Sergey Bolshchikov

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How to Assess Mindset and Attitude During the Interview (part 1)
How to uncover how someone really thinks — before you hire them.
Nov 17, 2025
Langchain Open Deep Research Internals: A Step-by-Step Architecture Guide
A detailed walkthrough of Langchain Open Deep Research's architecture, showing how state evolves, agents coordinate, and design patterns combine at each…
Nov 2, 2025
Deep Agents at Scale: The Three Problems You Can’t Ignore
Why context size alone doesn’t solve production agents — and how real systems handle unbounded data, parallel reasoning, and reliable output.
Jan 6
The simplest development flow with AI that works
A simple, yet powerful way to leverage AI in your day-to-day without getting into steep learning curve of tools and processes.
Dec 11, 2025
How to Interview Junior Developers in the AI Era
Traditional coding interviews are useless when AI writes the code. Here's a practical guide to evaluate what actually matters: code reading, critical…
Dec 16, 2025
The Real Reason Teams Break as AI Multiplies Leverage
It’s not a lack of talent that slows teams down, but invisible mismatches in effort norms, communication standards, and definitions of ownership.
Mar 2
Scoring Matrix For Mindset Assessment Interviews (part 2)
A simple, quantitive, yet, objective way to assess mindset interview.
Dec 1, 2025
“Fire and forget” makes more damage if you don’t do these 2 steps before
3 steps to achieve productive "fire and forget" management style with your team.
Nov 15, 2024
Mental Model To Evaluate Early-stage Startups
How to evaluate a startup before joining as an early employee
Aug 10, 2024
How to build a great product
Great article about how to break down the product.
Aug 26, 2017
Sanitizing any user input with OpenAI under $1
The objective of this task is to extract a person's name correctly as it appears on LinkedIn.
Nov 4, 2023
How to maximize your product wins
Throughout my professional career, I've built many products for different companies.
Oct 28, 2023
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