Essays and notes on software engineering.https://andrewvpopov.com/en-ushttps://andrewvpopov.com/blog/vibes-gettin-worse/https://andrewvpopov.com/blog/vibes-gettin-worse/Fourteen months of commits on one side project, read as a record of how building with AI agents actually changed. Meltdown, discipline, and a slow escalation in what the tools could carry.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewvpopov.com/blog/cards-first/https://andrewvpopov.com/blog/cards-first/How I balanced Blood Rogue with a unit of value and ten thousand simulated fights, and why 'measure it' is the easy half of the lesson.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewvpopov.com/blog/cheaper-to-build-than-to-buy/https://andrewvpopov.com/blog/cheaper-to-build-than-to-buy/The build-versus-buy line moved, and narrow internal tools are now often on the build side of it.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewvpopov.com/blog/what-a-boss-is-for/https://andrewvpopov.com/blog/what-a-boss-is-for/The design rubric behind Blood Rogue's bosses: why every act boss counters a way of playing instead of just having more hit points.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://andrewvpopov.com/blog/building-bewks/https://andrewvpopov.com/blog/building-bewks/Why I spent a year of evenings building a self-hosted library, and what the architecture looks like underneath.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT