Cross-Platform Desktop App Development: You're Arguing About the Wrong Number
The Electron-vs-Tauri benchmark war misses the metric that actually sinks desktop projects: who maintains the app in year three.
Kseniia Cherepakhina 6 min read Blog · 11 posts
Tactical Engineering
Kseniia Cherepakhina 6 min read RAG Isn't AI Magic. It's a Search Engine Wearing a Costume.
RAG, told straight: an information-retrieval pipeline with a language model bolted to the end. The retrieval half is where quality is won or lost.
Kseniia Cherepakhina 7 min read Search now ships apps. Most of them will break.
Google announced at I/O 2026 that Search generates custom dashboards and mini-apps on the fly via Antigravity.
Illia Hrybovskyi 5 min read You Don't Need a Custom LLM. You Need a Custom System Around a Borrowed One.
Most companies asking for a custom LLM don't need to train a model. They need retrieval, evals, and tooling around a frontier one. Here's the honest split.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read 84% of Developers Use AI Tools. Only 29% Trust the Output.
84% of developers use AI tools. Only 29% trust them. METR's study: AI made experienced developers 19% slower. The productivity paradox.
Dennis Vorobyov 7 min read Supply-Chain Breaches Cost $4.91M and Take 267 Days to Contain
IBM 2025: supply-chain breaches cost $4.91M and take 267 days to contain. Only 24% of teams trust their dependencies.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read AI Makes Your Team Faster. It Also Makes Failures Worse.
DORA 2025: AI makes teams faster and less stable simultaneously. More throughput, more failures, longer recovery. Fix the platform first.
Dennis Vorobyov 7 min read Premature Microservices Are the New Technical Debt
InfoQ 2025: premature microservices are now a top scaling bottleneck. Common failure at ~1,000 concurrent users. The architecture trap.
Dennis Vorobyov 7 min read You Can't Measure Developer Productivity with a Single Number
73% of CTOs report decision anxiety around developer productivity metrics. Why single-metric optimization breaks engineering teams.
Dennis Vorobyov 7 min read 35% of Developers Use 6-10 Tools Daily. The Debugging Tax Is Real.
35% of developers use 6-10 tools daily. 45% say debugging AI code takes longer than writing it themselves. The hidden debugging tax.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read 62% of Security Teams Say 25%+ of Alerts Are False Positives
Snyk: 62% of teams say 25%+ of vulnerability alerts are false positives. 60% say automation made it worse. The alert fatigue problem.
Dennis Vorobyov 6 min read