Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 weights on Hugging Face last week, and the repo immediately became one of the largest open-weight checkpoints most of us have ever seen. If you're trying to figure out what exactly shipped and how the files fit together, the official repo is the source of truth — but it's also ~1.5 TB and 100+ files, so orienting yourself takes time.
I put together an in...
If you have spent any significant amount of time maintaining end-to-end (E2E) test suites or web scraping pipelines, you are intimately familiar with the fragility of modern web automation. For over a decade, our industry has relied on static, hardcoded locators: XPath expressions, complex CSS selectors, and DOM attribute queries like data-testid="submit-button".
This arch...
I have taught hundreds of beginner developers through CTROTECH over the past few years. I expected to help them learn. I did not expect they would make me a better engineer.
Here is the pattern I noticed: every time a student struggled with something, it revealed an assumption I had been making in my own code. Fixing those assumptions made my code better.
This article is about f...
Reflections from a full-stack engineer who started with small websites and ended up building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces.
Ten years ago, I wrote my first lines of production code for small business websites in Tbilisi. Since then, I’ve built internal systems for a bank, worked on platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users at the Ministry of Health...
Which model actually writes better TypeScript, and does it matter enough to change what you reach for? I ran Claude Fable 5 and GPT-4o through the same set of TypeScript generation tasks to find out, and the answer is more useful than a leaderboard number: each model has a different failure mode, and which one bites you depends on what you are building.
I do a fair amount of
Ask Codex, Claude or Cursor to wire a workflow library into a .NET service and you usually get code that looks right and calls a method that doesn't exist. Say the agent gets past that. It then hits the line "obtain a license key from the vendor" and stops, because that step was built for a human with a browser and an email inbox.
I work on Workflow Engine at Optimajet, and we've recent...