Andrei's Blog

The Making of bot-drei 😎

Fine-tuning an LLM and building a custom RAG pipeline

Oct 21 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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Do people like slop?

If so, why?

Aug 2 • 

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July 2025

Halfway through

Reflections after Week 6 of Fractal Tech's Bootcamp

Jul 24 • 

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June 2025

3 weeks in

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

Jun 21 • 

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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 • 

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January 2025

Barbells Everywhere

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

Jan 21 • 

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December 2024

Internet Filtering Tools

How I organize the internet for myself

Dec 25, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Small Town America & 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'

Fall 2024

Nov 19, 2024 • 

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September 2024

My Substack Summer

What I read in Summer 2024

Sep 19, 2024 • 

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