Artem Krylysov

Databases and distributed systems. Working at Datadog on Metrics.

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SEY Coffee in Bushwick

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What's up with Opus 4.8 using bash for everything instead of built-in tools? "It was habit"?!

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Turns out my local wiki setup, which is just a pile of markdown files tracked in Git that I've been using for a decade was so ahead of its time. With AI it's a Second Brain™ now.

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@valyala The lack of generic methods was surprising to me. You either fully commit to genetics, or keep the language simple, not somewhere halfway.

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"get rid of the css framework" -> janky output

Chrome MCP and the LLM inspecting DOM -> closer to the original

"make it pixel perfect" and the LLM using Chrome MCP to take screenshots and compare them with ImageMagick -> perfect result

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After a decade of wanting to remove a CSS framework from my personal website, it's finally done thanks to Claude! The first attempt, where I just asked Claude to get rid of the framework, didn't go well, the website looked very janky.

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This is similar to my overall experience with LLM driven coding. The LLM output gets better (at solving the task, not necessarily better code) as you give an LLM better ways to verify its output.

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63KB of framework CSS + 4KB of custom CSS is now just 6KB of custom CSS.

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I wish there were more details somewhere on what exactly the game stores and how. Sounds like a fun problem to optimize, probably by not using RocksDB.

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Apparently one of the new popular games stores its game state in RocksDB - "In 60-90 seconds, Windrose read 32GB and wrote 1.3GB from the drive" https://t.co/saviiNZ29U

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The video ends with teenagers shooting heroin in a stairwell as well. I guess the main thing that changed since then is that now if you didn't pay enough to the police or got unlucky and ended up in prison for selling drugs, you can easily get out by choosing to go to war.

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BBC reporting on Gen Z drug addicts, sellers and makers in Russia, some sharing their lives on TikTok and Telegram https://t.co/MCVrcZHl3a

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In the apartment building where I lived as a kid, several floors below our window, people openly sold drugs through a small window during daylight. When I went to school at 8AM or came back, I would sometimes see addicts shooting heroin in the stairwell.

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@techvadim Why are you building a database?

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- "Did you consider using one of the open source file formats?"
- "We didn't go that route was because of speed. We just wanted control."

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turbopuffer: Object Storage-native Database for Search by @Sirupsen https://t.co/LLlKP4UKQS

This is an outstanding talk. People are not talking enough about how unnecessary complexity, technical and organizational slows down teams and projects to crawl.

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"I learned is that it's very uncommon to have this long of a tenure at a tech company these days. Eight years working on a single piece of software and scaling it teaches you a lot about how software ages well or what doesn't age well."

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@astuyve @BenjDicken Steelcase lost me the second I found out their nyc showroom is by appointment only. I went with HM Mirra 2. Not sure if it's more comfortable than Aeron, but I like the design.