Book Cube: 2026, page 12
Book Cube publications from 2026, page 12: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #AI
[2/2] State of Web Dev AI 2025: Implications for Leaders (Category AI)
The survey’s implications for team workflows, AI budgets, skills and quality controls, including the need to review generated code and protect engineers’ expertise.
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[1/2] State of Web Dev AI 2025 — Results for Engineers (Category AI)
Results from the 2025 State of Web Dev AI survey: how web developers use AI, popular tools, code quality, and spending. The survey was open to volunteers, so AI enthusiasts may be overrepresented.
- · #Startup
The story of Lovable startup that grew in valuation from zero to $6.6 billion in just one year (Startup Category)
The story of Lovable startup that grew in valuation from zero to $6.6 billion in just one year (Rubric Startup ) Company Lovable (Originally known as the GPT Engineer Project) It was officially founded in November. 2023 year in Stockholm. It was founded by Anton Osika, former CERN engineer. (experience in ML and physics)Fabian Hedin, serial entrepreneur and engineer. Interestingly, the company’s history began with a viral open-source project. gpt-engineerCLI-utilities, which allowed to generate the code base of the project on one text prompt.
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2025 LLM Year in Review by Karpathy (AI column)
2025 LLM Year in Review by Karpathy (Rubric AI ) Interesting. revue 2025 A year from Andrey Karpatha, where he talks about paradigm shifts that changed the landscape of the LLM.
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Dispatch from the Future: Building an AI-Native Company (Category AI)
Dan Shipper describes Every’s agent-based workflows, single-engineer products, demo culture and Compounding Engineering. Ambitious claims from a small company.
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[2/2] McKinsey’s Reports on Generative AI (Category AI)
The comparison turns to negative consequences, inaccuracy, EBIT impact, and high performers. Changing thresholds and definitions limit year-to-year comparisons.
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[1/2] McKinsey’s Reports on Generative AI (Category AI)
Comparing McKinsey’s 2023–2025 surveys reveals rising AI adoption, but some measures of breadth change wording and cannot be treated as a fully consistent time series.
- · #Games
Half-Life. How Valve created a cult first-person shooter (Half-Life: Le FPS libéré. Création - Univers - Décryptage) (Games rubric)
Half-Life. How Valve created a cult first-person shooter (Half-Life: Le FPS libéré. Création - Univers - Décryptage) (Rubric Games ) I read a book on vacation. 2016 Ian François about Half Life, which made a revolution in the FPS genre in the late 90s. Fwtor didn’t just decide to retell the game – he set out to follow Half-Life’s journey from design to triumph, as well as show how Valve found its unique style and what decisions determined the success of the project. In general, the book consists of three parts: historical, narrative and analytical.
- · #Kids
Lions' Land Pride Park (Category Kids)
Lions' Land Pride Park (Rubric Kids ) 2 I was with my kids and friends in January. Pride Land Lion Park (1 and 2 In January, we spent near Klin, so it was close to the park.). I already did. told About the guys, but since then they've moved to a bigger territory. tg-channel (or he already was.). This time we arrived in the afternoon and even on a winter day, so some of the animals hid in their houses and were already asleep. (winter days are short).
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AI Trends 2026: Quantum, Agentic AI & Smarter Automation (AI column)
AI Trends 2026: Quantum, Agentic AI & Smarter Automation (Rubric AI ) During the New Year holidays, you can see the predictions. 2026 year. So I came across a video by Martin Keen and Aaron Baughman from IBM that published this. survey about AI 2026 year. By the way, Martin Keen, IBM Fellow, did this video alone last year. told (You can compare with reality and evaluate what happened.).
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“We Play on the Offensive”: An Interview with Revolut Founder Nikolay Storonsky (Category Leadership)
Storonsky describes Revolut’s scale, hiring criteria, attrition philosophy, culture, AI use, and management practices. These are his account and figures from the interview.
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Developer Experience in the Age of AI Coding Agents (Category Agents)
Max Kanat-Alexander on developer experience with AI agents: standard tools, text interfaces, fast deterministic tests, contextual documentation, and sustainable code review.
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[2/2] Hard Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents (Agents column)
\[2/2\] Hard Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents (Rubric Agents ) Continue. story I have to tell you about this report. Cline-Bench - open source benchmark for real-world applications , which is announcing Cline. Every task inside the bench is: This bench Fully open source, no secret sauce, no locked datasets Anyone can use SFT, RL, eval
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[1/2] Hard Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents (Agents column)
\[1/2\] Hard Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents (Rubric Agents ) Interesting. report from Nik Pash, Head of AI Cline The main idea is to stop complicating or why smart scaffolding kills AI agents. Before Cline, Nick worked as an engineer at Meta Reality Labs. (2019-2021), Yandex (Image Search), Samsung Electronics.