Book Cube: 2025, page 7
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 7: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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Turbo ML Conf (AI column)
Turbo ML Conf (Rubric AI ) This Saturday I decided to spend on our conferenceListening to stories about ML/AI. Specifically, I am now listening to a keynote report from Viti Tarnavsky, who is in charge of AI at T-Bank.
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Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI (AI column)
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI (Rubric AI ) I saw it. play Andrew Ng at AI Startup School by Y Comibnator Andrew is co-founder and principal partner AI Fund, co-founder and chairman CourseraHe is the founder of DeepLearning.AI and an associate professor at Stanford University. It is interesting that AI Fund is a venture studio created in 2018 It works as a “co-founder” of startups, helping entrepreneurs build AI companies from scratch.
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Integrate AI into development processes in a large company (AI column)
Integrate AI into development processes in a large company (Rubric AI ) I gave this talk for a month and a half at CTO Conf X, but the organizers decided not to publish the reports. So I decided on it. record for his channel And I'm going to talk about the state of the art approaches to how to decompose the work of engineers into jobs to be done scripts, and then how these scenarios can be improved.
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Summer Sale at Peter Publishing House (Category Sales)
Summer Sale at Peter Publishing House (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. I’ve already bought a pack of books at past sales, and I’ve read a lot of them, including books. In general, sales in the publishing house Peter are about every quarter, so I usually wait for their start and then buy the observed literature sometimes in bundles:)
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Netflix's Big Bet: One model to rule recommentdations (AI)
Netflix's Big Bet: One model to rule recommentdations (AI) I saw something interesting yesterday. speech Yesu Feng (Yesu Feng) from Netflix about using generative foundation models for personal recommendations. By the way, before joining Netflix, Yesu Feng worked at LinkedIn on the news feed and at Uber on the optimization of the marketplace. I have identified the following key ideas:
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RnD on steroids: Computational revolution, AI-agents with supermemory and the new era of cybersecurity (AI column)
RnD on steroids: Computational revolution, AI-agents with supermemory and the new era of cybersecurity (Rubric AI ) Appeared. decoding Conversations, which I participated in a month ago. Then we talked about the speed of change in the industry and methods of tracking important technological releases, prospects for the computational revolution, alternatives to NVIDIA and LLM security, approaches to vibcoding in the development and applications of AI assistants. For this discussion we have gathered a group of gentlemen.
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Tech Lead in the AI team (AI column)
Tech Lead in the AI team (Rubric AI ) We at T-Bank are developing a cool startup at the junction of Generative AI and fintech, where we create an AI employee, a fully autonomous support operator. We now have an autonomous agent that is already processing real sales calls in a small segment. It's Great opportunity for a staff engineer Prove yourself in a product that incorporates advanced technology. You need a cool tech guy like the one I described. round-table IC high grade at Techlead Conf.
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[2/2] Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (AI column)
\[2/2\] Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (Rubric AI ) Continue. posture About the study, I will tell about the results obtained Statistically significant deceleration of the 19% when using AI tools with 95% confidence interval The authors separately pointed out the limitations of the generalization of these findings.
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[1/2] Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (AI column)
\[1/2\] Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity (Rubric AI ) I got to know this pretty quickly. whitepaperIt shows developers slowing down when using AI. But initially I did not want to write about it - the methodology seemed interesting to me, but the sample size is as much as possible. 16 I thought engineers were too small to make loud statements about slowing down development.
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Valery Stromov: from intern to CEO Alice for 9 years (Category Management)
Valery Stromov: from intern to CEO Alice for 9 years (Rubric Management ) Interesting. interview Valeria Stromova, 29-year-old CEO of Alice and smart devices of Yandex, who came to Yandex 2016 Developer intern at the age of 20 years, and 2025 For the past year, a team of more than 700 man. The interviews are conducted by two leading podcasts “This is My Work”: Daria Zolotukhin, HR Director of Yandex, one of the hosts of the podcast, and Nikita Tolstoy, who is responsible for user experience and logistics technologies in the I Market team.
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Images of surveys in which a large proportion of questions about the impact of AI
Pictures. pollingA lot of questions about the impact of AI
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Surveys on the impact of AI on software development over the past few years (AI column)
Surveys on the impact of AI on software development over the last few years (Rubric AI ) Surveys are often the standard way to assess the state of an industry and contain valuable data. It is good when they are based on the answers of a large number of respondents. And since I am interested in the impact of AI on development, I decided to study what surveys have already been conducted, what results of their conduct, and what methodologies were used by the authors.
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Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search (AI column)
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. interview Aravinda Srinivasa, CEO of Perplexity AI, at the YC AI Startup School event. Aravind spoke about the company’s journey from a SQL prototype to a multi-million dollar “response engine”, shared plans for the launch of the Comet browser and explained why speed, accuracy and focus help the startup compete with Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. If we talk about the history of Perplexity, then it can be seen in another issue of YC.
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Review of Book "AI Engineering" 2 - Chapter 2. Understanding Foundation Models (AI column)
Review of Book "AI Engineering" 2 - Chapter 2. Understanding Foundation Models (Rubric AI ) Out. podcast with the analysis of the cool book "AI Engineering", which gives an idea of the creation of gen AI applications. The book is disassembled by Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director of T-Bank, and Evgeny Sergeev, Engineering Director at Flo. In the second series, we discussed the second chapter of the book, which deals with foundational models.
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What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon (Staff column)
What is a Principal Engineer at Amazon (Rubric Staff ) I watched something interesting this weekend. podcast About principal engineers from Gergely Orosz, the author of the newsletter "The Pragmatic Engineer". To discuss this topic, Gergely was joined by Steve Huynh, a former principal engineer at Amazon. 17- summer experience in the company. Steve has worked on many projects, from the first Kindle to Prime Video, including in-book search, payments, Amazon Local, restaurants and sports broadcasts.
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Brief overview of the T-Bank data platform (Data column)
Brief overview of the T-Bank data platform (Rubric Data ) I read something interesting. article Talk about our data platform. To summarize a long enough article, T-Bank’s data platform has evolved. 18 years, following industry-wide trends. The company gradually moved away from the classic concepts of data warehouses according to Inmon and Kimbell in the direction of Data Lake, and then to modern Lakehouse architectures.
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Meteorite: The Stones from Outer Space and Meteorites The Space Rocks That Created Our World
Covers books "Meteorite: The Stones From Outer Space" and "Meteorites." The Space Rocks That Created Our World
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Meteorite. The Stones From Outer Space (Meteorites. The Space Rocks That Created Our World) (Category PopularScience)
Meteorite. The Stones From Outer Space (Meteorites. The Space Rocks That Created Our World) (Rubric PopularScience ) See you later. book Tim Gregory, I never took meteorites very seriously. But Tim, a geologist and cosmochemist, in a breathtaking manner turns dry scientific facts about meteorites into a fascinating mystery about the origin of the universe, where beneath the charred crusts of celestial wanderers lurk secrets that change our understanding of time and space. Below I run through the key moments of Knga.
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Technology and Development in Individual Contributor: How to Turn Code into a Career (Category Engineering)
Technology and Development in Individual Contributor: How to Turn Code into a Career (Rubric Engineering ) Appeared. round-table at Techlead Conf X, where we discussed the development of individual contributors. We did it with four gentlemen.
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OpenAI Windsurf acquisition falls through as leaders head to Google DeepMind (AI column)
OpenAI Windsurf acquisition falls through as leaders head to Google DeepMind (Rubric AI ) It was an interesting night. news OpenAI and Windsurf. OpenAI failed to complete its planned acquisition of Windsurf for $3 Billions as exclusive talks expire in July 2025 Key Windsurf executives, including CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, joined Google DeepMind to work on agent coding solutions for the Gemini AI project. By the way, I used to.
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[2/2] John Carmack Reveals AGI Future: Robots, Videogames and AI Agents... (AI column)
\[2/2\] John Carmack Reveals AGI Future: Robots, Videogames and AI Agents... (Rubric AI ) Continue. story About John's talk, we need to talk about existing benchmarks and new proposed ones.
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[1/2] John Carmack Reveals AGI Future: Robots, Videogames and AI Agents... (AI column)
\[1/2\] John Carmack Reveals AGI Future: Robots, Videogames and AI Agents... (Rubric AI ) Very interesting. speech John Carmack, co-founder id Software, ex-CTO Oculusfounder Keen Technologies. Interestingly, John's Keen Technologies team includes 6 Richard Sutton, the godfather of reinforcement learning. By the way, Jonah all my peers know him as the creator of the game. Doom)that came out 1993 year:) He gave this presentation at the Upper Bound conference. 2025 mid-May.
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Anastasia, my beloved wife, received a diploma in psychoanalytic business consulting at HSE today.
Anastasia, my beloved wife, received a diploma in psychoanalytic business consulting at HSE today. She went to this diploma for two years and today the training officially ended and the diploma was in her hands. She tried personal consultations, but eventually decided to return with new knowledge in IT. She again became the head of the project office in a small IT company. She enjoys group dynamics and finding a balance between business outcomes and human relationships. P.S. We recorded with Nastya.
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[2/2] François Chollet: How We Get To AGI (AI column)
\[2/2\] François Chollet: How We Get To AGI (Rubric AI ) Finishing. story About the performance of Francois, we need to talk about his framework ARC-\ and the laboratory Ndea
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[1/2] François Chollet: How We Get To AGI (AI column)
\[1/2\] François Chollet: How We Get To AGI (Rubric AI ) I watched with great interest. speech Francois Schollet at the Y Combinator AI Startup School conference in San Francisco. Francois is the creator of the popular deep learning library. Keras (2015 year)It has become one of the key tools. In 2015 He joined Google for nearly a decade, researching computer vision and artificial general intelligence. In 2019 The year he created the benchmark. ARC-AGI To measure the capacity of AI for general intelligence.
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Interview of Vyacheslav Tsyganov Vedomosti: “Now from each dataset you can do a new business” (Category Management)
Interview of Vyacheslav Tsyganov Vedomosti: “Now from each dataset you can do a new business” (Rubric Management ) Recently, our leader Vyacheslav Tsyganov gave a great interview "Vedomosti on a popular topic about the possibilities of artificial intelligence and the transformation of the IT landscape in Russia." If we beat the main theses, we can highlight the following key points
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12-Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (AI column)
12-Factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (Rubric AI ) I watched with interest. speech studied GitHub 12 factor app for agents. Dexter Horthy is an experienced engineer and founder of the company. HumanLayer (startup). Dexter's key idea is that instead of making one big agent, you should make small, focused agents -- similar to monoliths and microservices. Dexter believes that agents are just software, so if you know how to swith and while, you can create agents.
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Research Insights Made Simple 11 - Measuring AI Code Assistants and Agents (Filed under DevEx)
Research Insights Made Simple 11 - Measuring AI Code Assistants and Agents (Rubric DevEx ) Another one. podcasting The whitepaper "Measuring AI Code Assistants and Agents" is devoted to the analysis of measuring the effect of AI in development. This report is interesting, as the guys at DX are among the trendsetters in the world of developer productivity. To analyze this article, a guest came to me, Evgeny Sergeyev, engineering director at Flo Health.
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Mini-CEO from T-Bank: Your ticket to top management ( Edu)
Mini-CEO from T-Bank: Your ticket to top management ( Edu ) We launch The Mini-CEO program is the first career development program in Russia, where students and graduates work side by side with top managers of the company. For students, this is an opportunity. 6 I spent a few months working under the wing of a T-Bank director. At this time, you will have to study markets, evaluate their capacity, run MVPs, solve problems in risk analytics, work with data to personalize products.
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Code of Leadership 43 - Interview with Andrew Ivanov about science & engineering management (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 43 - Interview with Andrew Ivanov about science & engineering management (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Andrey Ivanov, a former colleague of mine, who worked at OneTwoTrip, Tinkoff, ChatterMill and now works at InDrive. Andrey graduated from MIPT, created startups, was an engineer and more. 5 He has worked as an engineering director in various companies. In an hour and a half we discussed a lot of things.
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[2/2] How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify (AI column)
\[2/2\] How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify (Rubric AI ) If we take stock interview Farhan Thawar, which I talked about earlier, we can note the following key conclusions: 1. AI as a multiplier, not a substitute Tawar emphasizes that AI tools help better engineers more than mediocre ones, similar to how smartphone cameras benefit professional photographers more. 2. The future of SaaS is not at risk. Despite the possibility of creating personalized software with AI, Tawar does not believe it threatens the SaaS industry.
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[1/2] How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify (AI column)
\[1/2\] How AI is changing software engineering at Shopify (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. interview Gergely Orosz and Farhan Thawar, who directs the engineering department of Shopify, overseeing more 3 000 engineers. Prior to Shopify, he worked at Pivotal Labs, Xtreme Labs and co-founded Helpful.com, which Shopify acquired. Known for his hands-on approach to leadership - for example, in an interview, he recounted how personally fixing Wi-Fi at a corporate event:).
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In the office: A great interview about Postgres with Oleg Bartunova n (Database column)
In the office: A great interview about Postgres with Oleg Bartunova n (Rubric Database ) I saw it. curious with Oleg Bartunov, CEO and co-founder of Postgres Professional, leading developer (Major Contributor) PostgreSQL is a member of the PostgreSQL Foundation. The interview was taken by Vanya Botalov, the author of the Deploy channel. The guys talked for more than two hours and discussed a whole bunch of topics I would single out. 1. Oleg's path to IT Oleg started out as an astronomer, but realized that astronomy is a data science.
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Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (Category Productivity)
Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (Rubric Productivity ) Today I wanted to talk about DX Core framework 4 To measure productivity. This framework is interesting because the guys from DX are one of the trendsetters in the world of developer productivity: They sawed down the DevEx model, which I already disassembled.DevEx: What Actually Drives ProductivityandDevEx in Action" The platform team includes Nicole Forsgren, who drove the development of DORA metrics. Accelerate books.I put my hand to it.
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Code of Leadership (Category Management)
Code of Leadership (Rubric Management ) About a year and a half ago, I started an engineering management podcast called Code of Leadership. During this time, it was possible to release 42 The episode, but I don’t plan to stop there:) Podcast available in Youtube, VK Video, Podster.fm, Ya Music.
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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI (AI column)
Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI (Rubric AI ) I saw it. note Fei-Fei Lee, widely known as the “godmother of AI” (Godmother of AI). She is best known as the creator of ImageNet, a revolutionary project that laid the foundations for modern deep learning. In 2017-2018 She worked at Google Cloud for several years as Chief AI/ML Scientist. She is now a professor of computer science at Stanford University and co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.
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Sports complex for sons (ForKids Category)
Sports complex for sons (Rubric ForKids ) My wife, Nastya, is very creative. At the beginning of the year, she decided to make a large children's redesign and turn it into a large sports complex. So she turned to the guys from the channel.Sports complexes Clean-Pavlov" Together they designed a solution for our needs. (childish 4 and 9 years)And then they made the design. Just a couple of days for installation and installation and the sports complex took its place in our apartment.
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (AI column)
Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. speech Gergely Orosz is an engineer and author of The Pragmatic Engineer on Substack and the author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook. He spoke at the LDX3 conference. (LeadDev London) 16 June 2025 The largest engineering leadership festival of the year 2000 participants. By the way, I've recently told report Engineering Leadership Report 2025 " from this company LeadDev. But if you go back to the report itself, then below the sammari of his key ideas.
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Experiment with jam about the difficulties of choice (Category Economics)
Experiment with jam about the difficulties of choice (Rubric Economics ) There is a classic experiment about the complexity of choice, which was conducted and published in the whitepaper.When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing.pdf)?" 25 years ago. This experiment is often used to argue for creating services to help you choose anything. But it seems worth looking inside the experiment and subsequent research on the subject. Let's start with the original experiment with jam tasting in an elite grocery store.
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Review of "AI Engineering Book" 1 - Preface & Intro Chapter (AI column)
Review of "AI Engineering Book" 1 - Preface & Intro Chapter (Rubric AI ) It's first with the analysis of the cool book "AI Engineering", which gives an idea of the creation of gen AI applications. The book is disassembled by Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director of T-Bank, and Evgeny Sergeev, Engineering Director at Flo.
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How CFOs are navigating growth, pricing, and forecasting in an AI world (AI column)
How CFOs are navigating growth, pricing, and forecasting in an AI world (Rubric AI ) I read an interesting newsletter from a16z Foundation on fintechIt discussed growth, pricing and prediction in our new AI world.
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Architecting Agent Memory: Principles, Patterns and Best Practices (Category Architecture)
Architecting Agent Memory: Principles, Patterns and Best Practices (Rubric Architecture ) I saw an interesting one. report Richmond Alake of MongoDB talks about the key role of memory in creating reliable, believable and powerful AI agents. Well, as a memory, it is better to use MongoDB, because Richmond had to tell not just about everything good, but also to attract his vendor solution there. Richmond Alake is an experienced machine learning engineer and AI architect.
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Trableshooting. How to solve unsolvable problems, looking at the problem from the other side (Category Management)
Trableshooting. How to solve unsolvable problems, looking at the problem from the other side (Rubric Management ) I recently read a postbook about treadshooting from Sergey Faer, which actually turned out to be a teaser of the TRIZ system. ( plus a large share of the author's self-promotion ). The book was originally from the mid-2010s, but I bought a reissue. 2025 years.
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Letting AI Interface with your App with MCP — Kent C Dodds (AI column)
Letting AI Interface with your App with MCP — Kent C Dodds (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. speech World's Fair AI conference from Kent C. Dodds, a Utah-based web developer, educator and entrepreneur. He is the creator of several educational platforms: EpicWeb.dev, EpicAI.pro, EpicReact.dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He is actively involved in the development community as the author of hundreds of popular open source npm packages, instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters platforms, Microsoft MVP and speaker at numerous conferences.
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The Sands of Time Children's Camp (ForKids Category)
The Sands of Time Children's Camp (Rubric ForKids ) Today I wanted to tell you about camp The Sands of Time for Children 7 before 12 years which shall pass with 20 along 27 July in the Istra district of the Moscow region. In the organization of this camp helps Nastya, my wife, and also she acts there as a leader of one of the detachments. (It's usually the senior girl squad.). She has been doing this for the third year in a row, and Maxim, our middle son, goes to camp with her.
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Engineering Leadership Report 2025 LeadDev (Category Management)
Engineering Leadership Report 2025 LeadDev (Rubric Management ) I studied the March language with interest. report from LeadDev on Engineering Leadership, which was based on a survey 600+ leaders, which was held in March this year. To begin with, LeadDev, the creator of the report, was founded in the 2013 He specializes in engineering leadership. The company holds conferences and mitapas around the world in technology hubs.
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Why AI doesn’t work without an engineer (AI column)
Why AI doesn’t work without an engineer (Rubric AI ) I saw it. show-off Kirill Mokevin’s “Organized Programming” podcast, where he invited an interesting guest, Andrei Tatarinov, to talk about AI not only in terms of concepts, but also practical applications. Andrew himself is an experienced engineer. (ex-Yandex, ex-Google) with a background in machine learning. After working for hire, he founded his own team, The Age.
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Measuring AI code assistants and agents (AI column)
Measuring AI code assistants and agents (Rubric AI ) I read it fresh. ( yesterday's ) research On the topic of measuring the impact of AI in development from Abi Noda, cofounder and CEO of the DX platform to measure development productivity.
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ML-platform: the common good or better not (AI column)
ML-platform: the common good or better not (Rubric AI ) I saw it. curious My colleagues on the ML platform. I love both ML and platform engineering, and there was a combo, so I couldn't pass up this issue of Yellow AI Club Talks. It involves two people: Daniil Gavrilov – Lead, Head of the Research Team
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Code of Leadership 42 Interview with Andrew Romanovsky about Career as an Engineering Manager (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 42 Interview with Andrew Romanovsky about Career as an Engineering Manager (Rubric Management ) The next issue is the live interview Andrey Romanovsky about his career as an engineering manager in a large technology company. Andrey leads the Yandex product development. The store is CTO Yango.Tech Retail, and also runs the channel Lead’s Notes. (@leadsnotes). We will definitely discuss the issues below, but if you come, you can ask something of your own. What is the role of engineering manager?