Book Cube: 2025, page 2
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 2: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #AI
[1/2] Defying Gravity (AI column)
\[1/2\] Defying Gravity (Rubric AI ) It's interesting. speech About the new IDE "Antigravity" from Kevin Howe, head of product engineering Google Antigravity at Google DeepMind. Until summer. 2025 Kevin was Head of Product Engineering at Windsurf (former Codeium)Google Acquires Windsurf Team for $2,4 Billions to create antigravity. In this talk, Howe describes the evolution of AI tools for developers as a sequence of leaps, each associated with improved models: 1Autocomplice (GitHub Copilot) 2Chat (ChatGPT with RLHF) 3Agents (Antigravity)
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No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases (AI column)
No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases (Rubric AI ) Interesting. speech Dex Horthy, founder of HumanLayer, a company that develops tools for AI-assisted development. His previous report "12 Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications" (see mine analysis) June 2025 It was one of the most popular at the conference. He is credited with popularizing the term "context engineering".
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Software development in 2030 year: hypotheses about (not)future (AI column)
Software development in 2030 year: hypotheses about (not)future (Rubric AI ) On Sunday, I will speak at a conference for ITMO students and graduates with such a report. The announcement from me sounds something like this. S 2022 We have a technology that is rapidly changing the world around us. And if earlier we were on the IT side as drivers of change, digitalizing everything around, now IT itself is transformed with the introduction of AI. In this talk, I wanted to discuss what the future holds and what development will look like in five years.
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The Thinking Game (AI column)
The Thinking Game (Rubric AI ) I really like to watch documentaries about technology and scientists, so I watched with great interest. film Directed by Greg Kohs about AGI, DeepMind and personally by Demis Hassabis. In fact, “The Thinking Game” was created over five years by the same team that had previously won acclaim for the documentary “AlphaGo” that I’ve already written about. told. The film was shown at festivals in 2024 year and at the end of November 2025 The year he came out on YouTube.
- · #Economics
[2/2] The Chinese View of the World and the Chinese Model: Retrospective and Perspective
\[2/2\] The Chinese View of the World and the Chinese Model: Retrospective and Perspective Continue. comparison It is impossible not to tell about the differences in the approaches of the authors.
- · #Economics
[1/2] The Chinese View of the World and the Chinese Model: Retrospective and Perspective
\[1/2\] The Chinese View of the World and the Chinese Model: Retrospective and Perspective Interesting to compare labour Lee Daokuya with book Russian economist Vladimir Popov, The Chinese Model: Retrospective and Perspective. I read both books recently, and both authors write about China's development, but from slightly different perspectives - domestic Chinese and foreign. (Russian) - and their findings complement each other.
- · #Economics
[2/2] Chinese view of the world (China's World View) (Category Economics)
\[2/2\] Chinese view of the world (China's World View) (Rubric Economics ) But you can't. tell This book, without mentioning the criticism.
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[1/2] Chinese view of the world (China's World View) (Category Economics)
\[1/2\] Chinese view of the world (China's World View) (Rubric Economics ) I read this book with great interest by David Li Daokui, a leading Chinese economist. He was born in 1963 He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard, and 2006 He is Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University. Li served as Dean of the Tsinghua-based Schwarzman Program and served on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. (central bank).
- · #Management
[2/2] Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects (Communication Patterns: A Guide for IT Developers and Architects) (Category Management)
\[2/2\] Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects (Communication Patterns: A Guide for IT Developers and Architects) (Rubric Management ) Continue. story The second half of the book is about knowledge transfer and effective remote work. 3Transfer of knowledge (Communicating Knowledge) How to manage knowledge in a team and organization.
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[1/2] Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects (Communication Patterns: A Guide for IT Developers and Architects) (Category Management)
\[1/2\] Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects (Communication Patterns: A Guide for IT Developers and Architects) (Rubric Management ) I started reading it in English as an early preview on the O’Reilly platform, and finished it as a book in Russian, which was translated and published by BHV. In general, I liked the book - it is about successful communication for engineers and technical managers who are already accustomed to using templates in design, development and organizational design.
- · #ForKids
How to watch a movie (ForKids Category)
How to watch a movie (Rubric ForKids ) Periodically I buy books for children and so on my desk was this cool book by Anton Dolin and Konstantin Bronzit, which came out in the series Alpine. The first edition was in 2019 I got a reissue in which it is written in large letters on the back of the cover that Dolin became a foreign agent during this time, but this did not affect the quality of the book, since both authors are professionals.
- · #AI
Meta looks to power trading supports its AI energy needs (AI column)
Meta looks to power trading supports its AI energy needs (Rubric AI ) In November 2025 This year it became known about the non-trivial step of Meta, which is banned in Russia. received permission of US regulators to trade electricity in the wholesale market. The move is designed to meet the rapidly growing demand of its data centers. (DPC) electricity for artificial intelligence solutions (AI).
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AI changes Nothing — Dax Raad, OpenCode (AI column)
AI changes \ Nothing\ — Dax Raad, OpenCode (Rubric AI ) I saw an interesting one. report Dax Raad from OpenCode At the AI Engineer conference, where the creator of the popular coding agent made a provocative thesis: despite all the hype around AI, the fundamental challenges of building a successful product remain the same. In general, AI does not magically solve problems that were previously required to develop products. The main points in the speech are only three
- · #AI
C-Connect by Yandex
C-Connect by Yandex I was yesterday at the Yandex event for CTO and CPO, which turned out to be top. So I decided to share my thoughts on why the guys did this: There were few guests, but they were really in c-level positions. The place was cozy, there were rooms for hanging out on topics, the main hall, as well as places for networking near the bar.
- · #Speaking
Aristotle's rhetoric (Category Speaking)
Aristotle's rhetoric (Rubric Speaking ) I often find myself in a situation where I need to convey my thoughts to the audience as effectively as possible, whether it is a public speaking or a meeting within the company. I usually build my story and theses on a rational and logical approach, similar to that of mintoBut it didn't always work, so I decided to go back to the classics.
- · #Architecture
Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - NDC Copenhagen 2025 (Category Architecture)
Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - NDC Copenhagen 2025 (Rubric Architecture ) Excellent. speech Jerry Nixon, product manager at SQL Server and Data API Builder, says architecture isn’t about “best practices,” it’s about contextual solutions and the courage to say no. In fact, Nixon breaks down myths and goes on to show you how to build architecture at any scale with your context in mind. He begins with a provocation, saying that the term “best practice” is used as an excuse for the absence of arguments.
- · #Management
The Minto Pyramid or How to Structure Your Texts (Category Management)
The Minto Pyramid or How to Structure Your Texts (Rubric Management ) I read a lot of documentation, both at work and in my free time. And I get frustrated with situations where to understand the essence of the question requires overcoming pages of text, rather than following the thoughts of the author. This is especially true when the issue is important and time is limited. At this point, you want the document to be structured in a format: first the main idea, then the evidence. This principle has been popularized since the 1970s.
- · #ForKids
Minecraft in Creative Mode (ForKids Category)
Minecraft in Creative Mode (Rubric ForKids ) Minecraft has been in our lives for a long time - once my eldest son Pasha, who is already nineteen, was hacked into it, then the middle son Maxim, who is now ten, conquered Minecraft, and the last year my youngest son Kirill, who recently turned... 5. Kirill listens to audio fairy tales about minecraft, we watch the debriefings of bloggers, even the birthday cake he had in the style of minecraft. But I'm ashamed to admit that I don't know much about Minecraft. That's why I decided to buy Cyril.
- · #Engineering
How AI will change software engineering (Category Engineering)
How AI will change software engineering (Rubric Engineering ) I saw something interesting. interview Martin Fowler on what really changes for engineers and team leaders because of LLM and coding agents Martin was interviewed by Gergeli Orosz as part of the Pragmatic Engineer podcast. The conversation itself was intense.
- · #AI4SDLC
How we implement AI in SDLC and why it is necessary
⚡️ How we implement AI in SDLC and why it is necessary Over the past year, we have systematically implemented AI tools throughout the development lifecycle and actively share our experiences, challenges and solutions. For example, recently we talked about measure Productivity of engineers. And yesterday it opened. Early access to our AI agent for developers. Today we are sharing how AI is already helping us in development, what technologies we use and what results we have achieved.
- · #BookCube
An excellent story about T-Bank’s experience in implementing AI in development processes. For fans, you can read the cards, and the details are in the article by Koli Bushkov.
An excellent story about T-Bank’s experience in implementing AI in development processes. For lovers, you can read the cards, and the details are in article Koli Bushkova
- · #Economics
"The economy won't survive"? An alarming call for Russia / Oleg Vyugin about taxes, ruble and mortgage (Category Economics)
"The economy won't survive"? An alarming call for Russia / Oleg Vyugin about taxes, ruble and mortgage (Rubric Economics ) Sometimes I watch our program "Money does not sleep", in which hosts and guests discuss economic topics very dynamically and visually. And specifically, release It was interesting that it discussed the current state and prospects of the Russian economy. 2025-2026 years.
- · #Architecture
EventStorming (Category Architecture)
EventStorming (Rubric Architecture ) Today I spent the day as a facilitator of the event storming session, which was dedicated to the domain of a/b experiments. It was entertaining and exhausting:) This one approach Alberto Brandolini was invented in order to share knowledge between domain experts and developers as efficiently as possible.
- · #Humor
10x engineer - Midlife crisis (Humor column)
10x engineer - Midlife crisis (Rubric Humor ) It's fresh. sketch The story is about the midlife crisis of the legendary 10x engineer, where humor is built on irony and sarcasm about stereotypes and typical situations in the life of a developer who is considered hyperproductive, but at the same time behaves eccentricly. We see examples of the absurdity of the technological world, hyperbolization of mental abilities, excessive cynicism and alienation of the hero from ordinary people. (He calls them NPCs, non-player characters.).
- · #Strategy
Yerevan Stratsession (Category Strategy)
Yerevan Stratsession (Rubric Strategy ) Flew on 3 During the day in Yerevan, to talk with colleagues about the results and strategy of the department, which deals with product analytics, a/b experiments, calculation of metrics, etc. These are very important topics that allow a large company to optimize its products and processes based on data rather than the opinions of the highest paid people. (HiPPO, Highest Paid Person's Opinion).
- · #Engineering
[2/2] About Netflix - Infrastructure, Architecture and AI (Category Engineering)
\[2/2\] About Netflix - Infrastructure, Architecture and AI (Rubric Engineering ) Continue. story Talk about Netflix and talk about the company’s technical foundations.
- · #Business
[1/2] About Netflix - Business Plans and Organization (Category Business)
\[1/2\] About Netflix - Business Plans and Organization (Rubric Business ) After watching. podcast And with Elizabeth Stone, who's the CTO of Netflix, I was curious about how they're doing, where the business is looking, what the organization looks like, and what the engineering culture looks like, and what the architecture is doing. In the first post, we will discuss everything except architecture.
- · #Economics
[2/2] The Chinese model. Why China lagged behind the West and is now overtaking it (Category Economics)
\[2/2\] The Chinese model. Why China lagged behind the West and is now overtaking it (Rubric Economics ) Continue. story About the Chinese development model, I will tell about the six-step model of China’s development according to Popov
- · #Economics
[1/2] The Chinese model. Why China lagged behind the West and is now overtaking it (Category Economics)
\[1/2\] The Chinese model. Why China lagged behind the West and is now overtaking it (Rubric Economics ) I read it with great interest. book Vladimir Popov, Doctor of Economics, Professor and Specialist in Economic Development and Transitional Economies. Popov has long worked in leading research centers both in Russia and abroad. He has established himself as an expert in comparative economic development.
- · #Devops
Postcriptum State of Devops Russia 2025 (Devops column)
Postcriptum State of Devops Russia 2025 (Rubric Devops ) I will share the final part separately. reportDima Gaevsky, my friend and colleague who is responsible for the development of our internal development platform.
- · #Devops
State of Devops Russia 2025 (Devops column)
State of Devops Russia 2025 (Rubric Devops ) A few days ago, it was published. survey The state of DevOps in Russia. The weekend came, I finished it and decided to write a thesis. By the way, if you like this analysis, you can compare it with the global DORA report for the first time. 2025 The year I've been about wrote. But back to that poll.
- · #Engineering
Netflix's Engineering Culture (Category Engineering)
Netflix's Engineering Culture (Rubric Engineering ) I saw it. podcast About the engineering culture of Netflix, where Elizabeth Stone, CTO of the company, shared her thoughts (Netflix 3.5k engineers and 25Percentage of employees). The latest information about Netflix culture came from an interesting book.No Rules Rules. Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention" but it's been a long time since then and I've been wondering what's changed since then.
- · #Management
9 years
9 years Regular 365 My days at the company were fascinating. Exactly a year ago, I told How did it all start in T and what did I do? 8 years. But the plans from last year were not fully implemented - this year we have had and are undergoing another transformation, where from a business point of view, we are working together. crossed From individual products to needs and segments, and technically we are moving towards product and platform engineering. (somewhat engineering Uber).
- · #AI
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought (AI column)
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought (Rubric AI ) It is always interesting to count money in someone else’s pocket, but even more interesting when these calculations allow you to assess the convergence of the current wave of hype around AI. In fact, the Financial Times did this by writing. article motively parsing Ed Zitron, who collected data on OpenAI accounts in Azure. In the FT article, the authors tried to estimate the real costs of inference and get comments from both companies: OpenAI and Microsoft.
- · #Business
[2/2] Nubank. (Category Business)
\[2/2\] Nubank. (Rubric Business ) Continue. story About Nubank, I wanted to summarize the theses of Vitor Oliveira, who talked about technology at Nubank on the podcast.Hippsters Ponto Tech 459" (Podcast in Portuguese) April 2025 year, and in August. 2025 He was replaced by Eric Young. (Ex-VP Engineering Snap, Google, Amazon)This, in my opinion, gave a clear signal to investors that Nubank is ready to scale its engineering branch for the global expansion discussed in a previous post.
- · #Business
[1/2] Nubank. (Category Business)
\[1/2\] Nubank. (Rubric Business ) After studying history Lucas Cavalcant (distingueshed engineer @ Nubank) I was interested in the development of development at Nubank, what is their global strategy and how IT supports this strategy. In principle, with the current development of search technologies and especially translation, it was not difficult to find out. ( I don't know Portuguese, but I do know LLM. ).
- · #BookCube
Today I learned that visas to Portugal are ready. Blitz, blitz - speed without borders - the visa center made them just in time for their planned return from Portugal:)
Today I learned that visas to Portugal are ready. Blitz, blitz - speed without borders - the visa center made them just in time for their planned return from Portugal:)
- · #PlatformEngineering
[2/2] From Predictive to Generative - How Michelangelo Accelerates Uber’s AI Journey (Category PlatformEngineering)
\[2/2\] From Predictive to Generative - How Michelangelo Accelerates Uber’s AI Journey (Rubric PlatformEngineering ) Continue. story About Michelangelo ML-platform I want to share the lessons that can be learned from the story about Michelangelo 8 The years of its evolution and development within Uber. You are also planning to build your own platform:)
- · #PlatformEngineering
[1/2] From Predictive to Generative - How Michelangelo Accelerates Uber’s AI Journey (Category PlatformEngineering)
\[1/2\] From Predictive to Generative - How Michelangelo Accelerates Uber’s AI Journey (Rubric PlatformEngineering ) When I studied How Engineering Works at UberI came across a great one. evolutionist ML/AI platform Michelangelo. I found it interesting to talk separately about all three stages of the evolution of the platform, what they had the prerequisites, what happened in the end, and what you can learn if you also build platforms in your companies.
- · #Business
Revolut. (Category Business)
Revolut. (Rubric Business ) After reviewing Revolut’s approach, automation I was wondering where they were going from public sources. (Mainly their own strategy announcements).
- · #Engineering
How engineering works at Uber (Category Engineering)
How engineering works at Uber (Rubric Engineering ) After memories When I was at Charles-Axel Dein's Uber in the past, I became interested in how the engineering part of Uber works today, and I collected some of that information.
- · #Engineering
High growth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein (Category Engineering)
High growth startups: Uber and CloudKitchens with Charles-Axel Dein (Rubric Engineering ) I saw something interesting. interview Charles-Axel Dein gave Gergely Orosz in the Pragmatic Engineer podcast. The guest was the 20th engineer at Uber and is now a tech leader at CloudKitchens. He is also the author of the legendary Professional Programming Reading List (15 He has been collecting useful articles for years, now 48K е on GitHub.).
- · #Architecture
10 years of engineering at Nubank: Lessons from scaling to 122+ million customers (Category Architecture)
10 years of engineering at Nubank: Lessons from scaling to 122+ million customers (Rubric Architecture ) Recently I read it. article The evolution of NuBank 10 Lucas Cavalcant, Distinguished Software Engineer and Senior Architect This story of evolution seemed interesting to me, so I decided to talk about lessons learned.
- · #Games
[2/2] The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality (Oculus. How to build the best VR company in the world and lose everything?) (Games rubric)
\[2/2\] The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality (Oculus. How to build the best VR company in the world and lose everything?) (Rubric Games ) Continue. story About the book "The History of Future" should tell about the main canvas of history
- · #Games
[1/2] The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality (Oculus. How to build the best VR company in the world and lose everything?) (Games rubric)
\[1/2\] The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality (Oculus. How to build the best VR company in the world and lose everything?) (Rubric Games ) With great interest, I swallowed this documentary about the meteoric rise of startup Oculus VR, which created the revolutionary VR helmet Oculus Rift. The author of the book is American writer Blake J. Harris, known for the bestseller Console Wars. (2014) Sega vs. Nintendo. To work on this book, Harris gained unprecedented access to the company's team.
- · #PlatformEngineering
Extreme DevOps Automation Report from Revolut on QCon 2025 (Category PlatformEngineering)
Extreme DevOps Automation Report from Revolut on QCon 2025 (Rubric PlatformEngineering ) Interesting. report c QCon 2025 From Sérgio Amorim about their DevOps team. The bottom line is that the guys at Revolut have a practical approach to their development platform -- they're tight. sitting on Google CloudAt the same time adding custom automation from above. With this approach, they are able to 15 Engineers can maintain the scale of the order 13k engineers, 1.2k microservices and 11k databases (What the guys on the platform team support themselves).
- · #AI
“I realized that this is the end”: how the Creator of “Alice” resigned from “Sber”, emigrated and builds an AI startup (AI column)
“I realized that this is the end”: how the Creator of “Alice” resigned from “Sber”, emigrated and builds an AI startup (Rubric AI ) I saw it. curious Konstantin Kruglov, what he gave Elizaveta Osetinskaya, a foreign agent. Before leaving Russia, Konstantin managed to work at Tinkoff Digital, where he built a platform for programmatic buying, at Yandex, where he was engaged in Alice, as well as at SberDevices, where he also made iron for speakers and voice assistants.
- · #Architecture
Comparison of Google and Meta approaches to networking and infrastructure (Category Architecture)
Comparison of Google and Meta approaches to networking and infrastructure (Rubric Architecture ) In this post, I decided to compare Google’s approaches to its network architecture. The point is that both of these companies 2025 This year, I wrote articles on how infrastructure is changing to meet the challenges of the AI era, and I’ve discussed both.
- · #Economics
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn" (Category Economics)
WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn" (Rubric Economics ) While flying eight hours from the Maldives, I read a few chapters of the book.Hands-On Large Language ModelsI also watched this WeWork movie, which came to me like many other documentaries. (see. list). But it's a remarkable failure story, kind of like the Theranos I'm talking about. beforehand. Even at the dawn of WeWork, the scheme seemed too ambitious, and when I watched it, I felt that the whole internal culture was like a sect that had gone through different stages.
- · #Conference
WebSummit Lisbon (Category Conference)
WebSummit Lisbon (Rubric Conference ) At the beginning of the summer, my wife and I took WebSummit to Portugal and bought early-bird tickets. Then we bought plane tickets, booked a hotel and applied for a visa. Tonight we were supposed to fly out, but ... the visa center of Portugal together with the consulate failed in four and a half months to review the visa application and answer yes/no. However, a week and a half ago we had to take passports to fly to the Maldives with children, but we were told to return passports.