk 1mo ago|1 comments
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by konovalov-nk 2mo ago
> what will the future look like, with sophisticated AI agents smart enough to hack into corporate systems? "Ignorance is bliss" (c) Matrix Oh, sweet-sweet ignorance. About 4 weeks ago I've found SSRF and possible RCE on a
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by konovalov-nk 3mo ago
Yeah, you need actual models to understand what is going on. Basically, when I was using my first version of Coherence to write down what system does on lowest level I found myself imagining in my head database records. And this is exhausti
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by konovalov-nk 3mo ago
GUI is just sequence of events (mouseclicks, scrolls, keypresses) on top of semantic tree (if we can call div class soup as "semantics"). But we can record it since long time ago and simply compress/remove noise. TUI is bette
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by konovalov-nk 3mo ago
I've been thinking about this as well. To me this is optimization problem. How can we solve a problem if we don't understand it? Understanding takes a lot of effort exactly because our minds are wandering through useless context a
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
Well, don't automate your thinking ;) If you can do this then yes we'll transition to AGI/ASI. But thinking (and understanding) is still largely human.
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
Once I did all of that for what I'm doing (I'm just a web dev...), it turned into a rabbit hole so deep I am now questioning reality itself I'm not kidding though. I had a mental breakdown multiple times throughout 2 months w
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
Lemme give you more signal than this how to automate yourself. 1. Write down everything you do in text. Don't skip any details: thoughts, why, how, who, what, and so on 2. Add details. More details. Even more details. 3. You will see s
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
I had a few aha moments recently while thinking about this problem (automating easy parts and leaving "hard parts" unsolved). 1. Understanding the world is the bottleneck to thinking. 2. The world is an unbounded system with unpre
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
Can we just delete LinkedIn at this point? I can't reach out anyone except few people. My estimation is that out of 100 interactions only 2-3 are genuine humans. Everything else is automated. Not to mention we had this post yesterday:
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
I wonder if I should submit this to HN: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-data-being-stolen-right-... Because there's a massive bot network operating on LinkedIn right now... and I'm tired of interacting wi
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
I'm exhausted seeing this same mistake happen over and over and over. Why nobody tries to write a spec from existing code is just crazy to me. The git test suite is a behavioral spec. But at the same time it is not, why? It's arch
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Don't mop the floor. Fix the leaky faucet(blog.br11k.dev)
2 points by konovalov-nk 4mo ago|1 comments
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by konovalov-nk 4mo ago
I do apologize for a bit of advertising of OSS project that I mention in the article (I think it is relevant because I'm tryna fix one of the largest pains today, at least for myself) but the main point I wanted to share/discuss i
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
Yeah the single file SYSTEM.md would not scale. When you are working on something, you don't load entire context of entire app in your head, only "minimal viable context" (MVC). In my ERD this is a record in the Spec table. A
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
I'm wondering if we're working on the same thing. If you haven't seen my posts I suggest to look through them. In short: 1. stacked-commits automation (cannot skip writing context/why/verify sections) 2. product spe
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
Pivot to Erlang is real! I'm kidding of course but feels like the time has come to look closely into Erlang ecosystem and OTP. There's even agentic framework for this: https://jido.run/blog/jido-2-0-is-here I
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
You're absolutely right! (c) I'm kidding. But yes, I explicitly didn't model it yet. The bigger vision is there's a reason for Spec to exist, right? And that would be Outcome. > "We observed that users share 100+
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
My bad. Well, it's Excalidraw, and you can download png / svg from it. Here's image you can open on the phone https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HGjHvSsWIAAkhHL?format=jpg&name=... I also did a post explain
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
This is my current visualization of the problem: https://excalidraw.com/#json=y1fSSx2z8-0nFs7CDnqhp,d9Di8JdGU... I think the "cognitive bottlenecks" in software engineering live between artifacts, where code is si
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
Recently I stumbled upon this crazy thing: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/9676#issuecomme... `ripgrep` tool call on opencode added `--follow` override, which allowed to traverse symlinks. And yo
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
Yeah it feels like it but I did my research! I've been stuck with this problem for 10+ years now. I'm tired I'm exhausted. Every single time I come to new company, nobody writes spec and expects you to magically understand ho
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
This is mostly solved just by writing proper commit messages: https://blog.br11k.dev/2026-03-23-code-review-bottleneck-par... Much more interesting part is how exactly you map Context/Why/Verify to a product spec
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
To me all of these are symptoms of the problem that I outlined in my recent blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606192 and it touches in detail what exactly commit standards should be, and even how to automate
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Optimizing for Understanding(blog.br11k.dev)
2 points by konovalov-nk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by konovalov-nk 6mo ago
... Curtain rises. A technical interview at a company that uses Verilog. Near future. A candidate walks in. Big Factorio fan. The interviewer smiles and gestures toward a gaming PC. Factorio is already running. The candidate squints. "
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by konovalov-nk 1y ago
Code is a technical specification and could be any programming language, markup, terraform files, configuration, whatever. Product Spec is written in English and in a such way that everybody can understand it without technical knowledge. Be
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by konovalov-nk 1y ago
Nobody mentioned Joel Spolsky's October 2nd, 2000 article, so I'll start: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona... Code is not a bottleneck. Specs are. How the software is sup
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by konovalov-nk 1y ago
In general there aren't really models that can understand nuances of your speech yet. Gemini 2.5 voice mode changed that only recently and I think it can understand emotions but I'm not sure if it can detect things like accent and

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