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Darja Gazivoda
Senior Engineer & Technical Writer at StepTo, writing on AI systems, LLM integration, and production engineering.
Darja Gazivoda
Senior Engineer & Technical Writer
Darja Gazivoda is a senior engineer at StepTo with deep experience in AI systems, LLM integration, and production engineering. She writes about the practical realities of building AI-augmented software teams, what works, what breaks, and what engineering leaders should actually be measuring.
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Articles by Darja Gazivoda (17)
- How to Outsource AI Development for Your Business: What to Know Before You Hire Anyone · 8 min read
- How to Add AI to Your Existing Business Software: What to Expect Before You Hire Anyone · 7 min read
- Built It With AI, Now It's Breaking: When to Stop Vibe Coding and Hire a Software Development Agency · 7 min read
- The COBOL Shock: What Anthropic's February Announcement Reveals About Legacy Modernization, and What Engineering Leaders Still Don't Understand · 10 min read
- The Protocol That Makes Agents Talk: Why the A2A Standard Is the Most Important Infrastructure Decision Your Engineering Team Isn't Making Yet · 9 min read
- The SaaS Kill List: Which Software Categories AI Agents Are Actually Replacing in 2026, and Where Humans Still Win · 9 min read
- The $1.20 vs $120 Decision: Why Engineering Teams Are Deploying Small Language Models Instead of Calling the API · 11 min read
- The AI Infrastructure Trap: How the Big Three Are Quietly Locking Your Engineering Organization In · 9 min read
- When AI Leaves the Screen: What the Humanoid Robot Production Boom Means for Software Engineering Teams · 9 min read
- Your AI Agents Are Production Microservices. Is Your Engineering Team Treating Them That Way? · 9 min read
- 84% of Developers Use AI. Only a Third Trust It. Here's What That Gap Is Costing Your Engineering Team · 8 min read
- When AI Crashed Bengaluru: Inside the Collapse of the $300 Billion Offshore IT Model · 10 min read
- The 77% Problem: Why Your Biggest LLM Security Risk Is Already Inside Your Organization · 9 min read
- The EU AI Act Deadline Is an Engineering Problem: What CTOs Must Build Before August 2026 · 10 min read
- AI Tools Every Software Engineering Team Should Actually Use in 2026 (and What to Skip) · 11 min read
- The Quiet Web: Why AI's Training Data Crisis Is the Engineering Risk Nobody Is Pricing In · 9 min read
- Agentic Engineering Is Here. Here's What CTOs Should Stop Outsourcing, and What They Should Start · 9 min read
