My name is Aleksandr Furmanov. I'm a software engineer, and here are my random thoughts about work I do.
Steve Yegge wrote about Gas Town - a vision of AI agents building software autonomously. The idea took off: agents spawning agents, tools calling tools, some setups even A/B testing their own agent configurations to optimize behavior on the fly....
Embedding models convert text into vectors, and cosine similarity between those vectors tells you how related two texts are. But what does a score of 0.4 actually mean? Is that good? How much does a paragraph score against its own...
John looked at the big pile of unopened envelopes. “They contain either bad or good news. What is the average ratio between them?” - he asked himself. John loved statistics. This time some bad news arrived from a medical...
In this post I want to show how different signaling tools could help to break code dependencies: first we consider a contrived example of coupled code, then we eliminate dependencies using different techniques: Promises, Observable Properties and Events, and then I elaborate on those techniques and discuss their pros and cons.
It is been a couple weeks since my last post where I described how make Testem serve saved fixture files to emulate Rails responses. It appears there are better ways to mockup Ajax calls and organize your JavaScript code. Quick...
