Listening and equipment
Systems, recordings and product design.
Engineering leader
AI-native software development and product engineering.
I’m Andrei Panov. I lead engineering teams and work on complex software systems. This site collects my writing, projects, photographs and notes.
- WorkAI engineering, product systems, engineering leadership
- WritingSoftware development, organisations, technology and society
- Outside workPhotography, audio, metal and physical media
01 / Work
Selected writing
Essays and frameworks based on practical engineering and leadership work.
Designing Development Around Agent Loops
A practical model for moving beyond prompt-based workflows: state, tools, evaluation, correction and escalation.
When Coordination Costs More Than Execution
What changes when production gets faster but decision rights, approval boundaries and ownership do not.
Good Defaults and Expert Tools
How software can reduce effort for new users without limiting control, depth or professional use.
02 / Notes
03 / Society
Technology and society
Longer observations about ownership, platforms, work, attention and technological dependence.
Convenience Is Not the Same as Progress
Evaluating technology by the behaviour and dependencies it creates, not only by the effort it removes.
What We Own When Everything Is a Service
Platforms, licensed access and the practical meaning of permanence for media, tools and personal archives.
Slow Technology Without Nostalgia
Choosing pace, control and deliberate use without pretending older technology was automatically better.
04 / Photography
Recent trips
Photo sets organized by place and date. The abstract frames are placeholders for the final image selections.
05 / Interests
Outside engineering
Occasional posts and notes from other interests.
Metal and physical media
Albums, collections and listening notes.
Older hardware
Computers, games and industrial design.
06 / About Me
About Me
I’m an engineering leader with more than fifteen years in software, working across product engineering, organisational systems and AI-native development.
I’m particularly interested in how agentic systems change the development process, how evaluation fits into engineering workflows, and why organisational design often determines whether new technology has any meaningful effect.
I also photograph cities and write occasionally about technology and society, audio, music, physical media and older hardware.