alex lazar_

Product-focused engineer — 7 years building for early-stage startups, lately all-in on AI/LLM work. More about me →

  • May 29, 2026

    The grass is greener in AI right now

    It's been a while since I last wrote for this thing, and last time I promised you more Solana articles. Sadly, I won't deliver this time around either. Instead I'll tell you some stories.

  • Dec 31, 2025

    Let's wrap up 2025

    A lot of things happened this year. I'll try to extract some lessons from it all here.

  • Oct 19, 2025

    External calls are dangerous

    This is an attempt at outlining an exhaustive list of external call footguns in Solana programs with some Solidity counterparts for people that come from that world.

  • Sep 15, 2025

    The hardest part about auditing is...

    After almost 3 years of coquetting with the idea of auditing, I finally did my first audit. Found 1H and 1M too. What stopped me for so long?

  • Aug 10, 2025

    It's been a month...

    It's been a little over a month since I last gave you an update and I'm back. Let's talk events in my life, my newfound love for Rust, why prediction markets are actually not a great business and why EV doesn't tell the whole story.

  • Jul 8, 2025

    Building something I own

    The motivation behind this newsletter, what it is going to be about, a short about me and various updates from the past ~6 months of my life.

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