Iouri Khramtsov

Estimating software projects without fooling yourself

There are people who’ll tell you that you can’t or shouldn’t estimate software work, to the point of outright refusing it. I fundamentally disagree with…

Sep 29 • Iouri Khramtsov

Neat trick to make big PRs readable: reslicing them into small commits

It’s pretty hard to review a PR with a +4k/-1k changeset that touches 72 files.

Sep 26 • Iouri Khramtsov

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If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you’re not managing quality right

One common take on the coding agents that I see goes something like this: “Sure, AI helps you output more code, but won’t the quality suffer?”

Sep 14 • Iouri Khramtsov

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What to do when your coworker uncritically copy-pastes AI

Or, how to politely discourage others from becoming AI meat proxies

Sep 7 • Iouri Khramtsov

Intro to project management for developers: Part 2 - Design and Planning

If you haven’t read Part 1, you may want to start there.

Sep 7 • Iouri Khramtsov

Intro to project management for developers: Part 1 - Starting a project

As a software engineer, as you grow in seniority, at some point you may be asked to lead the delivery on a feature, an initiative, or a project of some…

Sep 6 • Iouri Khramtsov

August 2026

AI agents aren’t people, so don’t bother lecturing them

As I browse around Reddit or Hackernews, I regularly see screenshots like this (link to post):

Aug 31 • Iouri Khramtsov

My Spec-First Workflow for AI Coding Agents

If you’ve used AI agents enough, you may have noticed that for really simple tasks you can just prompt them, and for more complex tasks you may want to…

Aug 28 • Iouri Khramtsov

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September 2024

Canadian housing crisis: what will it take to fix it?

What exactly is the scale of the housing crisis in Canada?

Sep 8, 2024 • Iouri Khramtsov

April 2022

My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time

TL;DR: After the analysis in this post, I started using SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY, but it may not be the best sequence for you.

Apr 22, 2022 • Iouri Khramtsov

REST API design: lessons learned from going down the wrong (and right) paths

Recently I had a chance to participate a sort of retrospective at work on how we organize and write REST API endpoints.

Apr 22, 2022 • Iouri Khramtsov

June 2021

Progress in neural electrodes

Suppose you want to collect some signals from neurons in the brain.

Jun 28, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov