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Alies Lapatsin

Staff Engineer. Systems thinker. Code cleaner.

Latest 3 Posts

  1. Stop Wasting 89% of Your AI Agent's Tokens on CLI Noise
    Most CLI output is noise for LLMs. Flags, measurements, and patterns to cut 89% of wasted tokens. —
  2. First hour of a new Laravel project
    The packages, config tweaks, and safety rails I set up before writing the first line of business logic. —
  3. sscanf simplifies your regex
    A hidden PHP gem that replaces simple regex with readable, type-safe string parsing. —