I'm a product-focused engineer with 7 years of experience building web-based products for early-stage startups.https://alexlazar.dev/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/the-rise-of-software-factories/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:27:08 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/the-grass-is-greener-in-ai-right-now/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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.Fri, 29 May 2026 21:47:18 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/let-s-wrap-up-2025/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/let-s-wrap-up-2025/A lot of things happened this year. I'll try to extract some lessons from it all here.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:52:09 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/external-calls-are-dangerous/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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.Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:57:37 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/the-hardest-part-about-auditing-is/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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?Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:52:20 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/it-s-been-a-month/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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.Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:07:00 GMThttps://alexlazar.dev/blog/building-something-i-own/https://alexlazar.dev/blog/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.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:19:00 GMT