alex lazar_
Stories and lessons from building software, working in startups, and following the work where it leads.
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The rise of software factories
This whole idea of software factories and how we will all be mostly automated away and our work devalued keeps making me think of the "master got me working" scene from South Park. I don't think that sort of world is where we're headed though.
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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.
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Let's wrap up 2025
A lot of things happened this year. I'll try to extract some lessons from it all here.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.