Book Cube: 2025, page 1
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 1: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! I'm glad you signed up and read my channel. I hope that it is useful to you, although I usually write about what is interesting to me. For me. 2025 A year passed for me under the sign of AI in software development, developer productivity, reading popular science books and returning to coding paired with AI agents. (open ai codex)Vibe code with tools (lovable) And my ideas for projects that I put off for a long time. Next year I will share the results of these projects with you.
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"Uncle Stepa" New Year's Show (ForKids Category)
"Uncle Stepa" New Year's Show (Rubric ForKids ) Yesterday was on this New Year's show with the kids and our friends and we really enjoyed it and there are a couple of reasons.
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RepoSwarm - Giving AI Agents Architecture Context Across All Your Repos (Category Architecture)
RepoSwarm - Giving AI Agents Architecture Context Across All Your Repos (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report Rebuilding Architectural Context with AI Agents from Roy Osherove, Chief AI Architect at Verbit AI (company90 developers, 12 teams 400+ repositories). Roy has written three books: The Art of Unit Testing, Elastic Leadership and Pipeline Driven. (I'm still working on it, but I'm already talking about it. told). Roy also has an interesting blog, robotpaper.ai, where he documents AI patterns for developers.
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Atomic Heart: A Bright Future (Category SciFi)
Atomic Heart: A Bright Future (Rubric SciFi ) I read this collection of stories about the world of Atomic Heart with great interest. The book is about what the Atomic Heart Union was like before the game began: showcases of utopia, robots in everyday life, a sense of progress “all under control”, where technology does not just help – they become the background of life, the new norm. True, there is a feeling that you are reading the system log right before everything went downhill and the world went crazy.
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The Truth About The AI Bubble (AI column)
The Truth About The AI Bubble (Rubric AI ) Another one. episode The Lightcone podcast from the guys at Y Combinator was about the AI bubble, so I watched it with great interest. The participants discussed the following topics:
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Super Blocks (ForKids Category)
Super Blocks (Rubric ForKids ) Recently came another cool toy from the company Giiker, I have already told about the game.4 in a row in three-dimensional space.” In super blocks, the concept is slightly simpler - you need to collect sounded shapes from the blocks that are included in the kit. Something it resembles Tetris, but the blocks do not fly from top to bottom, but are in a box, and you need to collect not full rows, but a figure of the predicted shape.
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[2/2] Autonomy Is All You Need (Agents column)
\[2/2\] Autonomy Is All You Need (Rubric Agents ) Continue. story About the report by Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit, I would like to share the conclusions that can be useful to engineers from this report.
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[1/2] Autonomy Is All You Need (Agents column)
\[1/2\] Autonomy Is All You Need (Rubric Agents ) I saw an interesting one. report Michele Catasta, president & head of AI at Replit, told a month ago at the AI Engineer conference. Michele previously worked as the head of applied research at Google, and is now responsible for Replit’s AI strategy, which assembles application prototypes from scratch to demos in minutes. Here are the main points of his speech
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The Human Cloud (The economy of the remote) (Category Economics)
The Human Cloud (The economy of the remote) (Rubric Economics ) I read the book The Human Cloud from that time. (21 year)When it was Sber Cloud, not Cloud.ru, and their name flaunts on the cover - because the guys helped in the publication of this book.
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Amp Code: Next generation AI Coding (AI column)
Amp Code: Next generation AI Coding (Rubric AI ) I saw an interesting one. report Beyang Liu, CTO Sourcegraph, about the new Amp Code editor, in which the author says that this is not just “another Copilot”, but an attempt to fundamentally change the way we interact with AI in development. In short: according to the author, we are moving from the phase “AI writes text” to the phase “AI closes the development cycle”. Beyang Liu graduated from Stanford and worked at Google and Palantir.
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[2/2] The state of AI in 2025. Agents, Innovation, and Transformation: Strategies for High Performance Companies (AI column)
\[2/2\] The state of AI in 2025. Agents, Innovation, and Transformation: Strategies for High Performance Companies (Rubric AI ) Finishing. analysis In this report from McKinsey, I couldn't pass up the most interesting part of the study -- comparing conventional companies to high-performance companies. 6Percentage of organizations that have achieved significant AI impact on business These leaders have a strikingly different approach.
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[1/2] The state of AI in 2025. Agents, Innovation, and Transformation: Results (AI column)
\[1/2\] The state of AI in 2025. Agents, Innovation, and Transformation: Results (Rubric AI ) I studied interesting. report November 2025 QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, led by a group of senior partners at McKinsey. I was interested in comparing the results with the joint report "Jakov and Partners". (ex-McKinsey) And Yandex, which I mean. told earlier.
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[3/3] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Filed under DevEx)
\[3/3\] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Rubric DevEx ) If you finalize the analysis of this report Gergeli (beginning 1 and 2)The following key trends are visible
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[2/3] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Filed under DevEx)
\[2/3\] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Rubric DevEx ) Continue. story About the survey Gergeli, consider the remaining topics
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Application of AI and LLM in Development and Management (AI column)
Application of AI and LLM in Development and Management (Rubric AI) Watched this week. speech Alexander Lukyanchenko from the conference AvitoTechConf 2025which I visited in person (But I spent most of my time not looking at the papers, but talking to people I knew and talking about the same topics, but more openly.). If you go back to the report Sasha, he shared the figures about how AI really works in the development processes inside Avito. Sasha leads the development of PaaS within the company and his team is responsible for efficiency.
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[1/3] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Filed under DevEx)
\[1/3\] The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey (Rubric DevEx ) Got to the summer results. research Gergeli Orosha (Gergely Orosz)He is a well-known engineer and author of the popular newsletter “The Pragmatic Engineer”, one of the most influential sources of analytics in the field of technology. This survey was conducted among readers of the newsletter "The Pragmatic Engineer" in April-May 2025It was attended by 3k engineers. Respondents are mainly software engineers and from companies of all sizes.
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YaC 2025 AI Edition (AI column)
YaC 2025 AI Edition (Rubric AI ) Another YaC. (Yet another Conference) Yandex demonstrate The transition of artificial intelligence from the status of technology for enthusiasts to a mass tool for everyday tasks. The film introduces the idea that AI should become a “habit”, helping to solve real problems without having to understand technical details like “pretrane” and “inference”.
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T-Sync Conf (Category Software)
T-Sync Conf (Rubric Software ) Come. 7 February 2026 of the year for our big conference T-SyncThe point of synchronization of technologies and those who use them. There will be a lot about practice, interaction and living systems. We're going to have a stand at this confection where we're going to show the results. The Impact of AI on Engineering Culture. It's going to be at the coffee house. 8 technological contours from all engineering fields: AI, Data, R&D, Security, UX/UI, Productivity, Observability, Platfrom.
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DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development - General information on the report (Devops column)
DORA 2025 State of AI-assisted Software Development - General information on the report (Rubric Devops ) I’ve talked briefly about the study.DORA Research: 2025"in the past posts. Then I read the report carefully, but then told about its results very briefly. And now I need a more detailed analysis for The Impact of AI on Engineering Culture So I decided to write it for my subscribers.
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Now the view in the morning from the window resembles winter, although there will still be little snow:)
Now the view in the morning from the window resembles winter, although there will still be little snow:)
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Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering (AI column)
Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering (Rubric AI ) Interesting. report Justin Reock, Deputy CTO of DX (recently bought Atlassian for $1 billion). Reock is known for its work on measuring and optimizing developer productivity, making it one of the industry’s leading voices on AI in development. In this talk, he talked about the productivity of engineers and gave many references to the research that I mentioned earlier. Below are the main points of the report.
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Top-3 Books by Peter I can recommend this year (Category Software)
Top-3 Books by Peter I can recommend this year (Rubric Software ) All three of the following books I consider worthwhile, but it should be noted that I read them in the original and at the time they were published. (I haven't read them in Russian yet.) 1. AI engineering. Building applications using basic models The last few years have been largely under the banner of AI. The level of hype is simply bombatic, but this does not mean that there is nothing behind the hype, and the technology itself does not give anything.
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The Infinite Software Crisis (AI column)
The Infinite Software Crisis (Rubric AI ) I watched it this weekend. note Jake Nationals. (Jake Nations), a staff engineer from Netflix. Jake is embedding AI tools into Netflix’s development processes, and in this talk, he shares an engineer’s sober look at how generative code breaks architecture. When it comes to the key points, they are 1The Endless Software Crisis Historically (from Dijkstra to 60-x to Cloud Native.) Each new tool promised to solve the problem of complexity, but only allowed us to build even more complex systems.
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Atlassian acquires DX platform (developer experience) $1 Billion causes and consequences (Filed under DevEx)
Atlassian acquires DX platform (developer experience) $1 Billion causes and consequences (Rubric DevEx ) 18 September 2025 Atlassian Officially announced Acquisition of the DX Platform (Developer Experience) about $1 Billions in cash and Atlassian shares (largest acquisition in Atlassian history). DX is an engineering analytics platform that allows organizations to measure the productivity of development teams and identify bottlenecks in their processes.
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From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering (AI column)
From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering (Rubric AI ) Watched the humorous. speech Kitze (Kristian Ristowski)at the end of 2025 At the AI Engineer Summit. The speaker is a prominent front-end developer and entrepreneur in the community who is known for his sarcastic approach to modern web development, which he criticizes the excessive complexity of tools. (Webpack, configurations) It promotes the "Just Ship It" approach.
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AI engineering. Building applications using basic models (AI Engineering) (AI column)
AI engineering. Building applications using basic models (AI Engineering) (Rubric AI ) The book AI Engineering - already transferred. release Peter's publishing house. I read this book in English at the beginning of the year and it was great. (We, along with Flo’s Zhenya Sergeev, almost completely dismantled it in three series of the podcast: 1, 2 and 3). Actually, the book is great for engineers who are building a GenAI product right now, for example, chatbot, copilot, RAG, etc.
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Meta’s Yann LeCun targets €3bn valuation for AI start-up (AI column)
Meta’s Yann LeCun targets €3bn valuation for AI start-up (Rubric AI ) In article It tells about the new startup Jan Lekun, one of the two main AI scientists at the banned in Russia company Meta. S 2013 He led the Facebook/Meta FAIR research lab, which he led to become one of the world’s leading research labs, but he is leaving later this year. He is currently working with Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs.
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Code World Model: Building World Models for Computation (Category Software)
Code World Model: Building World Models for Computation (Rubric Software ) I saw an interesting one. report Jacob Kahn, researcher at FAIR (which is part of the banned company Meta in Russia). In this talk, Jacob presents a paradigm shift in teaching models for code generation: the transition from learning in syntax to learning in semantics through world modeling. An extended version of this concept can be read in whitepaper, and also touch in repo GitHub. If we talk about the key ideas of the speech, they are
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Fundamentals of Deep Learning (Fundamentals of Deep Learning) (AI column)
Fundamentals of Deep Learning (Fundamentals of Deep Learning) (Rubric AI ) I recently finished reading the first edition of this book, which was published in English. 2017 year:) Author in 20 graduated from MIT, in 2016 Remedy started to apply AI in healthcare, and in 2020 Ambience Healthcare is developing an “ambient AI” platform to help doctors automate routine documentation. He is also known in the AI community as the author of one of the first popular deep learning books.
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This morning I was talking about the report "Artificial Intelligence in Russia." 2025“Trends and Prospects,” which the former guys from McKinsey and Yandex came out on the whole 120 pages.
In the morning. told About the report "Artificial intelligence in Russia - 2025“Trends and Prospects,” which the former guys from McKinsey and Yandex came out on the whole 120 pages. Of course, the size is inspiring, but the full report is rarely read - usually read a brief sammmari with the help of a sculptor. landing. But I like to read the original versions in order to understand the methodology, the results themselves and to form an opinion on the conclusions. Sometimes this method allows you to find absurd content.
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Artificial intelligence in Russia 2025: trends and prospects (AI column)
Artificial intelligence in Russia 2025: trends and prospects (Rubric AI ) This weekend I read the full article carefully. report, which was prepared by the consulting company "Yakov and Partners" together with Yandex (Business perspective + technology expertise). The report relies on three data sources: survey 150 Technical Directors of Large Companies (from 16 industries)poll 150 vendors of AI solutions, survey 3500+ Russians. In-depth interviews with industry leaders were also conducted to look below the surface of the numbers.
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The universe. Time travel (Category PopularScience)
The universe. Time travel (Rubric PopularScience ) I read this book with great pleasure by Sergey Arkturovich Yazev, a Russian astronomer who has been leading the Astronomical Observatory of Irkutsk State University for many years and is associated with the Institute of Solar-Earth Physics of the SB RAS. Interestingly, Sergey is a hereditary astronomer and practically lives in his subject area, knows how to popularize it and keep the discipline of the scientific method.
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[2/2] AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What's Next (Category PlatformEngineering)
\[2/2\] AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What's Next (Rubric PlatformEngineering ) Continuing parsing Kelsey interview should mention AI topics and the importance of soft skills
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[1/2] AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What's Next (Category PlatformEngineering)
\[1/2\] AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What's Next (Rubric PlatformEngineering ) I saw it. interview Kelsey Hightower with JetBrains team on state of the industry 2025 year. I remember years. 7 I studied Kubernetes from his repository. Kubernetes The Hard Way, which was not easy, but helped me pass the labs to get the nameplate CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) First in the company. That was when my colleague Stas and I were together.
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Code of Leadership 58 - Interview with Vladimir Malov about tech management and vibe coding (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 58 - Interview with Vladimir Malov about tech management and vibe coding (Rubric Management ) Interview with Vladimir Malov, Executive Director of Fintech installment service +7 pay, which went from iOS developer to STO/SRO in e-grocery and gathered large IT teams. In this interview, we discussed with Vladimir his career in general, and also talked about the approach to vibe coding of new products, as well as Vladimir showed a mini demo of creating an application in Lovable. Within an hour and a half we discussed the following topics:
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Can you prove AI ROI in Software Engineering? (AI column)
Can you prove AI ROI in Software Engineering? (Rubric AI ) Just recently Egor Denisov-Blanche (Yegor Denisov-Blanch) spoke AI Engineer Code Summit 2025 In New York with this provocative report:) In fact, this is a teaser of the results of a two-year study of the impact of AI tools on the productivity of developers, covering 120 000+ developers in 600+ companies ( At the very least, this coverage inspires confidence. ). Previous Previous post: Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity?
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I even have a dog that reaches for knowledge.) She likes my chair in the library.
I even have a dog that reaches for knowledge.) She likes my chair in the library.
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Moving away from Agile. What's next? (Category Processes)
Moving away from Agile. What's next? (Rubric Processes ) Looked pretentious. report McKinsey guys with a recent AI Engineer confa in which they revealed a few key thoughts
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A star called the Sun. (Category PopularScience)
A star called the Sun. (Rubric PopularScience ) The last couple of days I read a brilliant book by astronomer Sergei Yazev, The Universe. Travel through time and space.” This is an excellent excursion into the history of human ideas about the cosmos: from mythological pictures of the world to modern cosmology, the Big Bang theory, black holes and quantum physics.
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Leadership surveys and relationship to reality (AI column)
Leadership surveys and relationship to reality (Rubric AI ) With careful study report I decided to pay attention to sources of information, which are mainly three types: a survey of top managers of companies, a survey of vendor representatives and a survey of users. When studying the results of a survey of company executives about how AI technologies are implemented, I remembered Yaroslav Gashek and his brave soldier Schweik.
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GigaChat 3 Ultra Preview is a heavy open source (AI column)
GigaChat 3 Ultra Preview is a heavy open source (Rubric AI ) Just finished reading today. article Gathering about GigaChat release 3 Ultra, which was published in late November on Habre. I found it interesting and worth studying, but if you briefly summarize the theses from the article, the guys rolled out a new generation of open-weight models under MIT:
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[2/2] How did we get to where we are in AI? (AI column)
\[2/2\] How did we get to where we are in AI? (Rubric AI ) Continue. story Jeff Dean's performance should be told, and which key whitepapers came out after Attention Is All You Need We will continue to share our findings on where we are today.
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[1/2] How did we get to where we are in AI? (AI column)
\[1/2\] How did we get to where we are in AI? (Rubric AI ) A couple of weeks ago, Jeff Dean. (Jeff Dean), Chief Data Science at Google, performer Stanford AI Club, where he gave a retrospective 15+ years of development of artificial intelligence. He explained as a combination of three factors: scaling computation. (scale)New algorithms and specialized hardware have led to modern large multimodal models such as Gemini. 3.0. Jeff is a legendary figure in the world of CS and software engineering.
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Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks (AI column)
Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks (Rubric AI ) 2 December was interesting. study About security vibe-coding by Songwen Zhao, Danqing Wang, Kexun Zhang, Jiaxuan Luo, Zhuo Li and Lei Li. The main group of scientists here is associated with Carnegie Mellon University.
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2026: The Year The IDE Died (AI column)
2026: The Year The IDE Died (Rubric AI ) I saw an interesting one. report Gene Kim and the future of development. These are honored authors who combine experience and influence on the industry.
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[2/2] How AI is Transforming Work at Anthropic (AI column)
\[2/2\] How AI is Transforming Work at Anthropic (Rubric AI ) Second half. parsing It focuses on what managers can learn from the Anthropic report.
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[1/2] How AI is Transforming Work at Anthropic (AI column)
\[1/2\] How AI is Transforming Work at Anthropic (Rubric AI ) With great interest. Anthropic internal study about how to use their AI assistant (Claude) It affects the work of the company’s engineers. Of course, Anthropic is an AI company in itself, so its employees are in privileged conditions: they are among the first to access the most advanced AI tools and work in the field directly related to the development of AI. Therefore, the authors emphasize that the findings may not be fully generalized to other organizations.
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[2/2] Trend report: GenAI market in 2025 year - Application, personnel, investments, growth scenarios (AI column)
\[2/2\] Trend report: GenAI market in 2025 year - Application, personnel, investments, growth scenarios (Rubric AI ) Continue. story In this report, it should be said that GenAI technologies are moving into the phase of practical implementation. Po Po data Skara, 40% of Russian IT companies have already launched full-featured GenAI projects, and only 8The percentage hasn't tried AI at all.
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[1/2] Trend report: GenAI market in 2025 The technological base of the Russian GenAI (AI column)
\[1/2\] Trend report: GenAI market in 2025 The technological base of the Russian GenAI (Rubric AI ) I read it the other day. RedMadRobot Report About the GenAI market in Russia 2025 year. The report itself came out weighty. n (50+ pages) And I decided to break it down into a couple of posts. It all starts with a beautiful picture with the ontology of the GenAI market, which is then decomposed into a linear list of topics like infrastructure and telecom, models? data and industry knowledge, professional tools, applications, services, and so on.
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[2/2] Defying Gravity (AI column)
\[2/2\] Defying Gravity (Rubric AI ) A story. I would like to end with an analysis of what this release means for engineers.