Book Cube: 2025, page 5
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 5: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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Flexible work update (Category Management)
Flexible work update (Rubric Management ) Microsoft recently announced an update to its hybrid work policy, with employees expected to be present at least three days a week. This decision is set out in letter Authored by Amy Coleman, executive vice president and chief human resources officer of Microsoft. The argument was that in the age of AI, face-to-face communication boosts the energy, innovation and efficiency of teams, so it’s important for companies to get people together offline more often.
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Code of Leadership 54 - Interview with Maxim Korobov about management and mobile development (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 54 - Interview with Maxim Korobov about management and mobile development (Rubric Management ) Interview with Maxim Korobov, my colleague and CTO of Client Interface Management, who at T is responsible for the platform parts of the mobile bank, web and API. We discussed with Maxim his career and how it was intertwined with the development of mobile technology and work at T-Bank. In general, we discussed the following topics.
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Doesn't it matter what others think? (What Do You Care What Other People Think?) (Category Science)
Doesn't it matter what others think? (What Do You Care What Other People Think?) (Rubric Science ) I love reading Feynman’s books, and I especially liked this collection of autobiographical stories. Perhaps this is due to the name in which the rhetorical question is posed:) By the way, I bought it in visitation Phystech:)
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Creativity Strugatsky through the eyes of an engineer and technical director (Category SciFi)
Creativity Strugatsky through the eyes of an engineer and technical director (Rubric SciFi ) Recently, inside the company, I was offered to tell about my attitude to the Strugatskys, which was timed to coincide with 100- the anniversary of the birth of Arkady Natanovich, the eldest of the brothers. I gladly agreed to share my thoughts, made a presentation and in an hour I told them. 1. Tandem Brothers: Role Distribution and Collaborative Writing Style and Why It's Like Pair Programming 2.
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[2/2] Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI column)
\[2/2\] Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (Rubric AI ) Continue. story About canaries, it is necessary to tell that the methodology was based on ADP data on salaries, as well as on the assessment of the susceptibility of professions to the influence of AI, which used the approach from the ADP.GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs" and the Anthropic Economic Index" ("Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations").
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[1/2] Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (AI column)
\[1/2\] Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (Rubric AI ) Interesting. study On the impact of AI on employment from students from Stanford University: Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen. By the way, Brynjolfson is the co-author of the cool book "Machine, Platform, Crowd," which I'm already talking about. told. The purpose of this new study was to assess recent changes. (2022 - 2025 years) in the U.S.
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Python: The Documentary An origin story (Category Software)
Python: The Documentary An origin story (Rubric Software ) I saw it yesterday. filmmaker How Python went from a side project to a language that rose to the most popular AI revolution:) The film was released in late August and was released by Cult.Repo. (Honeypot)It was directed by Ida Bechtle. The film was funded by Anaconda, banned in Russia Meta, OpenTeams, PyCharm (JetBrains)Quansight. Speaking briefly about the main points, here they are. 1. The Origins of History at CWI (Amsterdam)and the influence of language ABC) and early Internet 2.
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The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (AI column)
The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (Rubric AI ) I read something interesting yesterday. report About the state of affairs in the implementation of AI in the industry from the project team MIT NANDA Aditya Challapally, Chris Pease, Ramesh Raskar and Pradyumna Chari (July 2025). Project NANDA stands for Networked Agents and Decentralized Architecture and is an MIT research initiative aimed at building the infrastructure for distributed intelligence of autonomous agent systems.
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Today I got to the InBetween conference, which I told about earlier and which we discussed with Lesha Fedorov, the main ideologist of this confa.
I went to the InBetween conference today. told before and before debate Lesha Fedorov, the main ideologist of this confa.
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Covers and illustrations from the books "Business for programmers". How to Start a Business and Eric Sink on the Business of Software
Covers and illustrations from books “Business for programmers. How to Start a Business and Eric Sink on the Business of Software
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Business for programmers. How to start a business (Eric Sink on the Business of Software) (Category Bootstrapping)
Business for programmers. How to start a business (Eric Sink on the Business of Software) (Rubric Bootstrapping ) Continuing to disassemble his bookshelf from old books, came across this collection of essays from Erica Sinka How programmers start and develop a product business. The original came out in Apress in 2006 Russian edition - in "Peter" in 2011Mm. The material grew from the eponymous column of Sinca on MSDN (2003–2005)I mean, it's already gone. 20 years.
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Research Insights Made Simple 17 - Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Developer Productivity (Filed under DevEx)
Research Insights Made Simple 17 - Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Developer Productivity (Rubric DevEx ) Analysis of the report METR "Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity, which shows developers slowing down when using AI. The methodology seemed interesting to me, but the sample size is already in 16 I thought engineers were too small to make loud statements about slowing down development. However, this sample size did not prevent many journalists from actively writing about this study.
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Cover and Sweets from High Growth Handbook
Cover and sweets from the bookHigh Growth Handbook"
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High Growth Handbook (Category Management)
High Growth Handbook (Rubric Management ) I read it in a couple of months. book Elada Gila, which was published in 2018 Stripe Press was created at a time when the technology sector was experiencing steady growth after recovering from the crisis. 2008-2009 years. It was a time of relatively cheap money, active venture funding, and optimism in the startup ecosystem. Conditions have changed, but the basic principles remain the same:)
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Code of Leadership 53 - Interview with Evgeniy Kokuykin about custom development and security in Gen AI (AI column)
Code of Leadership 53 - Interview with Evgeniy Kokuykin about custom development and security in Gen AI (Rubric AI ) Interview with Evgeny Kokuykin, one of the co-founders of Raft (https://raftds.ru/)and the creator of the HiveTrace product (https://hivetrace.ru/) To monitor the security of LLM applications. We discussed with Zhenya his interesting career path from engineer to team leader, then engineering director. Next, Zhenya became the CEO of the new company HiveTrace, which works in the field of security Gen AI applications.
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The future of agentic coding with Claude Code (AI column)
The future of agentic coding with Claude Code (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. interview Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, was taken from him by Alex Albert. (Claude Relations). They discussed the current state and future of agent programming based on the speed of evolution of models, as well as improvements to the Claude Code product since its inception. As for the key ideas, here they are.
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[2/2] The History of Google TPU and its Evolution (Category Engineering)
\[2/2\] The History of Google TPU and its Evolution (Rubric Engineering ) Continue. story TPU from Google 2021 For example, with TPU v4. 4. TPU v4 (2021) - Optical Circuit Switching TPU v4 introduced optical circuit switching to speed up communication between chips, which is critical for working with increasingly complex AI models. The productivity has been 275 TFLOPS per chip, with improved optical interconnects. 5.
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[1/2] The History of Google TPU and its Evolution (Category Engineering)
\[1/2\] The History of Google TPU and its Evolution (Rubric Engineering ) Literally yesterday I told About the report "CodeFest Russia: Where is the iron for neurons rolling?", and today I decided to talk about how Google got its own processors for multiplying matrices. In fact, it all began in the early 2000s, when Google was actively implementing ML models in its products. (search, translator, photo). They did it so successfully that with the advent of complex neural networks. (We remember the extravaganza with CNN Networks and ImageNet.
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Code of Leadership 52 - Interview with Alexander Chernikov about Management and IC Track (Staff +)
Code of Leadership 52 - Interview with Alexander Chernikov about Management and IC Track (Staff +) In podcast An interesting guest came to me, Alexander Chernikov, a staff + engineer in T-Bank. Alexander and I talked about his interesting path through his fascination with technology after the movie “Hackers”, and then getting into IT, developing on the managerial track in various Russian bigtechs, and then getting into T-Bank. It was here that Sasha moved from the engineering managers branch to the staff + engineers branch and he liked it.
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Retrospective on "In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit" (AI column)
Retrospective on "In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit" (Rubric AI ) Interesting. note Two pages on how and why Google’s TPU came to be past-post Iron for ML/AI. TPU proved to be a great solution and supported product deep learning initiatives within Google. 10 years in succession, starting from the beginning 2015 The year he came in.
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CodeFest Russia: Where does iron for neurons go? (AI column)
CodeFest Russia: Where does iron for neurons go? (Rubric AI ) Interesting. speech Valentina Mammadov from Sber, where he conducted an analysis of the iron market for AI. He began by talking about the market realities that
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Anthropic Threat Intelligence Report: August 2025 (Category Security)
Anthropic Threat Intelligence Report: August 2025 (Rubric Security ) Anthropic published in August notebook It's about analyzing threats, specifically how attackers abuse their Claude AI model to conduct cybercrimes. The report reveals several alarming trends in the evolution of cyber threats, where AI becomes not just a consultant, but an active participant in attacks. Here are the main cases. 1.
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Knowledge Day at the Higher School of Economics (Category Edu)
Knowledge Day at the Higher School of Economics (Rubric Edu ) Tonight, I came to visit the Faculty of Computer Science at HSE to speak to first-year students of applied mathematics and motivate them to study. It was an interesting experience of the impromptu ( I don't believe in learned speech. ). The presentations were something like this.
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Why AI Isn’t Ready to Be a Real Coder? AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust (AI column)
Why AI Isn’t Ready to Be a Real Coder ? AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust (Rubric AI ) Interesting. article from 26 In August from IEEE Spectrum about the current state of AI tools, which, according to the authors, are rapidly progressing, but they are far from the bottom autonomy. They are useful as assistants, but can not autonomously solve problems with a large context, complex logic and a long planning horizon. As a result, now we should strive not to replace the developer, but to build effective human interaction. AI.
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Silicone. The future we live in today (Startup Category)
Silicone. The future we live in today (Rubric Startup ) Sometimes when I leave work in the evening, I can no longer read complicated books, and then I take something simpler from a series of popcorn for a tired head off the shelf. Last week I started reading the book “Silicon Dale” by Vladimir Smerkis. The book was published in a distant 2022 year by Alpina Publishing House. It is a compilation of Vladimir's ideas, backed up by quotations from 250+ interviews with successful entrepreneurs and top managers.
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Primavera Park (Category Kids)
Primavera Park (Rubric Kids) We got out with the children in a recently opened park on the banks of the Moskva River. The kids liked the novelty of the playgrounds with slides and sand, and my wife and I at least some variety. In the morning we managed to walk around the park on Khodynka and decided to go to a new place.
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ACM Professional Membership (Category ComputerScience)
ACM Professional Membership (Rubric ComputerScience ) A year ago, told ACM Professional Membership to access the O’Reilly platform and whitepapers published in the Association for Computing Machinery journals (ACM).
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Sale in the publishing house “Peter” in the last weekend of summer (Category Sales)
Sale in the publishing house “Peter” in the last weekend of summer (Rubric Sales ) In publishing house discount sale 35% on paper books and 50Percent on electronics. To get this discount, you need to use the promo code "Paper" (Or "Electronic" if you buy an electronic version.) when ordering. Nana past sales I have already bought myself a pack of books, and this time I noticed the following books, the last three of which I bought for my collection. - Technical Director.
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JVM Day at T Bank (AI column)
JVM Day at T Bank (Rubric AI ) This sunny Saturday afternoon I spent in great company in our office at the confe. JVM Day. I was invited to participate in a panel discussion. Developer Tools – Plugins vs AI Agents "where we discussed both classic plugins for IDE and modern and modern AI tools speed up code writing." The discussion was moderated by my colleague, Pavel Gordeev, and the gentlemen participated in the discussion. - Evgeny Nenakhov, CTO CDP BigData, MWS (MTS Web Services) - Lexander Shustanov, Product Manager, Haulmont
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Machine Learning System Design (Category ML)
Machine Learning System Design (Rubric ML ) While I was resting on the Putorana Plateau without the Internet, I read a book.ML System Design" from Valery Babushkin and Arseny Kravchenko. It was interesting to me for two reasons: The theme of classic system design And I'm interested in machine learning.) I like the idea of the authors that the design of systems (ML systems including) This is a multi-stage process, where skills from various areas are useful, which should be used within the framework of a systematic approach.
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Arctic certificate ( Travel)
Arctic certificate ( Travel ) The organizers of our tour to the Putorana Plateau, which I have already mentioned. toldAt the end of the tour, all participants were given an art certificate of this polar explorer:) Interestingly, I lived for the first eighteen years near the Arctic Circle, but never crossed it. And now this certificate has added to my collection of commemorative papers, but I have already added beautiful pictures to the post myself:)
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️ (AI column)
Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️ (Rubric AI ) Thomas Donke, CEO of Github 2021 early August goodbye And he announced his departure. The decision marked a turning point in GitHub’s history as Microsoft decided not to appoint a new independent CEO. Instead, the platform integrates deeper into the CoreAI block, with the leadership team reporting inside the Microsoft structure. The changes occurred for two reasons. n 1. Thomas Donke wants to return to his startup roots (How much will we really appreciate from Thomas's work?) 2.
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Code of Leadership 51 - Interview with Alexey Fyodorov about Management & Conferences (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 51 - Interview with Alexey Fyodorov about Management & Conferences (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Alexei Fedorov, one of the founders of JUG.RU, who holds cool conferences on various technologies in the Russian market. Alexey and I talked about his interesting path through science and technology, and then to organizing conferences. We talked about the first conference for managers, which is called InBetweenWhich I'm talking about. told separately.
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Putorana Plateau (Category Travel)
Putorana Plateau (Rubric Travel ) So the trip to the Putorana plateau ended, there was only a flight to Moscow. The views were amazing, the trip to the hill is exhausting, the bath and bathing in Lake Lama are perfect, the company is excellent. The only thing is that you have to go here for two weeks, not four days. So I'll be back with my wife and kids, but we'll take simpler routes.
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Apache Iceberg: What It Is and Why Everyone's Talking About It (Data column)
Apache Iceberg: What It Is and Why Everyone's Talking About It (Rubric Data ) Excellent. brief Tim Berglund's VP Developer Relations in Confluent is about Apache Iceberg and why it's been talked about so much. To put it simply, Apache Iceberg is an open analytical table format that brought ACID transactions and the evolution of the scheme to the world of raw data lake. In this video, Tim, in addition to Iceberg, also talks about TableFlow from Confluent, which is an automatic materialization of Kafka-topics in the Iceberg table.
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Reorganizing Meta AI Labs: The Structural Turn to Superintelligence (AI column)
Reorganizing Meta AI Labs: The Structural Turn to Superintelligence (AI column) I recently read a note by Alexander Wang.Superintelligence is coming", from which it appears that Meta (banned organization in Russia) The largest reorganization of its AI divisions in the company’s history, bringing all AI teams together under the new Meta Superintelligence Labs structure. (MSL). This fourth reorganization in the past six months aims to accelerate the achievement of superintelligence.
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InBetween 2025 (Category Management)
InBetween 2025 (Rubric Management ) The first management conference will be held this autumn. InBetween JUG.RU is aimed at middle managers stuck between strategy and tactics. In order to understand what she called in my podcast "Code of Leadership" Lesha Fedorov, co-founder of JUG.RU and ideological inspirer of this conference. The release itself will be a little later, but for now I will share my understanding of this conference, for which I studied all the reports that will be at the conference before communicating with Lesha.
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norilsk (Category Travel)
norilsk (Rubric Travel ) I never knew I would ever be in Taimyr, but I happen to be here for the next four days. I’m going to see what the actual production looks like, not the whole digital story. And then you can go to the Putorana plateau... if the plateau is really as picturesque as expected, then I will come here again, but with my family. So far I have only seen Norilsk itself and it looks like an industrial center.
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Code of Leadership 50 - Interview with Sergey Mikhalev about Odnloklassniki, VK, T-Bank and Data Platform (Data column)
Code of Leadership 50 - Interview with Sergey Mikhalev about Odnloklassniki, VK, T-Bank and Data Platform (Rubric Data ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Sergey Mikhalev, who works as the technical director of the data platform at T-Bank. Before that, Sergey managed to put a hand to the date platforms of Odnoklassniki and VKontakte. In this video, Sergey and I discussed his career path, which was connected with big data all the way.
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System Design Interviews: What, why and how? (Career column)
System Design Interviews: What, why and how? (Rubric Career ) A story. About system design inteview at the conference Rupor Lead. In general, this conference was devoted to how the hiring market and processes are changing, when Gen AI changes the rules of the game, and services for job seekers are growing like mushrooms. Speakers talked about how the process looks from the other side, and I had to talk about an interview on system design, where I answered questions.
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Conference "Season of code in St. Petersburg" (Category Conference)
Conference "Season of code in St. Petersburg" (Rubric Conference ) 6 and 7 In September, the engineering community of St. Petersburg will gather for the brightest festival of technologies.Code season? This is not just a conference, but a real point of attraction for developers, architects, DevOps and everyone who drives progress in IT. You're waiting. two days hardcore reportFirst-hand case studies: real-life experiences, facaps, architectural solutions, tools that grew out of pain and experimentation.
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Research Insights Made Simple 16 - Impact of Generative AI in Software Development (AI column)
Research Insights Made Simple 16 - Impact of Generative AI in Software Development (Rubric AI ) This one release Discuss the Dora report on the impact of AI on software development. DORA is the de facto standard in the world of devops and developer productivity surveys. 2025 They published a report on the impact of AI based on a survey. 2024 years. I am discussing this with Igor Kurochkin, who has more 12 years of experience in the industry, including 6 years in consulting.
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About System Design interview in the framework of the Confa "Lida mouthpiece" 3: Lead in search" (Career column)
About System Design interview in the framework of the Confa "Lida mouthpiece" 3: Lead in search" (Rubric Career ) Here it comes. 21 In August, which means tonight I'm going to talk about system design at the horn lead conference. In general, this is already in this series and it is devoted to how the hiring market and processes are changing, when Gen AI changes the rules of the game, and services for job seekers are growing like mushrooms. Speakers will talk about how the process looks from that side.
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A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values (AI column)
A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values (Rubric AI ) Interesting. article David A. Bell, professor of history at Princeton University and an expert on the Enlightenment. In this article, David critically analyzes the claims of techno-optimists that the current development of AI is similar to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. According to him, AI not only does not bring educational values, but actually undermines their foundations. But first we need to start with the similarities between these eras.
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The Gentle Singularity (AI column)
The Gentle Singularity (Rubric AI ) A couple of months ago, Sam Altman wrote an essay.Soft singularityIn which he shared his vision of the “soft” technological revolution. (It's funny that the phrase "soft revolution" is an oxymoron.). Sam believes that humanity has already passed the point of no return in the development of artificial intelligence and gained a second cosmic speed. But Sam's concept differs from the conventional apocapolyptical scenarios described by the conditional Jeffrey Hinton. (about the position I've already taken told).
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Code of Leadership 49 - Interview with Artem Puliavin about Tech Management at Alpina, FoodMate, FoodFox, CityMobile, CityDrive (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 49 - Interview with Artem Puliavin about Tech Management at Alpina, FoodMate, FoodFox, CityMobile, CityDrive (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Artem Pulyavin, who works as the technical director of CityDrive. Before that, Artem managed to put his hand to CityMobil, Delivery Club, Food Fox. (Now it's Yandex Food.)and Alpina Digital. In this video, we had time with Artem to discuss his career path and the periphery of being a technical manager, as well as how he started his business at school.
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Big Tech Night (Category Engineering)
Big Tech Night (Rubric Engineering ) 12 September will be held in Moscow conferenceT-Bank together with Yandex, Sber, X5 and Lamoda will arrange an analogue of the night of museums, but in the big of those companies. The five venues will feature presentations, dive tours, product demos, a soft skil lab, parties and networking. Each participant can visit before 3 Nights per night: The first is the key. (launch)You can then travel by shuttle or by yourself. In general, the mechanics will be very interesting, and among the tracks will be the following:
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Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel - Part II (AI column)
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel - Part II (Rubric AI ) Continue. story Bryan predicts that ChatGPT will be the next major distribution platform based on several factors:
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Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel - Part I (AI column)
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel - Part I (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. interview Bryan Balfour on the future of distribution channels and analysis of the cyclical model of such platforms. Brian is the founder and CEO of the company. Reforge An educational platform that has historically specialized in teaching product and user growth. The company has recently moved to develop its own products, including Reforge Insights.
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The end of the mega-employer (Category Economics)
The end of the mega-employer (Rubric Economics ) Recently, Business Insider came out. curious How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Corporate America U.S. tech giants are undergoing a radical transformation that could end more than a century of mega-employers.