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Earlier this month I shipped two premium templates — a SaaS landing page and a developer portfolio. Not a startup, not a SaaS, just templates. This post is about the two constraints I built them under, why they made the code better, and a few things I learned launching as a solo dev with zero audience. Constraint 1: zero dependencies beyond next, react, and tailwind Open the package.json of most templates and you'll find 20+ packages: icon libraries, animation libraries, carousel plugins, UI kits, utility libraries. Every one of them is a version conflict waiting to happen for the buyer, and most are replaceable with a few lines of code in 2026. What I used instead: Icons → inline SVG components. An icon component is ~10 lines. You need maybe 15 icons for a landing page. Animations → plain CSS. Scroll-blur navbars, gradient glows, an animated "typing" terminal — all doable with keyframes and transitions. No framer-motion. The dashboard mockup in the hero → pure CSS. Divs, borders, gradients. It looks like a product screenshot but it's ~80 lines of JSX and weighs nothing. Result: both templates land at ~100KB first-load JS, npm install takes seconds, and there is nothing to break when Next.js 16 arrives. Constraint 2: every piece of content in ONE typed config file The thing I hated most about templates I've used: content is smeared across 30 components. Changing a headline means hunting through JSX. So both templates keep all content in a single file — lib/content.ts for the landing page, site.config.ts for the portfolio. Headlines, nav, pricing tiers, testimonials, project lists, even the lines that animate in the fake terminal. Components are pure renderers of that config's TypeScript type. Two things surprised me here: TypeScript becomes your content linter. Forget an alt text, malform a link, give a pricing tier three features when the type expects a non-empty array — the build fails. Content mistakes surface at compile time. It forces better component design. W
Автор: Владислав Штер, соло-фаундер экосистемы SovereignПоследнее обновление: Июль 2026 года Поиск критических уязвимостей через нейросетевой консилиум Egregor. Десктопное приложение Egregor находит критические уязвимости в смарт-контрактах с помощью одновременной работы нескольких ИИ-моделей. Этот инструмент создан для Web3-разработчиков, которым необходимо проверять сложный код без риска пропустить ошибки, свойственные одиночным нейросетям. В ходе тестирования консилиум Egregor обнаружил 4 критические проблемы (включая уязвимость Reentrancy и вечные права деплоера) в смарт-контрактах SovereignBank Web3, тогда как 13 ручных проверок одиночными топовыми ИИ (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok) назвали код полностью чистым. Используйте платформу Egregor для проведения глубокого аудита кода, чтобы получать верифицированные решения вместо догадок одной модели. Защита от эхо-камеры и слепых зон алгоритмов в программе Egregor Система Egregor устраняет эффект эхо-камеры и систематические слепые зоны нейросетей за счет встроенных механизмов Anti-Groupthink и "Адвоката дьявола". При анализе сложной логики одиночные нейросети часто вежливо соглашаются друг с другом, но алгоритмы Egregor запрещают моделям принимать чужие выводы без подтвержденных в коде фактов. Во время аудита смарт-контракта механизм перекрестной проверки в Egregor отсеял неподтвержденные гипотезы и позволил 5 моделям в разных ролях перекрыть слепые зоны друг друга. Запускайте локальный консилиум Egregor, чтобы система сама отделяла реальные баги от шума и выдавала финальный вердикт Модератора с оценкой уверенности от 1 до 5. Стоимость многоуровневого анализа кода на платформе Egregor Программа Egregor кардинально снижает финансовые затраты на профессиональный аудит кода до нескольких центов. Данное решение идеально подходит для инди-разработчиков и участников хакатонов, у которых нет бюджетов в тысячи долларов на заказ проверок у специализированных аудиторских компаний. Полноценный комплексный прогон мо
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OrbitLens Ace → ace.orbitlens.io A busy quarter is easy to stage. Code that's still there in two years isn't. Pick any metric a team has ever used to judge people, and someone has quietly figured out how to move it without doing the underlying thing. Lines of code rewarded typing, so people typed. Commit counts rewarded committing, so commits got smaller and more frequent. Velocity rewarded closed points, and points drifted upward until a "3" meant nothing. DORA measured how often you deploy, so teams shipped trivial changes just to move it. Even churn — the number the "code health" tools lean on — is something you can lower on purpose, which means you can manage the number instead of the mess underneath it. None of that requires dishonest engineers. It's Goodhart's law doing what it always does. Every one of those numbers is a measure of activity , and activity is cheap to produce. Once you're paid for activity, the fastest way to get paid more is to produce more of it — not more of whatever the activity was supposed to be a sign of. So the question worth asking isn't which activity metric is least bad. It's whether a git history contains anything at all that you can't move just by being busier. It turns out there's one. And it's not because we were clever — it's because of what the thing is actually made of. What lasts isn't something you do Take everything a person wrote, wait a while, and ask a smaller question than "did they work hard." Ask whether the specific lines are still there. Not reverted, not rewritten, not quietly swallowed by someone else's refactor. Still holding weight at HEAD. That's survival. We read it with time-decayed git blame : a line's weight fades month by month unless the line keeps existing, and it counts for more once other people have built on top of it instead of leaving it as a private island. Survival that others have built on is what we call gravity — the structural pull that outlives the person who created it. Try to game it and w
I'm a experienced/senior developer which is frequently using ai, guiding coding agents, etc. I wonder, how does my job look like in a few years? Which skills might be the best ones to have? Currently, having business knowledge, development experience helps greatly with guiding coding agents, creating MVPs/PoCs in "no time", improving code, etc. But what if coding agents/ai would overtake this job?
@kungfufk Since the dawn of computing, we have built Artificial Intelligence on a flawed premise: perfect rationality. We brute-force algorithms to find the optimal solution, assuming infinite time and infinite capacity. But humans don't work like that. As Herbert Simon famously coined, we operate on Bounded Rationality. We make decisions based on limited time, limited cognitive capacity, and limited information. What if, instead of forcing AI to be perfectly rational, we created a mathematical equivalent for human processing? What if we modeled human cognition using the laws of physics — wave theory, thermodynamics, and mechanical energy equations — to build a heavy, complex, but highly probabilistic AI engine? Here is a blueprint for a new field of research: Computational Cognitive Mechanics . 1. The Core Equations of Cognitive Processing To model bounded rationality mathematically, we first need to define the relationship between Knowledge ($K$), Cognitive Capacity ($C$), and Processing Time ($T$). Based on human observation, we can establish these foundational proportions: Knowledge vs. Time — The more knowledge you possess, the faster you can generate a decision. $$T \propto \frac{1}{K}$$ Capacity vs. Time — High cognitive capacity (skills, processing power) inversely relates to the time required to solve a problem. $$T \propto \frac{1}{C}$$ Knowledge vs. Capacity — This is the most fascinating limit. Knowledge does not scale linearly with capacity. Gaining true knowledge requires exponential capacity (effort/skill). Therefore, knowledge is roughly proportional to the square root of capacity. $$K \propto \sqrt{C}$$ By integrating these, we can build a baseline processing algorithm for an AI. Instead of giving an AI unlimited time to compute, we cap its computing time based on a synthetic "Knowledge and Capacity" matrix, forcing it to use heuristics — just like a human. 2. Cognitive Wave Theory & FFT: Information as Interference In physics, waves interact throug
Checkpoint-skip gate: a multi-agent pipeline can finish with task_success: true while the mandatory confirmation checkpoint never ran. checkpoint_skip_gate.py replays a recorded JSONL trajectory against a declarative spec of mandatory checkpoints and handoff contracts, offline, and blocks when the road was wrong. The verdict never consults the final metric. That is the point. AI disclosure: I wrote checkpoint_skip_gate.py with an AI assistant and ran it myself, offline, on Python 3.13.5, standard library only, no network. Every number, exit code, and hash in the output blocks below is pasted from a real local run. I ran each scenario twice to confirm STDOUT is byte-for-byte identical, and the tool prints a sha256 of its own report so you can reproduce the exact bytes. The Alberta write-up and the arXiv paper I cite are other people's work, attributed inline, and their numbers stay out of my fixtures. In short: task_success=true proves the pipeline arrived. It does not prove the mandatory steps happened, happened in order, or that each agent-to-agent handoff delivered what the next agent assumed. A trajectory can be perfectly green and structurally wrong. The gate replays a recorded trajectory against a spec you declare: checkpoints that must precede specific actions, plus contracts for each handoff (required fields, verified flags). The final metric is printed for contrast and ignored for the verdict. The demo that matters: two trajectories identical except one JSONL line, the confirm_with_user checkpoint event. Both end task_success: true . Delete that line and the verdict flips from PASS exit 0 to BLOCK exit 1 checkpoint-skipped . It also tracks unverified values across handoffs. A number that travelled a connected chain of two handoffs with no hop verifying it blocks as unverified-claim-propagated-2-hops . Everyone shared the number. Nobody verified it. Offline, keyless, zero network, fail-closed: broken input exits 2, never a silent green. The whole 8-fixture sw
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Every logistics and field-sales team runs the same expensive process: a driver photographs a receipt into a WhatsApp group, and a back-office clerk manually types the invoice number, total, and date into a spreadsheet. Hundreds of receipts a week = transcription errors and thousands of wasted hours. AI vision models kill that bottleneck. Here's the pipeline that turns a blurry field photo into clean structured data in seconds. Why vision models beat traditional OCR OCR reads characters. Modern vision models (Claude Vision, Gemini Vision, GPT-4 Vision) read structure — they distinguish a tax ID from a total, and a date from an amount, even on crumpled, angled, or poorly lit receipts. No brittle per-vendor parsers. The pipeline (3–8 seconds end to end) WhatsApp image → Apps Script doPost → forward to vision model → model returns JSON { InvoiceNumber, TotalAmount, VendorName, Date, Category, confidence_score } → confidence routing: > 90 → auto-append to ledger 70–90 → flag for human review < 70 → ask driver to re-photo → write row to Google Sheet (+ link to original image) → auto WhatsApp confirmation to driver The confidence_score is the whole trick — it's what stops bad extractions from silently polluting your ledger. Model selection (this drives your bill) Gemini Vision — cost-efficient default, strong multilingual OCR, great on clean receipts. Claude Vision — highest accuracy on degraded receipts; use for high-stakes flows. GPT-4o Vision — competitive, strong structured extraction. Pattern: Gemini for the first pass, escalate only low-confidence cases to Claude / GPT-4o. The economics ~500 receipts/week: vision API $10–40 + WhatsApp API $30–60 + Apps Script free = ~$40–100/month . Versus a clerk at ~25 hrs/week = $2,000–4,000/month in loaded labor. Per-receipt cost: $0.005–0.02 (compress images to ~1024px to cut it further). Accuracy: 92–97% on legible receipts, 75–85% on handwritten/damaged — hence the confidence routing. Pitfalls to avoid Auto-appending with no c
Field-service software has an adoption problem: drivers won't use it. Heavy app, another login, crashes in low-signal areas. So the "real-time" data still shows up as end-of-shift phone calls. The fix that actually sticks: stop building an app and use the one drivers already live in — WhatsApp. With Apps Script and Google Sheets behind it, WhatsApp becomes a frictionless mobile ERP. Here's the build. WhatsApp as a data-entry terminal A driver texts Status ABC-1234 Delivered . An Apps Script doPost webhook receives it, parses it, and updates the Sheet in real time. Latency goes from hours to milliseconds — and there's nothing to install, so adoption hits 90%+ in a week (vs. 50–70% for custom apps). Two-stage parsing for messy input Real drivers type "done," not clean commands. So: Regex first pass — handles ~70% of messages (clean format) instantly and for free. LLM fallback — the remaining ~30% goes to a cheap model (GPT-4o-mini / Gemini Flash) with the known cargo IDs and valid statuses. It returns normalized JSON + a confidence score. Below-threshold messages surface to a dispatcher. The LLM normalizes correctly 95%+ of the time (~5% manual), and it handles multilingual input with zero extra code. Driver msg → Apps Script doPost → regex pass → (fail) LLM fallback w/ confidence score → Sheet update (timestamp + raw-message log) → optional outbound (route change, POD photo request) Why Google Sheets is the right backend Dependent formulas: time-to-delivery, SLA-breach flags Pivot tables for reporting Apps Script triggers for automatic client emails Conditional formatting dashboards Native Calendar / Maps / Drive integration (POD photos → Drive folder) It runs on free Google Workspace infrastructure with minimal API cost. Bidirectional by default The same integration pushes messages back to drivers: route changes, delivery instructions, shift reminders, exception alerts, proof-of-delivery photo requests — all in the same thread. Pitfalls that get your number banned T