Book Cube: 2026, page 11
Book Cube publications from 2026, page 11: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Engineering
TAM-Eval and RM-RF from RnD Center T-Technologies (Category Engineering)
TAM-Eval and RM-RF from RnD Center T-Technologies (Rubric Engineering ) Our R&D center presented pair TAM-Eval and RM-RFIt makes the generation of modular tests using LLM noticeably more practical for visual design.
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The Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic Primitives (AI column)
The Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic Primitives (Rubric AI ) An interesting one came out in January. report From Anthropic, in which they not only talked about how Claude helps everyone work more efficiently, but also shared a new approach with economic primitives. In fact, the authors took 1 Millions of Claude.ai conversations and 1 Millions of 1P API records 13-20 November 2025 And we ran them through a set of simple economic primitives -- basic coordinates of how the model is used.
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The End of Coding: Andrej Karpathy on Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI (AI column)
The End of Coding: Andrej Karpathy on Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI (Rubric AI ) I saw it. podcast "No Priors" with Andrej Karpathy. This series was published. 20 March 2026 Sarah Guo, founder of Conviction and host of the podcast, talks to Andrey, and the main idea of the release was that software engineering was already shifting from writing code to orchestrating agents.
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Transport Protocols for AI Agents (AI column)
Transport Protocols for AI Agents (Rubric AI ) Over the past year, we have seen an interesting evolution: AI gradually ceases to be a superstructure over existing interfaces and begins to form its own layer of interaction. Remember the path that MCP, A2A, A2UI protocols have taken
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Silicon sampling (RnD heading)
Silicon sampling (Rubric RnD ) Today I spoke with a colleague who is engaged in a platform for conducting qualitative and quantitative research. ( Hey, Andrew. ). In the course of the conversation, I remembered about this interesting and rapidly developing approach to conducting them, where the LLM receives a sociodemographic “biography”. (backstory) She answers questions on her behalf. This allows you to reproduce the opinions of thousands of demographic groups without recruiting real participants.
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Measuring AI in SDLC: From Adoption Metrics to Business Value and User Outcome (AI column)
Measuring AI in SDLC: From Adoption Metrics to Business Value and User Outcome (Rubric AI ) About a week ago, my colleague Anna Gromova performed at Yandex AI Dev Day. She directs product analytics for internal platforms, SDLC processes, and AI tools, which is why she was the best person to talk about it. Speech It was quite short and had a similar structure.
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SonarSource’s State of Code Developer Survey (Category AI)
SonarSource’s survey finds widespread AI coding use alongside low trust and substantial verification work, with implications for security, technical debt and tool governance.
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From AI-native development to AI-native organization (bigtech (AI column)
From AI-native development to AI-native organization (bigtech (Rubric AI ) Wrote. continuation The article on ai-native developmentFrom PDLC to AI-native development" The main focus of the new article revolves around the idea that if the transition to ai-native development changes the engineering process itself, then the organizational structure changes further - this is evident from the announcements and actions of big tech companies that are most actively involved in the AI race. And then it will affect the rest.
- · #SystemDesign
Distributed Systems Without Magic: What CAP and PACELC Really Say (Category SystemDesign)
Distributed Systems Without Magic: What CAP and PACELC Really Say (Rubric SystemDesign ) 19 In March, I gave a lecture to Central University students on a wide range of topics – we talked about the CAP and PACELC theorems, we discussed how consistency in these theorems differs from consistency in ACID, we talked about how the declared guarantees of consistency are tested.( On the example of the project from Jepsen)Cassandra was discussed as an example of a distributed database with tunable consistency.
- · #Agents
[2/2] Agentic coding at Airbnb (Agents column)
\[2/2\] Agentic coding at Airbnb (Rubric Agents ) In the past. post We stopped at the fact that the guys from Airbnb had three goals when implementing the agency approach to development, and now it is interesting to see how they went to them.
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[1/2] Agentic coding at Airbnb (Agents column)
\[1/2\] Agentic coding at Airbnb (Rubric Agents ) It's another one. note on September DPE SummitThe one I talked about earlier. In it, the guys from Airnbnb told how they built an agency model of development and moved from classic PDLC to AI-native development. (approximately in the direction I described in eponymous). And here we are not talking about some toy applications created by agents, but about agency development in their monorepe with standard requirements for security, compliance and with 1k+ engineers in it.
- · #DistributedSystems
CAP, PACELC and consistency models (Category Distributed Systems)
CAP, PACELC and consistency models (Rubric DistributedSystems ) I'll be reading tonight. lecture with this name for students of Central University (It's good that I've recovered by now.). In this lecture, we will talk about the well-known in narrow circles theorems CAP and PACELC, discuss how consistency in these theorems differs from consistency in ACID, talk about how claimed guarantees are checked, and at the end of the lecture we will discuss Cassandra as an example of a distributed database with tunable consistency.
- · #Engineering
Just-in-Time Catching Test Generation at Meta (Category Engineering)
Just-in-Time Catching Test Generation at Meta (Rubric Engineering ) Researchers banned in Russia Meta wrote interesting whitepaper About a new class of autotests - regression catching tests . Standard. hardening They must be insured against future regressions. New catching tests You should drop on a specific incoming diff and pass on the parent version. The idea is not to wait for the bug to pop up later, but to try to catch it at the time of a review or CI, before the code is injected.
- · #Travel
Natural History Museum - Souvenir guide (Category Travel)
Natural History Museum - Souvenir guide (Rubric Travel ) Since Sunday I've been in some twilight state - fever, joint pain and head pain. I spent most of my time in bed. But today in between the temperature (afternurafen) I read this book from the Natural History Museum in London. The museum itself made a great impression on me and I looked at and photographed its exhibits with interest as I wandered around it.
- · #Space
[2/2] Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (The Mythology of Soviet Space) (Category Space)
\[2/2\] Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (The Mythology of Soviet Space) (Rubric Space ) Continue. story I would like to talk about the insights that came to my mind as I read it, given my design experience and current focus on agency development and moving development engineers into a different role than before. (Astronaut pilots became more astronauts-engineers).
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[1/2] Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (The Mythology of Soviet Space) (Category Space)
\[1/2\] Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (The Mythology of Soviet Space) (Rubric Space ) I read an excellent book. Vyacheslav Gerovich (Slava Gerovitch)Professor of Science, Senior Lecturer at MIT. Original came out 2015 University of Pittsburgh Press and Russian translation came out 2024 One year in the New Literary Review.
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Waterpark in Zavidovo ( Travel)
Waterpark in Zavidovo ( Travel ) On the second try, we drove the family to this water park and we like it here. We were supposed to come here on the eighth of March, but the youngest son fell ill and we postponed everything for a week. And this morning we got up, gathered and for an hour and a half on the payroll Moscow-Peter came to the hotel "Ryabina", settled down and went to the water park in their robes.
- · #Software
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (Category Software)
The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead (Rubric Software ) In this interesting February article 2026 Boris Tane is making a high-profile announcement about the death of the SDLC, which in my opinion reflects the situation strategically, but ahead of current approaches by a year. I think we'll move on from Classical PDLC for AI-native development And this article by Boris. mention @brolnickij on @ai4sdlc, where you can discuss posts from this channel and beyond.
- · #SystemDesign
How to Use System Design Space + Learning Tracks (Category SystemDesign)
How to Use System Design Space + Learning Tracks (Rubric SystemDesign) Got it. boarding For system-design.space. The site helps to systematically develop design skills: from basic principles to interviews and practical architectural solutions.
- · #AI
[2/2] Measuring AI’s Impact on Developer Productivity at Meta (Category AI)
Meta’s findings show uneven gains, an adaptation dip and important limits to diffs-per-developer metrics, including differences by experience and research-heavy work.
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[1/2] Measuring the Impact of AI on Developer Productivity at Meta (AI column)
\[1/2\] Measuring the Impact of AI on Developer Productivity at Meta (Rubric AI ) Excellent. speech from the guys from the banned Meta in Russia, which I have reviewed 3To better understand all the details. Performed by Payam Shodjai (senior director of product management) Pavel Avgustinov (techlead) Meta’s developer productivity areas and they told a bunch of interesting approaches + technical details about how they approach this issue.
- · #ai4sdlc
From PDLC to AI-native development (Category ai4sdlc)
From PDLC to AI-native development (Rubric ai4sdlc ) Wrote. article Medium is about how AI changes not only the speed of code writing, but the very organization of engineering work. We're gradually moving away from SE. 1.0 Process with roles, stages and handoffs - to SE 2.0Some of the engineering work is done by AI tools and agents. But it's not free acceleration. If you don’t rebuild review, tests, CI/CDs, and guardrails, AI simply moves the bottleneck further down the chain.
- · #Productivity
What Makes a Great Developer Experience? (Category Productivity)
What Makes a Great Developer Experience? (Rubric Productivity ) Interesting. report Max Kanat-Alexander with DPE Summit 2025 (More about the summit here). Max talks about three whales of good developer experience 1. Cycle time How long does it take from the idea to the result? 2. Focus How much time the developer has to work without twitching 3. Cognitive load How much extra you need to keep in mind to do a useful task
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DORA AI Capabilities Model - Review of the Report (Category Productivity)
DORA AI Capabilities Model - Review of the Report (Rubric Productivity ) I read it this weekend. report about this companion model report 2025 year, which is called "State of AI-assisted Software Development" The main point of the DORA AI Capabilities Model is that AI itself does not guarantee improvement, but it strengthens the already existing sociotechnical system – good practices reinforce, bad too. The model 7 Capabilities that increase the chance that AI will have a noticeable positive effect.
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How quietly DORA became not four, but five metrics (Category Productivity)
How quietly DORA became not four, but five metrics (Rubric Productivity ) For a long time, DevOps Research & Assesment, or simply DORA, has had a long history. 4 metrics on which the clustering of teams on different levels of elite was built. These metrics were about delivery speed and stability. Delivery speed: deployment frequency and lead time for changes MTTR/time to restore service and change fail rate This story can be read in more detail in my Reading "Accelerate")
- · #Productivity
You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster? (Category Productivity)
You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster? (Rubric Productivity ) It's opening. keynote report DPE Summit Conference 2025 (I'm talking about her. mentioned). It is told by Hans Dockter, CEO of Gradle Inc, who is associated with the theme of build automation and delivery pipeline: he founded Gradle Build Tool, led large enterprise-assemblies and has long worked at the intersection of tooling, DevEx and software delivery.
- · #Architecture
"Architecture, Management and Impact of AI on Development"
"Architecture, Management and Impact of AI on Development" I had a chat for comments on this channel for a long time, but I didn't really talk about it:) Now I've decided to change my approach and invite you to this chat @ai4sdlc where we can discuss design, technical guidance and more. And of course, there you can talk about the impact of AI on development, as I now deal with this topic full-time in my work. I'll be in this part quite often. (At least to remove bots from it.). Anyway, you're welcome. https://t.me/ai4sdlc
- · #Productivity
DPE Summit 2025 Gradle: Why this is one of the most rewarding conferences about engineering productivity (Category Productivity)
DPE Summit 2025 Gradle: Why this is one of the most rewarding conferences about engineering productivity (Rubric Productivity ) I like the conference. DPE (Developer Productivity Engineering) Gradle is held annually in San Francisco. I've often told you about the summit. 2024 year (For example, here: 1, 2, 3 and 4). This event focuses on engineering productivity and DX. (developer experience) And this year it's gone. 23–24 In September, the organizers posted the recordings of the sessions. (here playlist).
- · #Engineering
IntelliJ IDEA — The IDE That Changed Java Forever DOCUMENTARY (Category Engineering)
IntelliJ IDEA — The IDE That Changed Java Forever DOCUMENTARY (Rubric Engineering ) I saw this one. documentary About IntelliJ IDEA that came out 5 March 2026. It’s an exciting story about how a small team started out creating a product that redefines the expectations of dev tools. In the frame are both employees of JetBrains and representatives of the industry who share their memories of how it was.
- · #SelfDevelopment
How I Write Channel Posts (Category: SelfDevelopment)
How I Write Channel Posts (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) I am asked periodically how I write so many posts and if there is any help from LLM. So I decided to write about my approach to knowledge consumption and channel management. In short, the paiplan looks something like this.
- · #AI
The third golden age of software engineering - thanks to AI, with Grady Booch (AI column)
The third golden age of software engineering - thanks to AI, with Grady Booch (Rubric AI ) Interesting. interview Gradi Booch, creator of UML and Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM, on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. Gradi and Gergely Orosz, the author of the podcast, discuss how engineering's craft changes when the level of abstraction rises again (As was the case with assembler and then high-level programming languages.).
- · #Agents
An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents (Agents column)
An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents (Rubric Agents ) While flying back from London to Moscow, I managed to read this. book I can recommend it to everyone. It is written by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, the authors of the cool book Hands-On Large Language Models. told. The new agent book is as good as the previous one, and it’s still in the process of being written and only half the chapters have been written.
- · #Architecture
[2/2] How AWS S3 is built (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] How AWS S3 is built (Rubric Architecture ) Continuing this snapperI would like to share the findings for engineers and tech executives.
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[1/2] How AWS S3 is built (Category Architecture)
\[1/2\] How AWS S3 is built (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. podcasting "The Pragmatic Engineer", in which Gergely Orosz communicates with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of Data & Analytics at AWS, which leads the development/operation of S3. Simple Storage Service is one of the largest systems in the world, so you can learn a lot from this discussion.
- · #Frontend
Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (Frontend column)
Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (Rubric Frontend ) I watched another interesting one. documentary This time about the Svelte framework and its story at the end 2021 years. In the documentary we see the key characters of the community
- · #AI
Building AI-Powered Products (AI column)
Building AI-Powered Products (Rubric AI ) I read something interesting. book Marily Nika, AI Product Lead (Google, ex‑Meta) Founder of the AI Product Academy. Marily talks about what a separate discipline of AI product management looks like and how to determine what exactly we build, how we measure the quality of a product, how much it will cost in production and why users will not leave in a week. This book came out in February. 2025 I tried to give out a playbook that connects the idea → product value → architecture → operation → metrics → risks.
- · #Travel
St. Paul's Cathedral (Category Travel)
St. Paul's Cathedral (Rubric Travel ) Nastya and I visited this cathedral today and were delighted. The majestic building rises above the county and looks wonderful inside. In addition to the first floor, you can go down to the crypt, where historical figures rest, as well as climb under the arch of the cathedral and even higher, to see London around from the observation deck. In general, it is a must-see place...at least for tourists.
- · #Engineering
[2/2] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Category Engineering)
\[2/2\] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Rubric Engineering ) Continuing this snapperI would like to share the findings for engineers and tech executives.
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[1/2] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Category Engineering)
\[1/2\] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. interview David Ronka, Former Engineering Director at Netflix (came 2007)Director/Principal at Meta (video technology)He gave Ryan Peterman, Staff SWE on Instagram. In this interview, David, now retired, shares a retrospective of his career and management decisions. The main insights are as follows:
- · #SystemDesign
Knowledge Graph of the site system-design.space (Category SystemDesign)
Site knowledge graph system-design.space (Rubric SystemDesign ) Materials on the site about system design became too much and I myself needed a tool to visualize topics, chapters and connections between them. That's how I got it. knowledge-graphwhich shows 222 chapters 820 links between them. Each node is a chapter of the book, and the line is a semantic connection between the materials.
- · #Travel
Science Museum (Category Travel)
Science Museum (Rubric Travel ) We were at the Science Museum in London on a weekday and it was really cool. The museum is located next to Imperial College London, has five floors and each floor is dedicated to its theme. Entrance to the museum is free, but you can donate as much as you want. We arrived two hours before closing and practically ran through the expositions of engineering, space, flights, computers, medicine and at the exit we managed to buy gifts for children. The next time we visit London, we will definitely come with our children.
- · #Startups
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Category Startups)
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Rubric Startups ) Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir 2014 This is a summary of his Stanford course he had read a couple of years before. In this course, Peter was not talking about recipes for success, but about a shift in thinking: how to make a new category out of technology, rather than another product, which will be slightly better than competitors.
- · #Travel
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Category Travel)
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Rubric Travel ) Yesterday, Nastya and I were at Warner Brosers Studios near London, where all the books about the Boy Who Survived were filmed. We looked at the pavilions, interiors, costumes, special effects and we really liked everything. You can see that a lot of work was done, but the result was a legendary film adaptation. We’ll be here in May, but with the kids.
- · #API
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (API rubric)
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (Rubric API ) Interesting. mini-documentary About FastAPI, which lasts less 10 minutes. It talks about how FastAPI went through the ultra-fast growth of an open source project along a path of view: side-project → “industrial default” for the Python API. After the documentary, I became interested in the fate of this project and it seems that FastAPI “shot” not because it was “fast”, but because it gathered in one place:
- · #Engineering
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Category Engineering)
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. history Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, author of the C++ programming language. The whole story was filmed in the town of Aarhus (Denmark)where he was born in 1950 He studied at the University of Aarhus, where he also received a master’s degree. He then defended his PhD at Cambridge and then worked at Bell Labs alongside Kernighan, Ritchie, Morris and others.
- · #Travel
Travel to London
Travel to London Yesterday we started. 10+ hours flew to London with a transfer to Baku, and then all day wandered around it. The weather was great: sunshine,10 degrees and the smell of spring. In the end, we found order. 20 Thousands of steps and managed to walk around the city center and return to the room. Hours in 20 Local time we're out, and this morning we're going on a personal tour of Leicester Square.
- · #Management
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Category Management)
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Rubric Management ) Interesting. podcast Lenny, in which Brian Holligan came to him, co-founder and ex-CEO HubSpot. They discussed leadership and business in the age of AI: how to hire, grow and sell when old playbooks are bursting at the seams. Brian was CEO. 15 He now acts as an internal CEO coach at Sequoia and hosts a leadership podcast. Long Strange Trip.
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Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Category Engineering)
Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. documentary About the Laravel framework, which, in my opinion, occupied the niche of Ruby on Rails, but instead of Ruby, PHP is the language here. In the film, there are key people and they tell the story of the project. For example, one of the main roles for Taylor Otwell, who created Laravel and now acts as a BDFL framework. ("benevolent dictator for life")There is also a Jeffrey Way.
- · #Architecture
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Category Architecture)
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Rubric Architecture ) This weekend, Grisha and I are from the club. talk About preparing for the System Design Interview and how I came to life the way I built the site. system-design.space.
- · #AI
[2/2] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (AI column)
\[2/2\] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (Rubric AI ) Interview It was very interesting and breakthrough, but always interesting, how to translate these ideas into a practical channel.