Karol Bąk
Software engineer writing about backend, infrastructure, AI, and open source.
01 /Recent Projects
orchdex.com
Browse a directory of orchestrators for agents like Codex and Claude Code, whether they run locally, on a remote machine or in the cloud. A feature matrix and side-by-side compare help you pick one.
slopicide.com
Slopicide rates any public GitHub repo from 0, handcrafted to 100, peak slop, and gives you a report you can share. Use it to check your own project, size up a repo before you depend on it, or just settle an argument with friends.
down.watch
Downwatch watches GitHub, Cloudflare, OpenAI and 40+ more status pages every few minutes and shows what's down, degraded, or in maintenance at a glance.
02 /Open Source
03 /Tech I Work With
04 /Recent Posts
Don't let AI burn you out
AI made me faster, then it made me chaotic. Here's how I learned to run multiple agents without burning out.
Your website's next visitor is an AI agent
AI agents are already browsing your website. Here's how to make sure they can understand and interact with it.
The review bottleneck: when AI codes faster than you can read
AI can produce more code than ever. The bottleneck is no longer writing it - it's reviewing it. Here's how I made it less painful.