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Anton Kulikalov

Software Engineer

San Francisco

anton.kulikalov@gmail.com

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kulikalov··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Md and plotly is all you need. The only thing that is truly missing is some sort of Markdown-based forms
kulikalov··on Appearing productive in the workplace
I think this is exciting. The market will do its job and crush the inefficient companies where management is unable to recognize the slop. People who produce value will produce more of it with AI, people who wasted resources will waste more of it with AI.
kulikalov··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
Slop architecture leads to compounding problems that people try to solve with more slop. If one wants to control the quality of the code then the throughput and multithreading is bottlenecked by how much code one can comprehend in a given period of time.
kulikalov··on Claude Opus 4.7
Or it could be a selection bias. The ground truth is not what HN herd mentality complains about, but the usage stats.
kulikalov··on Where did my taxes go?
I love how easy this kind of mini data visualization projects have become
kulikalov··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
“Social trust in autocracies”
kulikalov··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
I came to the exact same pattern, with one extra heuristic at the end: spin up a new claude instance after the implementation is complete and ask it to find discrepancies between the plan and the implementation.
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
Loved it too! Try echopraxia next.
kulikalov··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
The right way to shape mass preferences is to collectively decide what's right and then force everyone to follow the majority decision under the muzzle of a gun. <sarcasm off>

Did I capture the sentiment of the hacker new crowd fully or did I miss anything?

kulikalov··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
AI Copilot for brick-and-mortar retailers (https://fastquery.ai)

Perfect usage metrics. Store staff spends 35hr per week using my software in a ~7 employee per shift setting. No churn.

Bootstrapped past $100k ARR on my own, just onboarded a co-founder.

kulikalov··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
russia hasn't been cutoff economically still. 3 years and the economy is going down but not as fast as it should have. The leaders of the west think they are playing a game here with pros and cons. There are no pros and a huge con with number 3 on it. How the fuck can anyone still trade with russia.

This should have been retaliation of the western world years ago.

kulikalov··on A multimodal dataset with one trillion tokens
Sounds inefficient. It’s like predicting the boiling point of a kettle by measuring the speed of individual molecules of water.
kulikalov··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
the question is - why lifts require windows?
kulikalov··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
Looks great! I'd love to get a notification once you add remote servers support. What channel should I use? Besides discord.
kulikalov··on In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
I like the article and am a big proponent of simple architectures.

But.

The described use cases have homogenous workloads. Hence simple architecture. Extrapolate the rest.

And of course there are for sure cases of people increasing complexity for the sake of being needed. That's a topic for sociologists/psychologists to reason about, not for engineers.

kulikalov··on Alexei Navalny has died
It happened 15 years ago. Half of the town knew that, all the police knew that. In fact the police tortures people themselves, it's not news for them.

This thread is in the midst of discussion of a public person tortured for 3 years and murdered and the whole country knows that.

What authorities are you talking about? It's criminals upon criminals.

kulikalov··on Alexei Navalny has died
There's no cutoff. Only some inconveniences for population maybe.
kulikalov··on Alexei Navalny has died
Parts of population always did and always will be falling behind other parts.

Humanity must ensure that an individual has the way to realize their potential. Freedom to raise and freedom to fall.

The internet changed everything. The information flowing freely and allowing critical thinkers to get out of a swamp they found themselves in. At least this gives everyone a chance to see.

The other thing is immigration. Your case about the US is thankfully different because one can get on a car and leave to another state or urban area. It's not as easy to get out of russia. Get a visa first. Maybe. If you have education and fit into a category. Do not fit? Too bad, there are great places like Kazakhstan that are available though.

kulikalov··on Alexei Navalny has died
There are smart people who work for Russia, or worse - for russian gov. Without them it would not be possible.

How can an individual have both the critical thinking and still have the gut to contribute to this?

I grew up in rural russia. It's much much worse than what you see on the facade. My neighbour was a police man. His 15 years boy raped a kid from local orphanage and captured it on a video. No justice followed, because his dad is a policeman. No one spoke up. Everyone just accepted it, as they always do. When he grew up he became a policeman. It's not even the most screwed up story that I witnessed. This is beyond fucked up.

It's a case of mass inheritable PTSD. All males I knew in my family tree were violent drunks, all females were bitten up housewives. This place is surreal and should not exist. And my family was somewhat functional compared to some neighbours.

I abandoned everything there and got out as soon as I could make any money. I wish every person capable of critical thinking just leave this dreadful place and let it descend to the middle ages.

kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
Why? Because there's no word for "insurance of AI advise accuracy"? The whole point of progress is that we create something that is not a thing at the moment.
kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
Well, I guess since it's not "practice" we gonna call it "mal-inference insurance".
kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
ChatGPT enterprise? Or over API. They state that those offerings data is not used for training. I'm not a lawyer but afaik illegally retrieved evidence cannot be used - "exclusionary rule".
kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
It's funny how any conversation ends with this question unanswered.
kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
Given orders of magnitude better cost efficiency, they will have plenty of funds to lure in any insurance firm in existence. And then replace insurance firms too.
kulikalov··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
Can't a tech firm running a "legal gpt" have an insurance?
kulikalov··on Ask HN: What materials to consume to gain knowledge about cutting edge ML?
Andrej Karpathy videos on YouTube and Stanford NLP book.
kulikalov··on Digital Immortality
I'm not aware of any technology that is capable of doing anything close to "uploading". Or any technology that is on the way there.

If we consider our consciousness to be a narrative that is based on our life experiences, then a more realistic method would be to voice-record your unfiltered emotional sincere thoughts for 30 minutes a day for a 1-5 years.

That should be enough to simulate your consciousness: - it contains the signal of what bothers you - it contains the signal of what psychological problems you have - it contains the signal of your emotional state whether it's caused by hormones or objective events - it contains the signal of what you know about the world

kulikalov··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
You are describing use case for a vector database
kulikalov··on Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database
What technical benefits?
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