Dmitry Kargaev is a product designer turned AI engineer based in Los Angeles. He spent five years as Lead Product Designer at VALK, building tools used by 70+ financial institutions across 15+ countries, and before that was design lead at Spacecode, working on projects for Kaspersky, OTPBank, and 50+ other apps.

Now he builds multi-agent AI systems and writes about what artificial intelligence actually means for people with real jobs. Don't Replace Me is his first book. ...more

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I've Touched Everything and Mastered Nothing

Seventeen years. That's how long ADHD has been making me touch every skill, hobby, and career path that crossed my path. I'm 30 now. I've lived in eight countries, built products in five programming languages, shipped code on four blockchains, released music on Spotify under an artist name I genuinely cannot remember, and learned enough Vietnamese to haggle at a market in Nha Trang.

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Don't Replace Me: A Survival Guide to the AI Apocalypse

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