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

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

May 2021

Getting started with FPGAs and Verilog

I’ve been curious about FPGAs since I first heard about them over ten years ago, and over the past month I finally gave them a try for a couple personal…

May 26, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

March 2021

Human vision system - a simple description

So when we see something in front of us, like a pencil, how exactly does the brain understand that yep, that’s a pencil?

Mar 1, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov

February 2021

Image stabilization - in humans

As I read more neuroscience, I run into more interesting neural circuits.

Feb 19, 2021 • Iouri Khramtsov