Maxim Khailo's Writing

There is now a widely held belief among managers that you can scale up your engineering team by simply adding more AI agents.

Agentic coding is the hot new thing.

No, but keep reading to understand why.

A cache keepalive is the one optimization every agent builder agrees on, and almost everyone runs it at the wrong setting.

A cache keepalive is the one optimization every agent builder agrees on, and almost everyone runs it at the wrong setting.

Origins of Object-Oriented Programming I am having a hard time explaining to people what my Abject project is about.

I went to the ninth MLSys conference in Seattle.

I've been programming for 30 years.

Software development over the last 60+ years has been the equivalent of pyramid building.

Abject: A self-aware object runtime using the Ask Protocol I May Have Created Something Horrible I may have solved a long standing problem with Object Oriented systems.

I often tell people money is a technology.

Even though Halloween has passed I have a ghost story to tell.

If you think immigration debates don't affect you, consider this: the people building the technology you use every day are now advocating for who deserves to be here, and you might not make the cut.

The real constraint on human creativity isn't talent, it's time and autonomy.

We call her the Queen Bee, evoking images of large hats, courts, and command.