Hello, Fellow Tech Enthusiasts! 
Here’s your monthly update from Ralabs and the broader tech world.
📊 Focus & Insights
- We hosted another successful webinar in May. Together with Elidor Varosi (Senior LLM Engineer) and Qeto Matitaishvili (Innovation Strategist), we discussed how LLMs are reshaping fintech—driving efficiency and scaling smarter. You can catch the full recording on our YouTube channel.
- On May 28th at 6 PM CET, we hosted a founder-to-founder session on how AI agents are transforming developer workflows and enterprise automation. The session featured Roman Rodomansky, Co-Founder & COO, Ralabs and James Hotson, Co-Founder & CGO, Katara AI. Full recording is available here.
👩🏼💼 HR Updates
- We welcomed six new team members last month, bringing us to 100 full-time employees!
- This month we ran two internal sessions: From Technical to Tactical: Soft Skills That Matter and How Search Functionality Evolves from Simple Queries to Powerful Engines.
- 15th May was Vyshyvanka Day — a special occasion in Ukraine when we wear embroidered shirts to celebrate our cultural identity, history, and strength. This year, we marked it as a celebration of national dress more broadly, inviting team members to wear their traditional clothing and join a friendly photo competition. Seeing how diverse our team has become was both heartwarming and inspiring.
📈 Business Development
- Our mentoring program continues to prove its value. Over the years, I’ve seen that when teammates share knowledge with each other, the impact is far greater than any external coaching. This month, satisfaction with the program hit a record high of 96%.
- We also continue to adopt AI in practical ways — from code completion and boilerplates to writing unit tests and experimenting with agentic AI. The space is evolving fast, and we’re keeping pace through hands-on exploration and internal knowledge sharing.
💼 Open Positions at Ralabs
- Middle QA Specialist;
- Middle/Senior Business Analyst;
- Data Scientist/ Machine Learning Engineer;
- Node.js/MongoDB Engineer;
- QA/AQA JavaScript Specialist;
- Senior AI Engineer with Python;
- Senior Vue.js Engineer;
- Senior Full-stack (Python+React or Vue) Engineer.
💻 Coding Insights
- Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot free and open source under the MIT License. You can now fork it, modify it, or even build your own platform on top — legally and openly. More info.
- Cursor rolled out some major updates: simpler pricing, background agent, and inline editing. We’ve started experimenting with it and early results look promising. Learn more.
- Jules: an async agent that quietly handles tasks in the background while you stay focused on coding.
- Finally found a solid UML diagramming tool. Worth a look.
- Juvio is a UV kernel for Jupyter that installs packages from within the notebook, tracks dependencies as metadata, and supports reproducible workflows.
- Copilot Coding Agent: assign issues to this agent and let it run background development tasks in a secure, cloud-based sandbox.
- Marginalia Search: A search engine prioritizing non-commercial content. Interesting filters include blogs, academia, plain text, and more.
- Some useful tricks to help you write tomorrow’s legacy code today.
- A good read on the hidden cost of AI-generated code.
- Restate: Break your app into steps and use Restate to track, retry, and debug transitions.
- Feedsmith: A library for generating/parsing RSS, Atom, JSON, RDF, and OPML feeds.
🤖 AI Developments
- GPT‑4.1 is now live, along with mini and nano variants. Early benchmarks suggest meaningful improvements in coding and instruction-following compared to GPT‑4o.
- OpenAI has officially launched Codex — a cloud-based software engineering agent designed to handle multiple tasks in parallel. It can write features, answer questions about your codebase, fix bugs, and suggest pull requests for review. Each task runs in its own cloud sandbox environment preloaded with your repo. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI’s o3 model optimized specifically for software development. Read more.
- Google I/O 2025 was focused entirely on AI: Search, Gmail, Chrome updates, smarter assistants, new smart glasses partnerships, and more. Highlights.
- Apple announced plans to let developers build apps using smaller on-device versions of Apple Intelligence. The SDK will exclude access to cloud-hosted models. Read more.
- Amazon is reportedly working on a multimodal AI code-generation tool with web and desktop support. The tool can integrate with third-party agents.
📚 Books and Reading
- No book recommendations this time — between travel and meetings, I haven’t had the headspace. If you have any short, insightful audiobooks to recommend, hit reply. I’ll share favorites next time.
💡 Thoughts
- Healthcare is one of those sectors where the margin for error is exceptionally narrow. A 20% accuracy gap that might be fine in logistics could be critical in medicine. We often confuse performance with safety — but in healthcare, those are very different things. A model that performs well in general settings may still hallucinate or misinterpret data when used in a clinical context. That’s not a UX flaw — that’s a safety issue.
AI should assist, not replace. Decisions still need to be reviewed by trained professionals. I’m also convinced we won’t see a single general-purpose model for medicine. More likely, we’ll rely on smaller, specialized tools — one for imaging, one for triage, one for documentation. Regulations like HIPAA and GDPR might feel slow, but they exist for good reason. They force us to be thoughtful.
🔍 Other Noteworthy Mentions
- Magai lets you access all major AI tools in one place for $20/month.
- A reminder for QA teams: The Cost of Finding Bugs Later in the SDLC is still too high.
- OpenAI’s Responses API now includes tools like image generation, code interpreter, file search, and remote MCP server support. Read more.
- No one knows what the hell an AI agent is.
- Found an AI for your UI. Stitch lets you generate UI designs by typing prompts or uploading an image. Worth exploring.
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Lastly, as a company with deep Ukrainian roots, we continue to seek your support for Ukraine during these challenging times. Every contribution makes a difference.
