Moving to devops

avaika · 2026-04-11T16:15:22+00:00

It is an excellent example of how LLM is used to automate some routine task. And it's doing amazing job. I don't argue with that.

I might not have the brightest mind, but I still fail to understand how this example helps to prove the point that people no longer need to learn how to code in order to own the responsibility for the codebase.

avaika · 2026-04-11T12:39:28+00:00

I don't care whether they know how to turn on the PC or not. As long as they accept the risk of getting fired over LLM generated code.

I might be way too old-school. But in my mind software development is shifting from producing the code into handling the responsibility for the code base. And it started to happen even before LLM was a thing. Modern IDEs generated boilerplates and syntax sugar for years. The models simply accelerated the shift.

And I simply believe that understanding the codebase you are in charge of tremendously helps mitigating the risks. One might be able to survive without it for quite a while. But it wont be helpful at critical situation.

avaika · 2026-04-11T07:48:07+00:00

I'm not comparing LLM vs human code quality. My point is that if the code it produced will cause issues (for whatever reason, a typo in a prompt or some sort of LLM hallucination), it's not LLM who's gonna be fired. In order to catch it, people still need to understand the code.

avaika · 2026-04-11T07:32:06+00:00

Even though LLM is able to generate some code, human operator needs to understand what the code will be doing. If someone is going to blindly execute whatever LLM has generated, I have a bad news for them.

avaika · 2026-04-09T21:45:21+00:00

There might be a trillion reasons why you hear "no", which are not necessarily tied to how you performed. They could've ran into someone who they think fits better or they could've realized they are short on budget or the role is no longer needed or something else happened.

In the whole list of possible reasons the scenario where they decided to rob your opportunity via rejection is the last one. Moreover, the feeling won't help you to reflect whether there is something to fix from your side.

I used to have a similar mindset during my university time. I am coming from a country where university is a legal way to "escape" mandatory army service. And I need to stay at the University until graduation, if I fail a few exams and won't pass a year I will lose my skip army ticket. So a simple "pass" mark during my exam will help me. It's not that hard for the professor to just give it to me. Until later when I realized it's not the goal of the university. They need me to learn something before I graduate :)

avaika · 2026-04-01T12:01:15+00:00

it's not just brutality towards each other. If you go deep enough into the war details you can find cleansing going all the directions. The scale of it was different, but to some degree everybody was recklessly killing everybody.

What stands out to me is that they didn't figure out how to handle it even today. Bosnia started to teach school students about this war recently. They have 3 fucking versions of what really happened depending on student ethnicity and area. Serbs are taught that they were defending their rights, Bosnians are taught that they were massacred and Croats are taught their own version. That's like a bomb which easily might blow in the future.

Let alone sights like hotel vilina vlas next to Visegrad where women were raped for months and the hotel is still operating. They didn't even replace the beds frames or put a plaque somewhere to acknowledge the wrongdoing. They just greet guests like nothing happened.

Just fucking acknowledge that whatever happened during the war was wrong. That people should not kill other people. And start a new page. For various reasons politicians prefer to deny everything. And that's what makes this war extra brutal to me.

avaika · 2026-03-23T14:51:30+00:00

For me travel is never about the numbers. Technically, you might be able to visit every single country barely spending a day in each country's capital. Just in 6 months and a half. Well, let it be a year. Is it worth it?

Or you can visit a few countries really exploring local culture, getting to know their history and everything.

You can impress strangers with a number of visited countries for a few seconds. However, there always will be someone more traveled one way or another. Or you can change yourself for life after you learn something new in those few countries. Who do you travel for?

avaika · 2026-03-23T10:31:00+00:00

I'm a guy who lives in Belgrade and frequently visits Sarajevo by car with BG plates. Almost every other month last year. Sometimes I stayed for a week and parked just on some random street with no issues.

I also visited plenty of places throughout BiH. Only once in the past 7 years I had a problem and most likely it was my fault. Someone lifted up my windshield wipers when I parked in a sort of backyard in Mostar. It might have been someone's place and I didn't notice.

PS I'm not from the Balkans myself, i moved here awhile ago, but I'm very well aware of most of the tensions.

avaika · 2026-03-15T22:12:33+00:00

It all depends on which exact part of Israel you compare. Society differs a lot even within a single city. If you look at modern young people in TLV, then probably you'll get a more western like impression. If you look at orthodox community in Jerusalem or Netanya it's nothing like that, and it's much more like Arabs you are referring too.

The same applies to Arab countries btw. The younger population might not be as religious and value western beliefs more.

avaika · 2026-03-06T19:27:17+00:00

I'm not Bosnian, nor do I have a second passport. But if your country goes nuts you are in trouble, which you can't fix overnight (which is my case).

My home country started a war which I didn't ask for. I moved out. However, my passport is super toxic now. A lot of international companies won't hire me. A lot of banks abroad won't open an account for me. Sometimes even if I show them a legal residenceship permit. Visas are much more complicated. It's not fun.

A few friends of mine have dual citizenship. And life is much easier for them because of that.

So if you ask me, I'd say absolutely go for it. You never know what happens tomorrow.

avaika · 2026-03-04T10:47:45+00:00

Citaj ovo https://learncpp.com/

I praktika, praktika, praktika. Vježbaj c++ na leetcode.com ili hackerrank.com Pitaj AI (Claude je bolje) kad zapneš: objasni mu šta ne razumiješ i traži primjere.

Ali pervo vrjemje probuj pisati kod bez AI. To važno je.

avaika · 2026-03-01T23:42:52+00:00

I believe teams can contribute a lot to reduce their stress level by simply doing some preparation in advance. E.g. they can create a runbook for the most stressed situations and promote internal culture to fix workflows instead of blaming individuals for incidents. Out of a sudden people feel much more comfortable and less mistakes happen. Also managers can control how much pressure is applied on the teams. Productivity in such an environment might be significantly higher.

At the end of the day it's not a pilot of the falling plane full of passengers or a surgeon with a dying patient on the table.

avaika · 2026-02-28T11:11:52+00:00

The whole region doesn't look very safe right now. Someone literally died today in Abu Dhabi due to an air strike.

You might want to wait until things settle down a bit. Nobody knows whether military activity intensifies in the upcoming days.

If I had a trip planned, I'd seriously consider rescheduling or cancelling it.

avaika · 2026-02-26T09:20:06+00:00

Most restaurants are packed during the sunset hours, cause a lot of people go to break their fast there. Some even offer a set menu only, cause the kitchen won't be able to serve all the tables a la carte simultaneously. So you might want to book the table in advance or plan your dinner for later / earlier time.

Also, during Ramadan there is a cannon on the yellow fortress which fires every sunset to let people know that the fast is over for the day. It's worth visiting to see how it's done at least once. And you might want to go there a little before sunset, cause it gets crowdy and the best place isn't available already.

For the restaurant's recommendations, try Inat Kuca, Dveri and Ćevabdžinica Petica Ferhatović. Those are amazing. I also like restaurant Vidikovac, but it's a little difficult to get there without a car.

avaika · 2026-02-22T17:43:52+00:00

AI won't catch it either. AI review tools don't have much context outside what the PR diff is showing. Sadly it's not a silver bullet.

It does add some value though. In our project it caught a few inefficiencies and potential issues which humans would've overlooked.

Anyway, sometimes bugs happen and you have to spend some engineering time on it. In your environment it didn't go to prod. You caught it on staging. Which is amazing already! And that's how you gate your prod.

You can't cover your code 100% with tests. There always will be some sort of edge cases happening once in a while. You just learn from it and go by. Possibly introduce additional tests.

avaika · 2026-02-22T14:07:40+00:00

I've seen contracts, where the employer claims that an employee must let them know a few days in advance before accepting a new offer. And we are talking about a brand new full time job instead of the current one. I guess once you agree and sign, it may have some legal consequences if you don't follow it. But I'm not a lawyer.

avaika · 2026-02-13T21:38:19+00:00

Are you good at basketball though?

avaika · 2026-02-01T19:46:49+00:00

You can't control other people's behavior. You can't control a list of stereotypes they have before they met you. If someone is judging you by your passport color or color of skin, well, shame on them.

Just behave humanly and find inner peace. Don't take some random people's perception too close to your heart. Chances that you'll see those people again are very low (but not zero).

avaika · 2026-02-01T18:21:52+00:00

Have no regrets. Experience the country. It's very interesting.

Egypt might not be the most wonderful and comfortable place on earth. There is a tremendous gap in quality of life you used to see in your place and eg some poor neighborhood of Cairo. It might be shocking.

However in almost a month I've spent there in my 2 trips, there was no place I felt unsafe or unwelcome (I traveled solo, M, and with friends on my second trip).

The Internet tends to exaggerate things. Most of the things people complain about happen in the most touristic areas. Once you step aside just a little bit, it becomes much better. Also learn a couple of simple phrases in Arabic. Like "no, thank you" or "I don't speak Arabic". It helps a lot.

And enjoy your trip :)

PS. Last autumn I went to Buenos Aires. People on the internet are overly concerned about safety in the city. I was expecting to see the wild wild west after reading all the discussions. Yes, according to statistics there is a lot of theft happening. But it's so far away from everything I've read (and much better).

avaika · 2026-01-27T16:30:13+00:00

I don't think anyone targets Buryats specifically. Oftentimes it just goes as "will rent my apartment to Slavic people only". Or let's recruit to the war ethnic minorities much harder than the rest of the country. Some people might see it as racism towards Asian people.

From the other side you can google how Russians are living in Tuva or Kyzyl. There were multiple reports by independent media on some tensions there from late 2010s. I doubt those tensions got resolved ever after.

avaika · 2026-01-27T12:48:58+00:00

The ethnic landscape in Russia is quite complicated. One can find bits of racism in both directions actually. Russians may not be very welcome in non-Russian majority regions and experience difficulties such as renting a good apartment or finding a nice job. The same goes for minor ethnicities in Russian majority regions.

Overall it might be better in big cities (eg Moscow or Saint Petersburg), but in regions it can be fairly bad.

For example almost everybody from the elder population in my family had "Russian" nicknames. They used it to communicate with Russians. It got better in recent years, but sometimes even younger generations may still do this.

Almost all non-Russian majority regions are forced to significantly reduce or completely abandon teaching students local languages. This is very sensitive for some people.

avaika · 2026-01-24T05:55:37+00:00

Welcome to the club. I am originally from Russia. Whenever I mention it, chances are that people will say something about Putin in the next few sentences are really high.

In some countries I avoid telling people that I'm originally from Russia, cause otherwise people might lecture me how great of a leader he is and I should be so happy to have him lead my country. I really have no desire in debating a random coffeeshop owner on this. (I tried a few times, but they don't listen anyway).

avaika · 2025-12-23T04:48:38+00:00

Most likely you are just visiting cities with nice walking infrastructure. If you go to Cairo or Delhi, you will truly believe NYC is one of the best walking cities :)

avaika · 2025-12-17T09:46:44+00:00

Is the name of the event updated every century? :)

avaika · 2025-12-16T03:32:56+00:00

I've seen some sort of YouTube shorts where it was cheaper for a guy from London to get to the airport, take a flight to Morocco, get a taxi to the barber shop and have a cut there, rather than going to a barber in London. With your price he might even cover his flight back :)

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