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Vitalii Vlasiuk & Literess

Mariia Ivakhnenko & Vitalii Vlasiuk

Vitalii Vlasiuk
Co-founder
Co-founder of Transept, writing as “Mevkh.” A Language and Literature degree, then a turn into software: senior AI engineer shipping production LLM features to 50,000+ users — RAG, agentic tools, LLM-as-judge evaluation. A novelist on the slow path, with 120,000 words of satirical romance fantasy in a drawer. The friction between AI translation and his own prose is what set this whole thing in motion.
2 articles

engineering
How much does AI translation actually think?
We tried to control Gemini 3's thinking budget the same way we did with Gemini 2.5. It doesn't work that way anymore. Here's what we measured instead.



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