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Adlet Balzhanov

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Adlet Balzhanov writes The True Engineer, a personal blog at thetrueengineer.com about career, programming and systems. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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5-minute essays read by engineers at Big Tech, quant shops and frontier AI labs. Worth every minute, imho.

Most-linked posts?

  1. If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI
    2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-08-16
  2. System design rules I always come back to
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-24
  3. SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted If a startup worth your career as a story · 15 points

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  2. Submitted System design rules I always come back to as a story · 5 points

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  3. Submitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted If a startup worth your career as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted Lessons I learned as a software engineer as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026 as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted How to Handle a Difficult Colleague as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Understanding Event-Driven Systems as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Success = (number of attempts) × (probability of success each time) as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted System design rules I always come back to as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Takeaways from "On Writing Well" as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Lessons I learned as a software engineer as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted I tested every Al model the same way. Only one task got better as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted How to Handle a Difficult Colleague as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted I Wasted My First Two Years in Tech on the Wrong Things as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Worth your time – July '26 as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted I've been living inside DynamoDB for a while as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted DynamoDB Deep Dive as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Success = (number of attempts) × (probability of success each time) as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026 as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Confidence in Tech > Talent in Tech as a story · 1 points

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