From the Trenches
Denis StetskovPractical engineering management lessons learned in the trenches of scaling tech teams.
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The Comprehension Extinction: AI Isn’t Replacing Engineers. It’s Eliminating the Ones Who Understand.
I built our hiring process to filter out people who don’t understand fundamentals. It’s not complicated: explain how Node.js event loop works, name design patterns you’ve actually used, describe how an LLM functions.
AI Agent Platforms: The Security Nightmare Nobody’s Talking About
OpenClaw has over 220,000 GitHub stars. It also has 135,000 exposed instances.
The Country of Geniuses That Doesn’t Exist
On January 26, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 20,000-word essay predicting a “country of geniuses in a datacenter” within 1-2 years. 50 million entities, each smarter than any Nobel Prize winner. 50% of entry-level white-colla...
Big Tech’s $364B Hypothesis Meets the $650B Reality
Six months ago, I wrote that Big Tech’s AI infrastructure spree was less a strategy and more a very expensive act of faith. The thesis was simple: $364 billion in annual CapEx with no clear path to ROI isn’t engineering. It’s hope with a pr...
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Engineering Manager who's seen enough "revolutionary" tech to know the difference between signal and hype. Writing about what actually works, from system design to team leadership.
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