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Adlet Balzhanov
Personal blog · thetrueengineer.comcareerprogrammingsystems
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.
5-minute essays read by engineers at Big Tech, quant shops and frontier AI labs. Worth every minute, imho.
Most-linked posts?
- If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-08-16
- System design rules I always come back to2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-24
- SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 20262 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Submitted If a startup worth your career as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted System design rules I always come back to as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted If a startup worth your career as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons I learned as a software engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Handle a Difficult Colleague as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Event-Driven Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Success = (number of attempts) × (probability of success each time) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted System design rules I always come back to as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Takeaways from "On Writing Well" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons I learned as a software engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I tested every Al model the same way. Only one task got better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Handle a Difficult Colleague as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Wasted My First Two Years in Tech on the Wrong Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Worth your time – July '26 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've been living inside DynamoDB for a while as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DynamoDB Deep Dive as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Success = (number of attempts) × (probability of success each time) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL vs. NoSQL: How to Answer This Interview Question in 2026 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confidence in Tech > Talent in Tech as a story · 1 points
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