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May 11, 2025

Building true distributed systems with RoadRunner and Laravel

If you’re looking to build microservices in Laravel where components communicate using gRPC, implement durable workflows with Temporal…

Building true distributed systems with RoadRunner and Laravel

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Pavel Buchnev

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Mar 16, 2025

Context, Not Prompts [2.0]: The Evolution

Learn how to make AI coding tools work better with a simple command-line tool. This approach saves me hours — now I’m sharing it with you.

Context, Not Prompts [2.0]: The Evolution

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Mar 8, 2025

Context, not prompts. The missing piece in effective AI-assisted development

After using ChatGPT and Claude daily for the past year as part of my development workflow, I’ve learned one crucial lesson: context is…

Context, not prompts. The missing piece in effective AI-assisted development

Pavel Buchnev

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Oct 8

How to run a company of one

Organizing the work, delegating it and reviewing the results, with AI agents taking the roles.

How to run a company of one

Pavel Buchnev

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Sep 20

I added VR support to Counter-Strike 2

I added VR support to Counter-Strike 2 with Claude and Codex. A week later, I was watching matches from inside the map on my Meta Quest 3.

I added VR support to Counter-Strike 2

Pavel Buchnev

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Jan 27

Building self-evolving AI systems: exploring the architecture

Have you ever wanted to leave your AI coding assistant a list of tasks overnight — and wake up to finished pull requests?

Building self-evolving AI systems: exploring the architecture

Pavel Buchnev

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Nov 23, 2025

Context Engineering: From chaos to system in AI-assisted development

In this article, I share the systematic approach I developed after months of experimenting with AI coding assistants.

Context Engineering: From chaos to system in AI-assisted development

Pavel Buchnev

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Nov 19, 2025

The memory pattern every PHP developer should know about long-running processes

Why PHP memory only goes up in long-running processes and never comes back down. Understand the pattern, recognize the triggers, and …

The memory pattern every PHP developer should know about long-running processes

Pavel Buchnev

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Nov 13, 2025

How we stopped blocking PHP workers: A RoadRunner plugin story

The problem that almost killed our site

Pavel Buchnev

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Sep 21, 2025

A step-by-step guide to vibe-code new features with AI (include prompt examples)

A practical framework using CTX and AI to contribute professionally

A step-by-step guide to vibe-code new features with AI (include prompt examples)

Pavel Buchnev

Pavel Buchnev

CTO | VibeCoding Evangelist | 15+ Years in Open Source. Passionate about developer experience https://github.com/butschster

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