Orchid Files
Every month I publish essays, and every day I publish notes. I write about what I learned from 10 years of working in startups.
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- 38 from 26 Nov 2025 to 4 Nov 2026
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2026 36
- You’ll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents
- Account bans on Reddit
- Questions file
- How to find readers for a new blog
- Programming is art
- Developers want to write code by hand
- Why do developers continue to write code by hand?
- Balance in life
- Vibecoders and vibehackers
- What does GitHub’s security team even do?
- Problems with hourly and project-based pay
- Gurus
- How old are you?
- I discovered a large-scale malware distribution campaign on GitHub
- More bad advice from AI
- Price of dreams
- Reason behind a startup’s success 5th
- Comparison with others 4th
- What city do you live in? 29th
- I manage teams without a single call 24th
- I’m tired of talking to AI 22nd
- Saved by chance 20th
- Multilingualism in startups 17th
- Typical AI conversation 15th
- Millionaire 14th
- Urgent advice from AI 12th
- Apostrophe and quotes 11th
- Startup success probability 8th
- Incommunicable experience 7th
- I haven’t finished a single project 100% 6th
- The best is yet to come 4th
- Doubts about what I’ve done 3rd
- The hidden costs of gambling and adult businesses 8th
- AI will build your roadmap in 10 seconds 10th
- I live without deadlines or schedules 29th
- Management style doesn’t predict survival 18th