Nodir Nazarov

“I think the next 10 years will be a cyber resiliency marathon for all of us. I’m not talking just about cybersecurity. Cyber resiliency is much more than that.”

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🚀 Excited to announce the launch of Shamsi Calendar API! 🎉 After weeks of development, I'm proud to release a comprehensive RESTful API for the Afghan Shamsi (Solar Hijri) calendar - now live at https://lnkd.in/g7TNWXys Why I built this: As Afghan developers, we've long struggled with the lack of reliable tools for our calendar system. This API changes that. 🌟 Key Features: ✅ Accurate Shamsi ↔ Gregorian date conversion ✅ Full calendar views (day, week, month, year) ✅ Complete holiday management system ✅ Trilingual support: Dari, Pashto & English ✅ Interactive Swagger documentation ✅ 151 tests with 85.6% code coverage ✅ Free and open-source 🛠️ Built with: TypeScript, Express.js, tested with Jest, and deployed with enterprise-grade security (rate limiting, CORS, Helmet) 📊 What you can do: Build Afghan calendar apps without reinventing the wheel Integrate Shamsi dates into your existing applications Access accurate holiday information Use it in any language: TypeScript, Python, Java, etc. 🎯 Perfect for: Afghan tech startups, government systems, educational platforms, mobile apps, and anyone serving the Afghan community worldwide. Try it out at the interactive documentation and let me know what you think! Contributions and feedback are welcome. #OpenSource #API #AfghanTech #ShamsiCalendar #WebDevelopment #TypeScript #SoftwareEngineering #Afghanistan

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Tahmeed Uzair Rahim Marcus Day In the age of AI, technical interviews have become trivial with tools like Cluely. That's why we built PromTest - an AI first coding assessment platform. Stop fighting AI to find the best engineers and start leveraging it. https://www.promptest.org/

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A new study from Carnegie Mellon, “Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor’s Impact on Software Projects” that looks at a more recent period, tracking code quality in projects using GenAI tools up to mid-2025, finds that AI briefly accelerates code generation, but the underlying code quality trends continue to move in the wrong direction. https://lnkd.in/gm6dxb8W

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Microsoft is investing ~$15B into Anthropic, the company behind Claude, and teaming up with Nvidia to power the next generation of AI. What this means in simple words: • Anthropic will run on Microsoft Azure and buy massive computing power. • Claude will be the only major AI model available on all big clouds: Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. • Microsoft already added Claude into Excel and Copilot. Why it matters: • Anthropic’s value jumped to $350B, which makes it one of the most valuable AI companies today. • Microsoft now has more AI options and is less dependent on OpenAI. #AI #Microsoft #Anthropic #Nvidia #CloudComputing #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews

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Really nice Stanford lesson about foundational AI topics A few tips I really liked there: (1) Few-Shot Prompting: Instead of asking zero-shot (no examples), provide positive and negative examples in the prompt to align the model's output (e.g., for tone classification) [00:28:46]. (2) Chain of Thought: Instruct the model to "think step-by-step" and not skip steps. This significantly improves reasoning capabilities [00:24:14]. (3) Chaining Prompts: Break a complex task into multiple separate prompts (e.g., Prompt 1: Extract issues; Prompt 2: Draft outline; Prompt 3: Write email). This allows you to debug and optimize each step individually [00:33:32]. https://lnkd.in/dfEaH8eF

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Had the pleasure of attending Code.Digest at Microsoft Canada today, organized by Alex Pshul . 👏 The event was packed with great talks, but the panel discussion with April Gittens ,Alfredo Deza , and Anthony Bartolo really stood out. They touched on some key aspects of building AI systems: - April’s perspective on bias in AI systems and the ethical considerations when building and consuming AI was thought-provoking. - Alfredo emphasized the importance of bringing your own story to the table, having expertise in different domainswhile building can give you and edge and his enthusiasm for building things was palpable. - Anthony wrapped it up perfectly with a reminder about hustling and always learning, a message especially powerful for new grads starting their journey. All in all, a day full of insights, discussions, and inspiration. Excited to keep learning and applying these perspectives in my own work! 🚀

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The Kill Switch: AI Pioneer Mustafa Suleyman on the Four Capabilities We Must Regulate Now Is AI the most powerful general-purpose technology we've ever invented, or is it creating an unprecedented containment challenge? Suleyman notes that even industry OGs were shocked by the recent exponential speed of AI development. The power comes from AI’s ability to learn the structure of information (relationships between words, pixels, code) when fed massive data and compute. Here are the critical takeaways on the risks and potential: 1. The Containment Challenge The single greatest risk is the decentralization and proliferation of power. AI miniaturizes power, giving individuals "nation state like powers" because the marginal cost of execution approaches zero. This friction reduction fundamentally risks peace and stability. 2. The Four Capabilities that Require Regulation Suleyman argues that governments and developers must focus on auditing and regulating the most sensitive capabilities. A system that combines the following four factors would be so powerful it would require "military-grade intervention to be able to stop": 1. Recursive self-improvement: The ability to modify its own code. 2. Setting its own goals. 3. Acting autonomously. 4. Accruing its own resources Suleyman stresses that regulation is necessary and good; we must invest in the state’s capacity to audit these. 3. The Vision of Abundance Despite the risks, the potential for utopia remains strong. Suleyman predicts AI will help reduce the cost of energy by 100x over the next 20 years. This breakthrough could enable widespread water desalination, mitigate climate migration, and reduce the price of most things. If managed correctly, by 2045, society could disconnect value from jobs, shifting focus to creating environments where people can find their true passions and freedom. Suleyman notes that 42% of CEOs fear AI could destroy humanity. Given these massive benefits and the severe risks, where should our primary focus be today: maximizing abundance, or limiting the proliferation of these sensitive capabilities? https://lnkd.in/gt4RAYn7 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MustafaSuleyman #DeepMind #Regulation #TechEthics #TheComingWave

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On September 9th, 1947, a real 🦋 moth found its way into the Harvard Mark II computer 💻, becoming the very first documented computer bug. It was discovered and carefully logged by Grace Hopper and her team, giving birth to the now-famous term “debugging.” 🪲✨ Fast-forward to today, and we honor that milestone by celebrating International Software Testers’ Day 🎉 — a day dedicated to the passion, precision, and persistence of testers everywhere who keep the digital world running seamlessly. 🚀🔍💡 #SoftwareTesting #SoftwareQA #AutomationTesting #AIPoweredTesting

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𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗨𝗽 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 As Principal Engineers at #Amazon , one of our core responsibilities is to ensure we're building the right thing, not just building things right. That's why, when reviewing system design documents, I zero in on the problem statement and expected outcomes. Is the problem truly worth solving? Are the goals clearly articulated and measurable? Once those fundamentals are solid, I have immense faith in our engineers to architect and implement elegant solutions. Identifying the core problem accurately unlocks innovation. Let's focus on defining the "𝘄𝗵𝘆" 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 diving into the "𝗵𝗼𝘄." #PrincipalEngineer #SystemDesignReview #ImpactfulEngineering

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In this new Engineering Blog, MongoDB Staff Research Engineer Will Schultz and Principal Research Scientist Murat Demirbas dig into MongoDB's support for distributed, multi-document transactions. They also discuss recent work on formal modeling and verification to examine transactions protocol in more depth. MongoDB employs TLA+ specifications to verify its distributed transaction protocol, prioritizing both correctness and permissiveness. By mathematically modeling system interactions, engineers ensured strict snapshot isolation while minimizing unnecessary transaction aborts. This approach ensures that the database maintains rigorous data integrity without sacrificing high-throughput performance. The key takeaway for developers: assuredness. https://lnkd.in/deXrRD2S

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