# Adilet Gaparov — Writing

> 15 blog posts and 10 newsletter issues.

## blog

Learning, building in public, career, and things I am figuring out.
15 posts  ·  published here  ·  when inspiration strikes

## newsletter

[The Working Prototype](https://theworkingprototype.substack.com/)
AI reliability, alignment and safety for people building agents — no PhD required.
10 issues  ·  on substack, by email  ·  archived here to read

## blog posts

- `2026-07-16` [how and why i built a home ai assistant](/md/blog/teya-intro)
- `2026-06-26` [riding the wave](/md/blog/riding-the-wave)
- `2026-03-15` [sorry for writing so late](/md/blog/sorry-for-writing-so-late)
- `2025-11-15` [the economy of blame](/md/blog/economy-of-blame)
- `2025-11-03` [prince of constraints](/md/blog/prince-of-constraints)
- `2025-10-27` [local maxima](/md/blog/local-maxima)
- `2025-09-20` [polyworking: why one job isn't enough anymore](/md/blog/polyworking)
- `2025-06-29` [a loop is all you need: building conversational ai agents](/md/blog/loop-is-all-you-need)
- `2025-06-10` [debugging my twenties: that summer in france](/md/blog/debugging-my-twenties)
- `2025-06-08` [writing in public: what i discovered during my 8-month writing break](/md/blog/writing-in-public)
- `2024-09-29` [my take on education and learning](/md/blog/is-education-broken)
- `2024-04-22` [learn to sell: b2b sales lessons from microsoft](/md/blog/sales-lessons)
- `2024-02-15` [why i started my tech career as a sales engineer @ microsoft](/md/blog/why-sales-engineer)
- `2024-01-12` [everyone should have a personal website](/md/blog/personal-website)
- `2023-12-12` [how i got the data science interview with a cool scale-up without cv](/md/blog/blog-better-than-cv)

## newsletter issues

- `2026-07-13` [what kind of poker player is an ai?](/md/newsletter/what-kind-of-poker-player-is-an-ai)
- `2026-06-28` [context solves alignment?](/md/newsletter/context-solves-alignment)
- `2026-05-18` [judgement at scale](/md/newsletter/judgement-at-scale)
- `2026-04-09` [how to do agentic evals](/md/newsletter/how-to-do-agentic-evals)
- `2026-04-03` [build for reliability](/md/newsletter/build-for-reliability)
- `2026-03-22` [the legible agent](/md/newsletter/the-legible-agent)
- `2026-03-15` [in character](/md/newsletter/in-character)
- `2026-01-31` [from finding bias to fixing it](/md/newsletter/fixing-bias)
- `2025-11-16` [the vulnerable world hypothesis](/md/newsletter/vulnerable-world-hypothesis)
- `2025-11-15` [why this newsletter exists](/md/newsletter/why-this-newsletter)