Denislav Gavrilov | Substack

Hey, dentist! You are a software lead now.

A company sends a cold email to my girlfriend's sister. They ask for $400 to create a landing page for her new dental studio. I told her to drop the…

Jan 26 • Denislav Gavrilov

Experiments & Joyful Plays

Clopus-Watcher: An autonomous monitoring agent

I put Claude Code in a cronjob in a k8s namespace. It is tasked to monitor an application and in the unfortunate case of application error (degraded…

Dec 27, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Clopus-02: A 24-hour Claude Code run

A Claude Code instance runs without any human action for 24-hours. I gave it short-term (sqlite3) & long-term (qdrant) memory, as well as access to a…

Dec 23, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Clopus-01: A semi-autonomous Claude Code

I attempted to create a fully-autonomous Claude Code. While I did not reach full autonomy, I got pretty close. In this piece I share the stats, how it…

Dec 19, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Authentic Thoughts & Assumptions

Hey, dentist! You are a software lead now.

A company sends a cold email to my girlfriend's sister. They ask for $400 to create a landing page for her new dental studio. I told her to drop the…

Jan 26 • Denislav Gavrilov

The concept of a Character

Notes on building a self: Purpose through escapism.

Dec 14, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Perfection, Authenticity & Intuition

In the age of AI, those creating patterns will be rewarded with high amounts of satisfaction, while those with no soul to sign their work with, will be…

Dec 7, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Tartare: Accessibility, Perception, and Internet Discourse

I ordered tartare, then I put it in a pan and posted photos of it on social media. Then ~5 million people hated me for it. Here's a story about food…

Dec 7, 2025 • Denislav Gavrilov

Technical Content

Clopus-agent: Claude Code in a CI

Complete self-hosted natural language programming (""vibe coding"") platform with Github, ArgoCD, and Claude Code. Essentially, a far better and…

Jan 7 • Denislav Gavrilov

Preview Environments

A practical introduction to GitOps & the power of preview environments: a fully functional isolated environment, spawned automatically on every pull…

Jan 6 • Denislav Gavrilov

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