Aleksei Prikhodko
Edmonton, AB

Aleksei Prikhodko

Senior AI engineer at Artificial Agency — Edmonton, Canada

Four years shipping LLM agents into AAA games at Inworld: long-term memory, behaviour engines, and the observability needed to trust them under a frame budget. Before that, inverse and ill-posed problems at Novosibirsk State University — three papers, 41 citations on the epidemic-modelling one.

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01 Inference optimization decoded: KV cache, Flash Attention, and why your LLM is slower than it should be

The optimizations every team names but few can order by payoff. Walked through in the sequence they actually matter, with the cost model behind each one.

teardown · inference · 12 min · aug 2026

054109no cacheKV cachebandwidth ceiling
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ML Canon59 landmark papers from McCulloch–Pitts to GRPO.1943 → 2026 · на русском
Game Dev Canon12 modules, 54 notes, 15 interactive labs — from arcade hardware to LLM-driven NPCs.54 notes · 15 labs · на русском
VectorAPLife as eight vectors instead of a to-do list.saas · live
Notesmarket regimes · strength · reading log · gamedev →