InCodeToDeploybyOndřej Popelka·Jun 19The Part of Engineering AI Doesn’t SeeAn essay on judgment and taste, told through a gearbox and a garden tableA response icon9A response icon9
InGoPenAIbyOndřej Popelka·Jun 11AI Data Analysis: The Shortcut TrapA story about why you can’t evaluate a shortcut without already knowing the answer it’s shortcutting.
InGoPenAIbyOndřej Popelka·May 12Documenting architecture of a mid-size chaosWhat I learned building an AI skill to document 1.8M lines of code across 40 repositoriesA response icon3A response icon3
InDevmapbyOndřej Popelka·Apr 6Maintenance MismatchWhat happens when ‘we have no time for that’ becomes a $100K mistakeA response icon1A response icon1
InGoPenAIbyOndřej Popelka·Mar 11Fighting Vendor Lock-in with Local LLMsWhy I spent a day fighting vendor lock-in instead of writing one email (and what I learned about local LLMs)A response icon5A response icon5
InDevmapbyOndřej Popelka·Feb 23The LLM Replied. Now What?Practical lessons from what happens when you integrate LLMs into production systems and discover ‘it works’ isn’t enough.
Ondřej Popelka·Dec 8, 2025Too Old to Hackathon, Too young to die?What I learned returning to hackathons as the oldest person in the roomA response icon1A response icon1
Ondřej Popelka·Oct 19, 2025Generating user documentation from nothingAI vision and reasoning to transform screen recordings into structured user guidesA response icon6A response icon6
Ondřej Popelka·Sep 21, 2025Horror stories from Development — Part 666: DebuggingA tale of false leads, decoys, diversions and red herrings — all hidden behind a smokescreen of complexity.
Ondřej Popelka·Aug 27, 2025Critical Path Analysis in Jira for EveryoneProject Management for People Who Hate Project ManagementA response icon1A response icon1
