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A Curious Pattern in Pascal’s Triangle and Its Connection to Primes
A programmer’s exploration: rediscovering a classical result, validating it computationally, and seeking deeper insight from number theory.
Thinking out loud about software, AI & the craft of building.
I'm Almas — a senior software engineer who writes about AI, web development, and the decisions that shape great products. Welcome to my corner of the internet.
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You Build for People, Not Robots
An evening in Shymkent, an Americano, and some thoughts on Claude, vibe coders, and the one thing LLMs cannot copy — the connection between a product and the people who use it.
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Are We Trusting LLMs Too Much?
A developer's honest take on the LLM hype, blind faith in AI output, and what the next few years might actually look like.
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From Movie Finder to Social Connections?
Validating Lumicente, documenting the journey, and exploring whether shared movie taste could bring people together.
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Meet Lumicente — Identify Any Movie from a Short Clip
How a cozy weekend and some doomscrolling led me to build Lumicente — a tool that identifies movies from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube links.
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A little context
I've been building software for over ten years — mostly web, mostly products that real people touch every day. Currently working at SQUID App, focusing on AI-driven solutions.
My stack runs deep: React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS. I hold a Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from PFUR and a Master's in Applied Mathematics from MEPhI, both in Moscow. Now based in Kazakhstan, building things that matter.
I've also contributed to AI research at ISSAI, Nazarbayev University — co-authoring papers on Kazakh speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, COVID-19 modeling, and medical imaging published at EACL, INTERSPEECH, and IEEE.
When I'm not writing code or words, I'm exploring new AI tools, reading, or just thinking about what makes software feel right.
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