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I too, live in Ukraine, and I have full faith in the UA army. Their sincerity and self-sacrifice and determination is undefeatable.

Language did not evolve gradually. Linguists like Chomsky have pretty strong evidence that language appeared suddenly — there are no “intermediate” or “less grammatically complex” languages anywhere in the world even among long uncontacted tribes. All evidence of language and culture suddenly appears about 100,000 years ago in the archaeological record. The evidence supports a more “Adam and Eve” creationist theory of human origins if we take human to mean “language”.

Whenever people talk about Ukrainian corruption, I point to three simple facts:

1. If Zelensky was corrupt, he could've easily sold out the country to either Putin or Trump, both were ready to make him a billionaire and let him keep power if he gave in to their demands. If high level generals were corrupt, Ukraine would have already lost.

2. The proof is in the pudding (battlefield results). The fact that the Ukrainian army has held back the Russian army for almost 5 years now (longer than the Soviet war with Nazi Germany in WW2) against incredible odds means that whatever they are doing is WORKING. And in 2026 the UA army is doing better than ever: has gained territory instead of losing it, and is now striking deep into the heart of Russia with impunity. A corrupt army could NEVER achieve what Ukraine has achieved.

3. The Ukrainian army has never had a high-level whistleblower defection like Prygozhin/Wagner who exposed the corruption in the Russian army.

Whenever people talk about Ukrainian corruption, I point to three simple facts:

1. If Zelensky was corrupt, he could've easily sold out the country to either Putin or Trump, both were ready to make him a billionaire and let him keep power if he gave in to their demands. If high level generals were corrupt, Ukraine would have already lost.

2. The proof is in the pudding (battlefield results). The fact that the Ukrainian army has held back the Russian army for almost 5 years now (longer than the Soviet war with Nazi Germany in WW2) against incredible odds means that whatever they are doing is WORKING. And in 2026 the UA army is doing better than ever: has gained territory instead of losing it, and is now striking deep into the heart of Russia with impunity. A corrupt army could NEVER achieve what Ukraine has achieved.

3. The Ukrainian army has never had a high-level whistleblower defection like Prygozhin/Wagner who exposed the corruption in the Russian army.

Mark my words, we will see war between Europe and the US in our generation’s lifetime. The latest spat between Trump and Zelensky is just the beginning.

When the USA used to be a law-abiding country, they generally respected people’s personal belongings. It’s hard to prove whether that piece of gold jewelry is not a family heirloom.

Hey, I’m Ukrainian and even we white countries could not count on the USA to protect us. Trump stabbed us in the back.

The real question is will the Russian government survive their disastrous war in some form? 50% of Russia's oil infrastructure and refining capacity has been taken out in the last six months. Do you think Russia will be able to survive that? Disruption of Russian critical infrastructure routes are getting worse by the day. In the border regions you can't even get a truck driver to agree to move a load for $10,000 across some of the highways of Russia that supply Crimea. Ukraine is doing more than just surviving. It is beating Russia.

Everything in Russia depends on Yandex. The impact on both businesses and daily life is massive. You can’t order a taxi or food delivery in most parts of Russia now. Retail chains POS systems in stores and payment systems are down too. Russians on threads and Twitter are complaining they can’t even buy things in stores. Of course, Putin himself doesn’t understand the impact because he barely knows how to use a computer and never uses the Internet.

You've got to start somewhere. You peel each layer off the dependency stack one at a time.

When I try to show my non programmer friends what AI can do, I always get embarrassed by how bad Claude and Codex are at non-programming work. For something that is supposed to be world changing and something that I find unbelievably exciting as a programmer, it's just embarrassingly bad at other basic work. Then I realized it's the harness that matters more than the LLM for all practical use cases.

Most people outside of the techie bubble simply cannot understand what all the hype is about AI because to them it's just a slightly more advanced version of Google, and a weird friend to chat with in the computer. Yes, most normies use ChatGPT every day. But very few people actually get productive use out of it.

One of the reasons why I think the software engineering profession is not going anywhere is because it's going to take a lot more visionaries like Steve Jobs to completely reinvent the computing experience of AI for so many different professions. As far as I know, most professions have not had a Claude Code moment like we programmers did. And it will take engineers to build those harnesses for millions of different use cases. And that's why the engineering profession is not going anywhere. Because even though LLMs may be commoditized (they already are), harnesses cannot be.

What is LE? Let’s Encrypt?