Can AI Spot a Bad Business Plan?

We already knew how these businesses ended. Could a chatbot have seen it coming from the plan alone?

Oct 31 • Igor Plotnikov

How I test a Rust GUI (desktop and WASM) with an AI agent

An app with no DOM and no selectors. What made it testable, and what an AI agent finds at night.

Oct 29 • Igor Plotnikov

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Where did the Software Money Go in October 2026?

I spent one day in October 2026 counting job postings on seven boards,

Oct 26 • Igor Plotnikov

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Killing Shorts and Reels

Building an anti-Shorts extension in 15 minutes

Oct 20 • Igor Plotnikov

Democratization of Software, and What Follows

I wrote an image editor in three days. Music already showed us how this ends.

Oct 11 • Igor Plotnikov

Bringing back the dead... programs

Taking a Windows 3.0 binary, and turning it into a Rust code running everywhere

Oct 7 • Igor Plotnikov

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My Stonehenge, in 3D

AI perfectly understands standard 2D house plans, and can drive Blender to create renderings. Would you pay for this?

Oct 1 • Igor Plotnikov

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September 2026

AI DETECTORS AS A FORM OF AUDIENCE CAPTURE

Substack's new badge punishes the honest and guards the incumbents.

Sep 29 • Igor Plotnikov

FORMAL METHODS CAN START SMALL

Use Agda to write down what your code must do, then let the tests check your code against it.

Sep 22 • Igor Plotnikov and Valentyn Kamyshenko

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tell the AI What I Mean

From x = x + 1 to Agda.

Sep 14 • Valentyn Kamyshenko

Is Moscow the ultimate 15-minute city?

My musings after a trip to the Russian capital

Sep 8 • Igor Plotnikov

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July 2026

The twelfth transfusion

In 1908 a Bolshevik dreamed of sharing blood so no one would grow old alone, and it killed him. A century later the most measured man in longevity put a…

Jul 30 • Igor Plotnikov