Maxim Krizhanovski
@darhazer.bsky.social
I write about software engineering, management and AI. I read much more than that. Creator of https://chess-upgraded.com
“productivity is now outrunning comprehension” - a great article on the dopamine effect of AI and why productivity is not translated into value: newsletter.productdriven.com/p/developers...
Developers are Turning Into AI Vampires. I’m One of Them.
Inside the addictive, high-adrenaline loop of running AI agents, and the cost of forgetting to touch grass.
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One under appreciated effect of the #Al coding assistants: it makes engineering work more resilient to interruptions. The gap between meetings is enough to craft instruction for the AI, and when you lose context due to interruption - you can read it back from what you wrote to the agent
If you have tried chess-upgraded.com and found the computer too weak / doing random, illogical moves… well the logs were saying that it fails to execute the search and fallbacks to a random move, but I wasn’t watching the logs 😅 Anyway, it’s fixed now
Chess Upgraded — chess variants built as real games
We build chess variants as real, polished, open-source games. Play Chess Upgraded: RPG edition (build pieces and level them up), Chess Upgraded (captures upgrade pieces), or Cannibal Chess (captures t...
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#TIL AI agents provide hooks that you can use to run scripts after specific events (e.g. instead of asking the agent to run tests you just run them or even check the coverage of the changes and feed back to the agent) evilmartians.com/chronicles/s...
Stop writing rules in AGENTS.md: use agent hooks and nano-staged instead—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Move LLM safeguards out of AGENTS.md: how agent hooks plus nano-staged run linters on changed files only, cut tokens, and tighten the agent's feedback loop
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So I did a #chess based game in which you start with only 3 pawns, controlling territory gives you material points to build more pieces, capturing pieces gives experience which allows upgrades, and captured pieces can be rebuild again play online at chess-upgraded.com/chess-rpg
Chess Upgraded: RPG edition — build your army, level it up, checkmate
Chess Upgraded: RPG edition is a free browser chess variant. Each side opens with kings and three pawns; earn material from the territory you hold, build pieces back onto their home squares, and spend...
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Cannibal #chess turned out to be a quite fun game. Each capture changes the capturing piece (into the captured one, regardless whether that’s an upgrade or downgrade) and changes the balance. You can play it online at chess-upgraded.com/cannibal-chess
Cannibal Chess — the chess variant where every capture transforms your piece
Cannibal Chess is a free browser chess variant where a capturing piece takes on the movement of the piece it captured. Rooks become knights, kings stay royal — identities shift every move.
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Pair programming? How about pair reviewing. Walking over a PR with another engineer is under rated and might be just what you need when dealing with AI generated code
There is a gap between executives’ perception of AI and the perception of everyone else working in the company, and that gap reveals some of the real constraints. What matter is clarity, speed of decision and alignment. www.linkedin.com/posts/darhaz...
There is a gap between executives’ perception of AI and the perception of everyone else working in the company, and that gap reveals some of the real constraints. What matter is clarity, speed of… | ...
There is a gap between executives’ perception of AI and the perception of everyone else working in the company, and that gap reveals some of the real constraints. What matter is clarity, speed of dec...
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With the raise of Al, it's important to remember than direction is more important than speed. If Al helps you find the right direction faster - great, use it. That's why prototyping with Al is so powerful.
I’ve started chess-upgraded with a simple idea. Since then I’ve learned a lot about chess and discovered the world of chess variants. It’s like entering a multi verse
Over the weekend I’ve started a game - chess with upgradable pieces. It’s incredible how easy is to start things with the help of AI code assistants. Even more incredible is how much of that is possible thanks to open source. Still early days, but would love your feedback chess-upgraded.com
Chess
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Disappointment is a function of expectation - set it wrong, and even good can feel bad - www.linkedin.com/posts/bokriz...
Why Looking Premium Isn’t Enough I recently visited the Natural History Museum in Vienna and had an experience that stayed with me, not because of the exhibits, but because of lunch. If you don’t… |...
Why Looking Premium Isn’t Enough I recently visited the Natural History Museum in Vienna and had an experience that stayed with me, not because of the exhibits, but because of lunch. If you don’t br...
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“To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance. To simplify after you understand the details is genius” - James Clear
#TIL Amara’s law: people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their long-term effects
“The answers you seek are in the silence you are avoiding”
I wonder if AI adoption will teach people anything about systems and constraints. It can give insane productivity boost to a single engineer, yet the larger the organisation, the smaller the overall gain.
Did you know a river could have legal rights? You can read more about Unexpected Things that are People here - bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected...
Unexpected Things that are People
panlegal expressions of personhood
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One of the best analysis of the AI era I’ve read lately www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...
AI's Dial-Up Era
It is 1995.
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People are afraid AI will destroy humanity. It will. But not by some sort of super intelligence. Just by over consumption.
Reverse impostor syndrome - how many of you are suffering from that? open.substack.com/pub/weskao/p...
Reverse impostor syndrome
Imposter syndrome is other people thinking you’re good, but you don’t believe it yourself. Reverse imposter syndrome is knowing you are good, but others don’t see it from the outside.
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People forget that sorting (as in SQL order by or Ruby sort_by) is not stable. Whenever you sort by a field that may contain the same value, and you need a stable order, you need a secondary sorting key that’s unique
One of the reasons I'm skeptical about the idea that AI "productivity" will lead to out-competing other companies is contained in this post. AI encourages adding adding adding adding (I just read a post excited about generating 150K lines of code in a weekend!!!), but "adding new stuff" != value
Mikal Lewis@mikal-el.com · last yr.Product teams often assume the next feature will unlock success. But when every team depends on what’s not yet built, momentum stalls. I call this N+1itis. The strongest teams know: if you can’t win with one less feature, you can’t win with one more.
“people who believe we achieved AGI just failed Turing test on their side” - Naval Ravikant m.youtube.com/watch?v=KyfU...
44 Harsh Truths About The Game Of Life - Naval Ravikant (4K)
YouTube video by Chris Williamson
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“You think you want the paradise of nothing ever being asked of you, but it turns out to be the hell of nobody ever needing you.” - DHH (from the post world.hey.com/dhh/the-pare... )
The parental dead end of consent morality
Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever mi...
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Interesting to see more and more languages adopting the pipeline operator and pattern matching - dev.to/maxprilutski...
Upcoming JavaScript Features You Should Know About
After 20 years of writing JavaScript, I've seen many changes - from callback hell to async/await. But...
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#til Chrome allows to persist JavaScript overrides between page reloads - til.hashrocket.com/posts/n4pgka...
Today I Learned
TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.
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OK I read it. It's clearly provocative but sounds like written in good faith. It's sense of humor is probably not for everybody (I enjoyed it 😛) but if you ignore it, and extract the essence, then it's just the truth. fly.io/blog/youre-a...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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Not sure how I feel about it, but obviously comes with the next #Rails
Mike Perham :sidekiq:@getajobmike.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · last yr.Was there any public RFC or design process behind the Active Job Continuations API? There's absolutely no discussion on the Github PR. https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/55127
