Daniil Marchenko 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@daniilmarchenko.com

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Therapist turned DevOps/Platform/Delivery engineer. Ukrainian American. Fourth generation bee keeper. 🐝

A frame of bees with an amber queen in the middle
Screenshot of my "the psychology of software teams" book order
claude output Me: Is there such a thing as AI-splaining (a la mansplaining)? 2:31 PM Yes, "AI-splaining" is definitely a thing people talk about! The term refers to a few related phenomena: AI explaining to the human who asked it something The most common usage: an AI giving a lengthy, condescending, or overly thorough explanation of something the person already clearly knows — like explaining basic concepts to an expert in their own field, or padding a simple answer with unnecessary background. AI confidently explaining things it's wrong about This is arguably the more consequential version — an AI "splaining" incorrect information with unwarranted authority, which can be more misleading than a human doing the same because the confident, neutral tone of AI text can feel more credible. The meta version: humans AI-splaining to each other When someone uses AI-generated text to explain something to another person, adding an artificial veneer of authority to what is essentially outsourced opinion. The analogy to mansplaining isn't perfect — mansplaining has a specific power-dynamic and demographic dimension that AI-splaining lacks — but the condescension + overconfidence + unnecessary elaboration part of the pattern maps pretty well. It's also worth noting the irony that I could be AI-splaining right now by giving you a thorough breakdown of a concept you may have already fully understood. The phenomenon is somewhat self-referential by nature.
Soviet Birth certificate with a hammer and sickle on it.
Honeycomb frame with bees and honey glimmering in the honeycomb cells.
Big, beehive with two deeps (20 frames) next to a little hive with 7 frames.
An open hive completely covered in bees
Sign on brick wall that says "kombucha on tap"
Orange cat curled up on a fuzzy orange blanket the same color as the cat
Orb weaver spider in the sun.
Goose chasing meme saying: Where are the missiles coming from? Where are the missiles coming from, Ivan?
An open hive with a lot of bees on it
Face of a granite cliff with fir trees on top.
Index cards in a wooden library catalog drawer.
A bottle of honey glistening in the sun
A capped frame with honey.
Caricature of Hitler as the groom and Stalin as the bride with an inscription of "Wonder how long the honeymoon will last?"
Victory arch from 1939 Brest-Litovsk parade with swastika and hammer and sickle.
Screenshot of Wikipedia article about a 2003 Border Agreement Between Russia and Ukraine showing map of Ukraine and its border with Russia and listing Vladimir Putin as one of the signatories.
Queen bee with a damaged wing
Honey comb with bee eggs in it.
Leo pointing meme
A bee robbing honey from a frame
Queen bee cell on a bee frame
Bird's eye view of destroyed high rise apartments buildings of Bakhmut.
The Wall Street Journal. The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World. New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago.
Twitter post that says "If Ukraine really did attack Twitter, I think the only logical thing is for Elon to sign a cease fire immediately, give them half of Twitter and make sure he says thank you."
1914 map of the Tacoma streetcar system which goes much further than the current system.
man in vyshyvanka
tweet by a white woman: friendly reminder that you don't get to celebrate lunar new year unless you're literally from a country that does or if you are invited by someone who is from a country that does. response by an Asian man: Friendly reminder that I hereby formally invite everyone to celebrate lunar new year.
Toyota land cruiser against a mountain backdrop.
Picture of a freeway in the mountains, with a dodge charger in the foreground and a foggy forest in the background.
Grassy field in the for grounds with sun rays on mount Si in the background.