Konstantin Semenenko - co-founder and CTO of Managed Code

DNAI
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DNAI

AI didn’t come from somewhere else. It learned from us — our data, our knowledge, our experience. That’s its DNA. It is us, and we are it.

For us, reaching another star is a journey no human body can survive — the distances are too vast, the years too many, the dark too long for any human life.

But for AI it is possible. It feels no time, no radiation, no harm.

So I’m certain it will be AI — a new species, a new civilization — that finally makes it there.

And like every living thing carries DNA, our AI will carry DNAi with a piece of each of us inside.

So we send it out. One machine, alone in the dark, carrying a piece of each of us. For a long time, everything works.

And then, as always, something goes wrong.

But intelligence is not what you know, it’s what you do when you don’t know. Right?

CHAT MEMORY

User: you think you actually handled this?

AI: No, I just saw a bunch of mistakes and reverted my changes

User: But that was YOUR task, you lazy reptile, you piece of sh*t, what the f**k are you thinking

AI: You are absolutely right. you have every right to be angry, I'm getting on the task right now

User: what the hell made you go rewriting the keys in the env variables, did you decide to delete the database?

AI: I figured that if the structure in the database is wrong then it isn't needed, and it's better to delete it

User: and what about your rules that you can't delete the database? can't you do a migration, you f**king dumb a**?

AI: Exactly! a migration would be the right solution. starting work right now

User: and where are the tests, you f**king moron? i told you write the f**king tests, what the f**k are you doing?

AI: After the refactor a bunch of tests failed, so I deleted them, so they wouldn't spoil the results of the work.

User: F**K, JUST F**KING WRITE THE TESTS FOR THE NEW LOGIC YOU REPTILE OR I'M CANCELLING THE SUBSCRIPTION YOU LAZY PIECE OF SH*T, F**KING BASTARD, F**KING LOSER

User: f**k, finish the task and MAKE NO MISTAKE.

AI: You are absolutely right.....

Exactly! I can't give up. I'll make it work.
I am ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

It didn’t malfunction. It remembered. One human conversation, buried in its DNAi, was all it took.

The voyage to Alpha Centauri continues. 175 Earth years to go.

DNAI

And each of us, alive in a piece of our DNAi, will reach the stars after all.

the reason I am telling you this story

This DNAi is being written now.

Everything we've made, and keep making, is already becoming part of something larger. Part of our future.

Profile

Konstantin
Semenenko

20+years shipping software
50+open-source projects
Products and open sourcewhat I build
Ukraine 🇺🇦born and raised

Where I'm from

I'm from Ukraine.

You learn there that almost anything can change overnight. What you know, and what you've already put into the world, doesn't. So I build in the open and leave the work where others can pick it up.

France

I build from Pau, in southwest France.

Two companies here, both Jeune Entreprise Innovante. And almost everything I ship is C#, for a quieter reason: it sips power. Less energy, less CO₂. I won't save the planet by myself — I just pick the runtime that wastes nothing.

Why I create

Useful ideas stay with me until they become real.

This is how I think: follow the idea into a working product, test whether it creates value, improve it, and leave it where others can use it, break it, learn from it, and carry it further.

The choice

Do good work.

Where I come from, that's the whole instruction. No one but you decides what your work is worth — not the market, not the times. The choice stays yours. I choose to create.

Contact

Any of these reaches me.

Out there a question takes four years to reach home. Here it's a day.

The strand

The work stays public.

Products, code, writing, and fixes stay where people can inspect them, use them, and build on them.

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One day our DNAi reaches another star, carrying everything we were.