Maksym Prokopov

Staff SRE managing the team at at

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

This!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Talked to someone recently who knows a lot about defense tech, and he made an interesting point: the test of most military hardware right now is whether the Ukrainians want it. They have a hot war going against a determined opponent, and they know what works.

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Такой, суки, буфет 🤣

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Preparing a new course is always a challenge: the pace is not tested, the background and gaps in the student knowledge are unclear

One of the most useful tricks I found: rehearsal

Ask an AI agent to be a student and start interacting. The output is the valuable feedback!

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@grok thank you for finding this 🙏

The closest classic examples are Crobots (1985, DOS, C subset language) and its relatives RobotWar (1981), RoboWar (1990), and AT-Robots.

In the post-Soviet scene a similar title, Robot Warfare 1 (1999), was especially popular among schoolkids who coded bots and ran them against friends’ creations

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

One of the most exciting computer games in my childhood was this:

You and your friend build a “bot” with a certain strategy and algorithms and then you start a session and observe who hunts who.

Pretty agentic vibes we had back in 90s 🤖

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

What stops you from making the agent pretty? 🤩

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@buswe_com TIL RED is one of the Tempo’s features

Thanks for sharing!

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Grafana Tempo - a distributed tracing tool, helps to understand how to improve performance by highlighting the paths.

This example shows the entire request took ~1 second, where calling Jev model takes ~478ms to establish TCP connection and ~333ms to complete the LLM evaluation.

Want to improve the response? Now you know what to cut

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

One of the cool features of Openclaw 🦞 – ability to extend UI with widgets on sidebar

Works like a charm for data intensive flows. Fetching bank statements and keeping my ledger updated + nice updated charts in the dashboard. Pretty neat! 💸

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@valeriyproklov That’s the live Grafana dashboard for the production system. Whenever I flip a feature flag that changes the email classification strategy, I expect the dashboard to reflect this on the live metrics

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Just completed experiment and keen to report

Jev dropped p95 for our email classification in email-to-ticket flow from 8 seconds using gemini-3.8-flash to 1s using Typesafe 🔥🤘

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@RBilgil I need this!

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

The speed gains don’t matter much for this asynchronous case, however, no need to underestimate the drop in costs 💰💸

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Often I stumble upon a good post on X, but not in the right mood to act on it.

The flow I found pretty useful, is to save it for later and digest my X bookmarks next morning and send it to the Telegram channel

join me, it’s free :)
https://t.co/IVTMa5gnpL

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@immoralityCode Похоже, это собирает гораздо больше лайков чем мысли про стоицизм :)

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Very cool story, imho, with better marketing potential then Navier-Stokes equation solution

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

GPT-6 Astra deciphered a 1918 German radio transmission that, to my knowledge, has never been deciphered before.

The message below translates to:

"EIN ENGLISCHER KREUZER EINLIEG X SEWASTOPOL X S4STEN X EIN GESCHWADER DER X ALLIIERTEN FOLGT 26STEN X"

or, in English:

"AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH"

Astra even double-checked its work by determining that an English cruiser, HMS Canterbury, reported its arrival in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918 and the arrival of an allied squadron on November 26, 1918.

This message is one of the ~20 WWI German radio messages that appear as one of the entries in the https://t.co/H7yLaI1edV list of top 50 unsolved ciphers (https://t.co/Qu2gp90pmD).

A minor, but really cool result!

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

@StokeWillie Yes, just explain me like I’m five years old :)

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Emacs showed what people may want: extensibility, tiled window management, remote everywhere out-of-the-box, assignable shortcuts for everything.

I always faced this struggle with Emacs bindings over the OS bindings, however, AI changed this. I almost don't need to open an editor nowadays.

Omarchy gives the same experience as powerful users of Emacs have gotten for a long time, but OS wide! What a twist!

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Didn't expect such a dramatic effect for my old Macbook Pro 2017 @MichaeldeBy much appreciated for releasing this wonderful plugin 🫶

[Michael de By @MichaeldeBy]

@mprokopov You can definitely improve these shit speaker to a tolerable experience, with some harmonic fairy dust. But let’s agree that laptop manufacturers should give us better sound hardware.

Let me know if you like the fairy dust, would love to read your experience with it.

[Maksym Prokopov @mprokopov]

Omarchy needs this as a plugin 😃

[almonk @almonk]

Have some fun stuff to share for fellow light mode terminal lovers: we call it Automatic Contrast Correction.

Users of light themes will have felt my pain. Developers have generally designed text interfaces for dark mode terminals.

There are many examples in the tui apps I use everyday: `lsd`, `btop` (with theme bg off), even my beloved `lazygit` has some suss legibility out the box. The issues are so bad, I generally switch to a dark theme to read stuff.

Automatic Contrast Correction fixes this issue by evaluating contrast at runtime between whats being sent from the server to the macOS client versus the theme mode the user is running.

Our correction pipeline finds low contrast foreground/background combinations, does some oklab magic, hue rotation towards theme-colors, contrast checking and produces an end result of theme-harmonious, perfectly WCAG-approved legible text.

All this happens in nanoseconds and is then cached for performance. It's built right into the @superlogical client.

(Screenshots above show ACC off and on)