Botir Khaltaev
I'm Botir, an independent founder-engineer interested in systems that are simple, durable, and unusually clear.
Most software fails long before it fails technically: the abstractions get vague, the state goes missing, and nobody remembers what the system is trying to become. I write about that boundary between machinery and judgment.
The through-line is introspective agency: staying awake enough to notice what you're doing, why you're doing it, and whether it still serves the goal. This site is my public notebook on operating systems, databases, AI infrastructure, founding, and that kind of ruthless self-correction. Check out my blog.
May 9, 2026
AI Agents Should Be Simple
May 2, 2026
The Era of Asynchrony
March 5, 2026
Writing a RISC-V Kernel in Zig: Boot, Paging, and a Working Shell
February 16, 2026
Why Most People Have LLM Routing Wrong
October 21, 2025
Building ZeroPool: How I Made LLM Checkpoint Loading 3.8x Faster
September 24, 2025
What 70 Years of Operating System Failures Taught Me About Building Better Software