ivan zakutni

Quint Code 5.0 — decisions as living project infrastructure.

Why I rewrote the interface from scratch, why engineering decisions matter more than code, and what comes next.

Mar 18 • Ivan

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February 2026

Don’t Fool Yourself: Context Graphs

Context graphs can improve institutional memory, but without identities, versioning, access controls, and auditability they quickly become a pretty data…

Feb 17 • Ivan

December 2025

Quint Code — Systems Thinking for Programmers

tiny yet powerful

Dec 18, 2025 • Ivan

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August 2025

Exception Generation is Pure Evil

This is not a joke!

Aug 5, 2025 • Ivan

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May 2025

Why Augmented after all?

Explaining my interpretation of the AI abbreviation, why it is important for me to primarily talk about Augmented, not Artificial Intelligence

May 28, 2025 • Ivan

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April 2025

Productivity through primary metrics: how to finally understand where your time goes

A deep dive into how to break free from the dopamine matrix and so-called procrastination

Apr 15, 2025 • Ivan

March 2025

Reality Check: The Skill You Should Master as an Engineer

Why you mental models fails and how to start fixing them.

Mar 24, 2025 • Ivan

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Trust Your Gut: How to Spot Gaps Between Reality and Subjective Ideas.

What is intuition, how do we train it, and why does it matter?

Mar 19, 2025 • Ivan

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Please Think!

Especially in the current, amazing LLM times.

Mar 11, 2025 • Ivan

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LLM Minions, DroidSpeak and Byte Latent Transformers

Yeah, Science!

Mar 7, 2025 • Ivan

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Don't surprise the engineers

Everybody loves kinds of surprises, but there are no such surprises in applicable software engineering!

Mar 6, 2025 • Ivan

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February 2025

Sorting the OCP sheep from the OOP goats.

Stop being too quick on judging! OCP is not an OOP principle!

Feb 27, 2025 • Ivan

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