Andrei's Blog

2025 Project Highlights

My favorite programming personal projects in review

Jan 28 • Andrei

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December 2025

Netflix, WBD, and Attention

What text and audio tell us about video's future

Dec 30, 2025 • Andrei

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2025 Favorites

Books, YouTube, restaurants, and more!

Dec 21, 2025 • Andrei

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October 2025

The Making of bot-drei 😎

Fine-tuning an LLM and building a custom RAG pipeline

Oct 21, 2025 • Andrei

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September 2025

Dyson is a Successful Engineer's Company

How James Dyson turned his engineering mindset into a successful 21st century corporation.

Sep 11, 2025 • Andrei

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August 2025

Collaborating with LLMs instead of delegating

Explaining how I made Refract, my end-of-Fractal Tech demo

Aug 30, 2025 • Andrei

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GPT-5 is pretty good, actually

Why I think GPT-5 is a move in the right direction, and fun links :)

Aug 11, 2025 • Andrei

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Do people like slop?

If so, why?

Aug 2, 2025 • Andrei

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July 2025

Halfway through

Reflections after Week 6 of Fractal Tech's Bootcamp

Jul 24, 2025 • Andrei

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June 2025

3 weeks in

Reflecting after my first three weeks in Fractal Tech's Bootcamp

Jun 21, 2025 • Andrei

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May 2025

Why I'm Quitting My Job

And regaining some agency over how I spend my time, and what I'm working towards.

May 10, 2025 • Andrei

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January 2025

Barbells Everywhere

And an aside on Romania's current cultural and political crisis

Jan 21, 2025 • Andrei

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