Tigran Hakobyan
I'm a software engineer working on the AI platform at Netflix. This site is the journal of my thoughts on things I find interesting — a place to make sense of work, writing, and the world.
If you're new here, start with one of the essays below. Most of what matters on this site lives in the writing.
Start here
- Working for Someone vs. Doing Your Own ThingOn the tension between a job and building your own thing.
- The Soul of Our WorkWhat meaningful work feels like when the craft still matters.
- On Writing, Parenthood, and AI's FutureWriting, family, and how AI is reshaping both.
Recent writing
- Becoming an Adult, AgainOn fatherhood, losing the habit of finishing things, and what raising two toddlers teaches you about time, work, and adulthood.
- Your career after having kidsSome curious and surprising facts about you and your career after having kids.
- Looking Back to 2025Reflecting on last year and looking ahead to 2026. A year of toddler parenthood and busy work, with highlights including completing a half-ironman, starting a Substack blog, traveling to Europe, and plans for the year ahead.
- Building with Claude CodeThoughts on programming interfaces, agentic workflows, and the future of coding.