The True Engineer
Adlet BalzhanovMonthly 5-minute essays from a senior engineer at Big Tech. Worth every minute, imho.
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If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI
I’ve been testing every new AI model the same way for a while now. I give it a real coding task, and more often than not it comes back with something solid, impressive results. Then I give it a pile of good writing samples and ask it to wri...
I’ve been living inside DynamoDB for a while
I’ve been living inside DynamoDB for a while now, building and scaling a distributed system on AWS that has to survive couriers, customers, and agents all hammering it at once (at a scale of 10+ million orders per day).
Along the way, I c...
10 system design rules I always come back to
I've been compiling these system design interview rules for years. Friends found them useful. Figured it was time to share them properly.
Rule 1 – System design is all tradeoffs. There’s no perfect choice, just better or worse ones.
Rule...
The Moving Floor
Most engineers think careers are ladders.
You start at the bottom, improve your skills, work harder than everyone else, and slowly climb upward through merit. The assumption underneath most career advice is: become exceptional enough, and...
Takeaways from “On Writing Well”
Engineers like to think of code as something you refine. You remove what isn’t needed, simplify what is, and try to leave it in a state where the next person doesn’t have to struggle to understand it.
And then we sit down to write.
The do...
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