Book Cube: 2026, page 5
Book Cube publications from 2026, page 5: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Culture
Blind Patriotism - Banksy's New Work (Category Culture)
Blind Patriotism - Banksy's New Work (Rubric Culture ) In late April 2026 in central London at Waterloo Place (Waterloo Place) A new sculpture of Banksy appeared: a man in a suit with a flag on his face, walking from the pedestal. It's fun to be able to visit a new attraction in person:))
- · #Travel
Harry Poter: Film Wizardry (Category Travel)
Harry Poter: Film Wizardry (Rubric Travel ) My wife and kids were at Warner Bros Studios today where Harry Potter was filmed, and our kids really enjoyed it. And Nastya and I had already visited this attraction a couple of months ago and then I never chose a souvenir. This time I corrected myself and bought an interesting book with the backstage of making the film. Separately, I note that it contains not only the text, but also a bunch of jokes such as a letter of admission or tickets for the Quidich World Cup.
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The Internship: Google as the old techno-utopia and the new reality of AI agents (Category Culture)
The Internship: Google as the old techno-utopia and the new reality of AI agents (Rubric Culture ) I recently watched a movie with my wife.Footage" / "The Internship" 2013 years. On the surface, it’s a fairly simple comedy with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson: two old-school salespeople, Billy and Nick, lose their jobs because their familiar world goes digital and then try to get an internship at Google, even though they understand almost nothing about modern technology culture. The movie.
- · #SystemDesign
[3/3] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Category SystemDesign)
\[3/3\] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Rubric SystemDesign ) Finishing the book (1 and 2)It's worth seeing. 10 tasks prepared by the authors for training 1️⃣ Gmail Smart Compose A system that offers a continuation of the phrase right at the time of writing. Here, it’s important to keep up with very little delay, show a hint only when the model is confident enough, and further filter out failed, toxic, or inappropriate options.
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[2/3] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Category SystemDesign)
\[2/3\] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Rubric SystemDesign ) Continue. topicIt is worth discussing the framework from 7 This is important because it is easy to fail in many ways, such as Respond like a regular backend system design interview and barely talk about data, models, generation quality, hallucinations and safety Talk only about LLM, RAG, embeddings and fine tuning, but forget that it all has to work like a production system: with delays, cost, monitoring, access control, fallbacks and normal operation.
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[1/3] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Category SystemDesign)
\[1/3\] System Design. Preparing for a complex GenAI interview (Rubric SystemDesign ) I studied interesting. book to prepare for an interview on System Design, but in a new reality, when you need to design not only databases, queues, caches and microservices, but also systems around LLM, diffusion models, RAG, multimodal models and AI-powered products. This is the Russian edition of the book.Generative AI System Design Interviewfrom the ByteByteGo ecosystem. Authors Ali Aminian and Hao Sheng.
- · #Architecture
Platform Enterprise (Category Architecture)
Platform Enterprise (Rubric Architecture ) O'Reilly appeared Early release of Platform Enterprise. Two chapters are available: “Framing enterprises as sociotechnical platforms” and “Organizational structures and people”. The author of the book is Lesley Cordero, a staff software engineer/tech lead at The New York Times and, judging by the public conference profiles, works at the intersection of observability, reliability, shared platforms and building engineering teams.
- · #AI
[2/2] Ranking Engineer Agent: How Meta Turns ML Experiments Into Autonomous Modeling Contour (AI column)
\[2/2\] Ranking Engineer Agent: How Meta Turns ML Experiments Into Autonomous Modeling Contour (Rubric AI ) Continue. story About the ML-agent from the banned in Russia company Meta, it is necessary to tell about its architecture and device. But start with the basic concepts.
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[1/2] Ranking Engineer Agent: How Meta Turns ML Experiments Into Autonomous Modeling Contour (AI column)
\[1/2\] Ranking Engineer Agent: How Meta Turns ML Experiments Into Autonomous Modeling Contour (Rubric AI ) I read the March report with interest.article Meta is a Ranking Engineer Agent, or REA. It is an internal agent that helps develop ads ranking models: it generates hypotheses, runs training jobs, eliminates errors, analyzes results and goes to the next cycle of experiments.
- · #SystemDesign
Object Oriented Design Interview: An Insider’s Guide (Category SystemDesign)
Object Oriented Design Interview: An Insider’s Guide (Rubric SystemDesign ) This book came out. 2025 As a continuation of ByteByteGo’s “Insider’s Guide” line, not about high-level system design, but about lower-level object-oriented design. (OOD, object-oriented design)Ideas are transformed into classes, interfaces, states, threads, and so on. I wonder if I'm almost ready and translation From Peter Publishing with my review on the cover of the book:)
- · #Culture
Musicals in London (Category Culture)
Musicals in London (Rubric Culture ) Our choice of performances depends a lot on our lineup: last time Nastya and I, my wife, were alone and chose the musical Back to the Future, and now with all the kids we came to The Lion King. The first musical was top-of-the-line and we really liked it, and the second one is just going to start. 5 Minutes, but expectations are initially high:)
- · #Games
Atomic Heart: Soviet techno-utopia, autonomous robots and multi-agent systems (Games rubric)
Atomic Heart: Soviet techno-utopia, autonomous robots and multi-agent systems (Rubric Games ) Recently, a game has passed.
- · #BookCube
We spoke very closely with Alexander Polomodov about project management and books.
Very tight. chat on Alexander Polomodov Project management and books. Here is how Misha Seleznev reacted to this podcast:
- · #BookCube
The recently released episode with Dima turned out to be very dense and required follow up post cho list of books that we mentioned in the discussions.
The recently released episode with Dima turned out to be very dense and required follow up post cho list of books that we mentioned in the discussions.
- · #Travel
The Regent's Park in London (Category Travel)
The Regent's Park in London (Rubric Travel ) We flew and flew to London yesterday. The journey was challenging, so we had lunch and a nap, and towards the evening we visited The Regent's Park. Anyway, the kids enjoyed the walk, and today we're going to go to Zoo and walk downtown with them.
- · #Productivity
Measuring the effectiveness of software development tools and practices (Category Productivity)
Measuring the effectiveness of software development tools and practices (Rubric Productivity ) I often talk about the productivity of engineers, as well as the approaches of large companies. (look Google articlesor Articles banned in Russia Meta)and also about how we Inside the T-Bank, come on. to this. But today I wanted to talk about Amazon The authors propose a method for measuring the economic effect of development tools and practices.
- · #Management
Code of Leadership 2. Episode 2 - Don't complicate it. Project Management with Dmitry Ilyenkova n (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 2. Episode 2 - Don't complicate it. Project Management with Dmitry Ilyenkova n (Rubric Management ) Out. second The second season of my Code of Leadership podcast. This time the guest was Dmitry Ilyenkov - founder of @pmclub, a person with extensive experience in project management and co-author of the book "Don't complicate! Project management using the P3.express method, which I am talking about told earlier.
- · #Humor
The How to be British Collection (Humor column)
The How to be British Collection (Rubric Humor ) From a previous trip to London, I brought back a couple of joke books about being British. I looked through them when I arrived, but I only read them when it was time for the whole family to fly to London. I can mention funny illustrations and apt descriptions that describe what I saw/felt on my first trip.
- · #AI
The Great GPU Shortage – Rental Capacity – Launching our H100 1 Year Rental Price Index (AI column)
The Great GPU Shortage – Rental Capacity – Launching our H100 1 Year Rental Price Index (Rubric AI ) Interesting. article From SemiAnalysis about the aggressive GPU rental market, which entered the clinch and prices soared due to rising demand. The value of the annual contract for the H100 increased by 40per cent1.70 GPU hour in October 2025 $2.35 by March 2026. On-demand capacity is essentially chosen for all types of GPUs, and Blackwell clusters that go into operation in the middle. 2026 In many cases, they are already busy in advance.
- · #AI
Extract more from local LLMs (AI column)
Extract more from local LLMs (Rubric AI ) I rarely write about articles on Habr, but I could not resist it - I really liked the big and practical. article About launching local LLMs. This topic is interesting to me, but I have not experimented much before, limiting myself to running standard models in my LMStudio on the thick AMD Ryzen AI Max+. 395.
- · #Conference
CFP (Call For Papers) At JVM Day (Category Conference)
CFP (Call For Papers) At JVM Day (Rubric Conference ) We have a once-a-year tradition... bathe conduct JVM Day Conference. Last time I even played and I was given a jumper with sleeve It says "Expertly declare."
- · #AI
AI Conf - AI in development: effect, risks, reality (AI column)
AI Conf - AI in development: effect, risks, reality (Rubric AI ) I was at Oleg Bunin's conference yesterday. AI ConfThere was a discussion about AI in development, where Oleg invited a large number of technical tops. The topic of discussion was stated to be interesting, so I was happy to come to listen, see friends, and talk about this topic on the sidelines.
- · #Management
Management 2026 - Stratoplane conference. (Category Management)
Management 2026 - Stratoplane conference. (Rubric Management ) This year, we’re seeing everything change under the influence of AI, and the development field itself is transforming the fastest. Expectations from line engineers are changing, but not only – and executives will have to change. And the logic here is simple: AI will not replace leaders on its own – leaders who have rebuilt under new conditions will replace those who did not want to or did not cope with it.
- · #Games
Unravel Two (Games rubric)
Unravel Two (Rubric Games ) We recently played a game together.Unravel TwoWith Cyril, my son. 5 It turned out to be a very good example of a game that you can actually play with a young child rather than just formally include a co-op:)
- · #Humor
AI and IB (Friday)
AI and IB (Friday) Stop for a moment, you're beautiful, Ibshnik said and put everything on the hold. That's the only way you'll be safe. My platform that didn't go on sale.
- · #AI4SDLC
From AI-native development to AI-native platform (Category AI4SDLC)
From AI-native development to AI-native platform (Rubric AI4SDLC ) Wrote. article The next bottleneck of AI-native development lies not in the code writing layer, but in the development platform itself. Once agents enter the main workflow, GitHub ceases to be just a place to store code and run CI, and becomes a layer of control for people and agents. Then review, security checks, policies, and telemetry cease to be an external binding and become part of the computational path.
- · #Whitepaper
[2/2] SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pull Request Feedback (Category Whitepaper)
\[2/2\] SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pull Request Feedback (Rubric Whitepaper ) Continue. storyAbout whitepaper we will talk about what practical conclusions can be drawn from the proposed approach.
- · #Whitepaper
[1/2] SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pull Request Feedback (Category Whitepaper)
\[1/2\] SWE-PRBench: Benchmarking AI Code Review Quality Against Pull Request Feedback (Rubric Whitepaper ) When figuring out how to evaluate the quality of agents inside the SDLC came across an interesting and fresh job Deepak Kumar, an independent researcher. SWE-Bench-like benchmarks measure whether a model can write the right patch, rather than whether it can rate someone else’s PR as a reviewer.
- · #Management
Management 2026 - Stratoplane conference. (Category Management)
Management 2026 - Stratoplane conference. (Rubric Management ) This year, we’re seeing everything change under the influence of AI, and the development field itself is transforming the fastest. Expectations from line engineers are changing, but not only – and executives will have to change. And the logic here is simple: AI will not replace leaders on its own – leaders who have rebuilt under new conditions will replace those who did not want to or did not cope with it.
- · #AI
[2/2] Hands-On RAG for Production (AI column)
\[2/2\] Hands-On RAG for Production (Rubric AI ) Finishing. survey it's cool books RAG, which is in the process of writing.
- · #AI
[1/2] Hands-On RAG for Production (AI column)
\[1/2\] Hands-On RAG for Production (Rubric AI ) I read the available chapters of this booksWhat is in the process of writing. The main idea of the authors Ofer Mendelevitch and Forrest Bao was to talk about the retrieval augmented generation as an engineering system and consider the issues of data reception into the platform, access rights, latency responses, automatic evaluation, privacy and so on.
- · #Leadership
CTO 2026From Chief Technology Officer to AI-native Architect (Category Leadership)
CTO 2026From Chief Technology Officer to AI-native Architect (Rubric Leadership ) In 2026 The role of the CTO is changing radically: it is now responsible not only for technology, but also for how the company thinks, learns and delivers value in the AI era. When code, analytics, and prototypes become cheaper thanks to AI, context, decision quality, trust, and manageable speed become the main drawbacks.
- · #AI
Code of Leadership 2. Episode 1 Evaluation of the effectiveness of AI implementation with Avenir Voronov(AI column)
Code of Leadership 2. Episode 1 Evaluation of the effectiveness of AI implementation with Avenir Voronov(Rubric AI ) Out. first The second season of my Code of Leadership podcast. This time the guest was Avenir Voronov, Director of implementation from the company veai.ru, which makes AI solutions for corporate development. And we talked about a topic that seems to me one of the most practical in AI-native development: how not just to give engineers an AI tool, but to understand what its implementation really gave the team and business.
- · #BookCube
Concurrency, Synchronization and Consistency.
Concurrency, Synchronization and Consistency . Basics. Iron
- · #BookCube
I often say that you need to know the basis to develop in software engineering.
I often say that you need to know the basis to develop in software engineering. But it is usually difficult to describe, and what is included in this definition of "base" is a gentleman's set of a good engineer. But then my colleague, Zhenya Kozlov, a cool engineer, wrote a series of articles about processors, memory models, multitasking and competitiveness. This series explores the things that engineers can do that high-loaded systems that work closely with data.
- · #Robotics
How did Hyundai do what Google and DARPA couldn’t? (Category Robotics)
How did Hyundai do what Google and DARPA couldn’t? (Rubric Robotics ) I watched with interest. history This is a version of the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics and Hyundai, which shows that Atlas is no longer just a research legend and begins to turn into an industrial product. The history of this robot grew out of the need for a humanoid robot for accidents like the Fukushima accident, and now Hyundai is preparing it for real work in its factories.
- · #Management
Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts (Category Management)
Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts (Rubric Management ) I like to read management books that don’t try to sell “leadership” as a set of beautiful poses or phrases. And O'Reilly's new book.Engineering Leadership: The Hard Parts", issued at the beginning 2026 It looks interesting because of that. The authors decided to talk about the part of the work where priorities move, resources are not enough, processes are creaking, and the work still needs to be done. It was written by Juan Pablo Buritica and James Turnbull.
- · #Survey
State of FinOps 2026Why FinOps Becomes an Economic Control Plane for AI-Native Engineering (Category Survey)
State of FinOps 2026Why FinOps Becomes an Economic Control Plane for AI-Native Engineering (Rubric Survey ) I studied fresh. State of FinOps 2026. FinOps has finally ceased to be a practice about explaining yesterday’s cloud bill and has become a layer of cost management technologies, including AI, SaaS solutions, licenses, private clouds, data centers and even PHOT. (payroll). Not by chance.
- · #PopScience
Coto-mathematics (Math Cats: Scratching the Surface of Mathematical Concepts) (Category PopScience)
Coto-mathematics (Math Cats: Scratching the Surface of Mathematical Concepts) (Rubric PopScience ) I read something funny this weekend. book 2025 Daniel M. Look, professor of mathematics, explains real mathematical subjects through cat poses, jumps, boxes and memes, from the Pythagoras theorem and angle types to Egyptian fractions, Fibonacci numbers, topology, number systems, differential equations and chaos.
- · #Management
A Day in the Life of a Senior Leader (Category Management)
A Day in the Life of a Senior Leader (Rubric Management ) I've read a lot of management books in my life, but with Michael Lopp, it's an interesting story -- he doesn't just write management books, his books are like fireside stories:) It's third. bookI read it and they all look like a collection of essays that are united by one topic. This time, Michael tries to take the aura of superheroics from senior leadership and show what this day is really made of: time, people, priorities, meetings, fires and the search for meaning.
- · #Management
Don't complicate it! Project management by P3.express method (management)
Don't complicate it! Project management by method P3.express (heading Management ) Read it. book Dmitry and Valeria Ilyenkov about project management and I liked it. The book itself was given to me by Dima, with whom we have known since the days of Teamlead Conf. 2020where both performed. In my sense, "Don't complicate" is "Write, shorten" for project management, but in a good sense of the word. ( "Write, shorten" contradictory for me ).
- · #Search
Answer Engine Optimization (Category Search)
Answer Engine Optimization (Rubric Search ) I came across an unfinished one. book Rodrigo Stockebrand for O’Reilly is about how the internet moves from search to answers. The book is positioned not as a new approach to SEO in the AI world, but rather as an attempt to describe the new reality of the web after the death of ten blue links. (searchable). The author aims to give practical tips on how to make content more detectable and citable for gen AI systems. I wonder if I'm already on this topic.
- · #AI
Implementing AI in a Gregory Oster-style organization (AI column)
Implementing AI in a Gregory Oster-style organization (Rubric AI ) Recently it was the first of April, and today it is also Saturday, so I decided to tell you about my work today. article about the introduction of AI in organizations under the behests of Gregory Oster and his books from the series "Harmful Advice". These books were intended for naughty children and their parents and gave absurd advice that led to disasters. This is how I learned “from the contrary” how to do the right thing.
- · #Economics
“Economic equilibrium. The theory of volume geometry in economics (Category Economics)
“Economic equilibrium. The theory of volume geometry in economics (Rubric Economics ) I have read this book by Ilya Kuntsevich, which was published in 2015 year. I chose this book because I was drawn to the central idea that economics should be viewed as a closed system modeled by geometry rather than conventional linear mathematics. Ilya says that linear models do not cope with the description of the real economy and this was one of the causes of the crisis. 2008 years.
- · #Engineering
How AI is Changing Engineering Culture by Alexander Polomodov (Category Engineering)
How AI is Changing Engineering Culture by Alexander Polomodov (Rubric Engineering ) There's a tape of mine. speech At the Dream Teamlead conference hosted by Yandex last Saturday. I already am.
- · #DevOps
State of AI4SDLC at DevOpsConf 2026 (Category DevOps)
State of AI4SDLC at DevOpsConf 2026 (Rubric DevOps ) Tomorrow I'm the first to open DevOpsConf. report In the main hall, I'll talk about our AI4SDLC research, and what it means to us as software engineers. I will talk about how new development processes look like, how they are implemented in foreign bigtechs, as well as how we operate at T-Bank.
- · #BookCube
I decided to do a little survey to find out what content you like best on the channel. I will try to take into account your opinion and adjust the density of posts in the right direction.
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- · #Engineering
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin (Category Engineering)
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of Kotlin (Rubric Engineering ) Another interesting one. release "The Pragmatic Engineer" this time with Andrey Breslav, the creator of Kotlin and the founder of CodeSpeak, in which Gergeli Orosh discusses with Andrey how engineering platforms and languages emerge and succeed - through the right time to emerge, trade-offs, the importance of tools, compatibility with the ecosystem and a clear understanding of what a person should do and what a machine should do.
- · #Management
How bigtechs plan to implement AI-native development at home 2026 year (Category Management)
How bigtechs plan to implement AI-native development at home 2026 year (Rubric Management ) In previous articles in this series, I wrote that the industry is moving from Classical PDLC for AI-native developmentand then to AI-native organizations. In this article, I planned to look at bigtech approaches to organizing this transition and setting goals within the organization, as well as measuring results.
- · #AI
GitHub will teach its models on user behavioral data (AI column)
GitHub will teach its models on user behavioral data (Rubric AI ) GitHub refresh rules for Copilot: c 24 April 2026 Free/Pro/Pro+ user interaction data can be used to train default AI models unless manually disabled. This is not just about prompts, but also about the rest of the information: Copilot answers, pieces of code, comments and other context that the user sends to Copilot during the session.