Writing code by hand is dead
The landscape of software engineering is changing. Rapidly. As my colleague Ben likes to say, we will probably stop writing code by hand within the next year.
Ruslan Osipov
Notes on technology, travel, productivity, finance, and everything in between.
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AI, Vim, And the illusion of flow
I’ve been using AI in my job a lot more lately — and it’s becoming an explicit expectation across the industry. Write more code, deliver more features, ship faster. You know what this makes me think about? Vim.
Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure?
A multitudes study which followed 500 developers found an interesting soundbyte: “Engineers merged 27% more PRs with AI - but did 20% more out-of-hours commits”.
Homepage for a home server
I have a NAS (Network Accessible Storage) which doubles as a home server. It’s really convenient to have a set of always-on, locally hosted services - which lets me read RSS feeds without distractions, have local photos storage solution, or move away from streaming services towards organizing my (legally owned) collections of movies, shows, and audiobooks.
What I won’t write about
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Starting daycare is rough
Picture this: it’s 2 am. My kiddo is mouth breathing, loudly as she’s whining trying to fall asleep. Poor kid is running a fever. She’s drooling and scratching her face because she’s teething. No one in this household have slept well for weeks.
Japan’s etiquette is weird
We went to Japan last month, and I’ve finally found the time to put together my notes. I’ve been meaning to write this for a while - my scribbles have been sitting in a text file, judging me.
The illusory truth effect
I’m a bit late with this, but here’s an interesting headline: “Liberal arts students have lower unemployment rates than computer science students according to the NY Fed”. It’s a headline I saw early last year, took a note to read further, and just rediscovered the headline when cleaning up my notes.
I shouldn’t have bought that keyboard
A little over a month ago I bought a keyboard for my phone. Here’s what I wrote:
Looking back at 2025
2025 was a crazy year - a good kind of crazy for once.