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@orchidfiles.com
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Developer, team lead, and founder. 10 years in startups. 10 hours of daily work. Blog: orchidfiles.com

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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 11/09/2026
DevTo has no moderation or invitations. You can sign up and start publishing articles right away. Guess how many AI-generated articles there are?
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 07/09/2026
Number 2 on Hacker News. Every time, I’m just as happy about it as the first time.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 06/09/2026
Some programmers enjoy the process of writing code. And they don‘t want to hand that process over to AI agents. For them, programming is art. I wrote an article about it. orchidfiles.com/programming-...
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Programming is art
When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people wh...
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 04/09/2026
The article was poorly received by the audience. It received only negative comments across all platforms. Everyone was convinced that all code should be written by hand, every single line of code.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 03/09/2026
I wrote a new article in an effort to answer the question of why some people continue to write code by hand instead of delegating the task to AI agents. orchidfiles.com/why-write-co...
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Why do developers continue to write code by hand?
Imagine you need to write a long piece of text that requires you to think things through, gather information, and analyze it. Then you have to write the text itself, proofread it, correct any errors, ...
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 01/09/2026
The hardest thing is to achieve a balanced life. One where you have family, friends, work, hobbies, beer on the weekends, and trips abroad.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 29/08/2026
1. An inexperienced vibecoder might create an app where all user passwords are stored in plain text. 2. An inexperienced user might use the same password across all services and not use two-factor authentication.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 27/07/2026
Right now, there are thousands of repositories on GitHub distributing malware. Any of you can find these repositories, and you don’t need any special knowledge to do so. All you have to do is use the standard search function on the GitHub website. orchidfiles.com/github-secur...
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 27/06/2026
I follow a crypto blogger, but I see that almost all of his posts are about how successful he is. He flies business class, buys his wife gifts, and dines at expensive restaurants. But if I wanted to look at your photos, I’d follow you on Instagram, wouldn’t I?
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 25/06/2026
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 18/06/2026
Number one on HN. Second time in the last 30 days.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 18/06/2026
Number 3 on Hacker News. A new historic moment.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 18/06/2026
I discovered a large-scale malware distribution campaign on GitHub. orchidfiles.com/github-repos...
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How I found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. ...
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 17/06/2026
I ask the AI to move a file, but it starts creating a new copy of it in a different folder and then deletes the existing file. It could have just used the command to move the file.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 11/06/2026
#ai
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 08/06/2026
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More bad advice from AI
If you ask AI whether you should post the full text of an article on platforms like Medium or Reddit, it will almost always say you should post a preview of 1-2 paragraphs, a hook, and include a link ...
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 06/06/2026
Price of dreams
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 05/06/2026
Reason behind a startup's success
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 04/06/2026
Why is there a belief that we should stop comparing ourselves to others? If I compare myself to who I was yesterday, rather than to others, how will I know which rung of the social ladder I’m on? Or do I not need to know my place in society?
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 29/05/2026
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 22/05/2026
I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 20/05/2026
If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve had that moment when you almost lost everything, but somehow didn’t. You could have lost your life, but an incredible confluence of circumstances saved you. You accidentally deleted your customer database, but a backup you’d only just set up saved your business.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 17/05/2026
When launching a startup, don’t make it multilingual until you have stable revenue and a team to support it. You can’t know whether the startup will become profitable, so early on, your time is better spent finding PMF and acquiring users.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 14/05/2026
You start out wanting to become a millionaire. Then you become one and realize you’re just one of a million people just like you. You’re not special, you’re no better than anyone else, you’re not even one in a thousand. You’re one in a million.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 12/05/2026
I once asked Composer 2 to add support for a third-party API in the code. I was so lazy that I just dropped the token into the chat and gave it the task. It replied in bold “This is urgent. You sent the token in the chat. Revoke it right now”.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 11/05/2026
American style uses double typographic quotes “ ”, British style uses single typographic quotes ‘ ’, and technical documentation uses straight quotes " ". In American style, punctuation goes inside the quotation marks; in British style, placement follows meaning.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 08/05/2026
Statistics say that 90% of startups shut down in the first few years. But this only applies to venture-backed startups. Startups with other kinds of funding may have a 50% chance of success, and your own odds may be even higher.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 07/05/2026
You can read all you want about psychedelic states, panic attacks, or being drunk. But no description can convey what they actually feel like. Only by experiencing something like that yourself do you realize how big the gap is between merely knowing about it and actually feeling it.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 06/05/2026
Right now I have over 10K tasks written down across all my projects. If I completed one task every day, it would take me 30 years to complete all of them. But when I do a task, I get new ideas and write down a few more new tasks. My task list will never end.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 05/05/2026
The most profitable project of my life hasn’t been built yet. My most viral post hasn’t been written yet. I haven’t met the most wonderful person yet. I haven’t come up with my strongest idea yet.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 05/05/2026
I have doubts not only while making a decision, but also after I’ve made it. I publish a post, and the next day I already want to change the wording. I come up with a cool name for a product, register the domain, and claim the social media handles, but a week later I no longer like the name.
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Orchid @orchidfiles.com · 28/04/2026
Ungate — use your Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions in Cursor instead of paying for API tokens. Update: - Added GPT-5.5 and Opus-4.7 support - Support for xhigh reasoning tier - Fixed GPT model downgrades in OpenAI normalizer - Resolved duplicate model mapping conflicts github.com/orchidfiles/ungate
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GitHub - orchidfiles/ungate: Use your Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions in Cursor instead of paying for API tokens.
Use your Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions in Cursor instead of paying for API tokens. - orchidfiles/ungate
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HackerNoon @hackernoon.com · 15/04/2026
Learn how to use your Claude subscription in Cursor with a proxy, OAuth login, and a Cloudflare tunnel instead of paying API token fees. #cursor
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Use Claude in Cursor Without Paying API Token Fees
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