Oleg Nikeshin, AI automation engineer from Ulyanovsk. A personal archive: agents in production, Telegram bots, analytics automation, games and notes.https://nikeshin.space/enhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/telegram-to-chatgpt/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/telegram-to-chatgpt/It started as a very domestic problem: I wanted to ask ChatGPT what a particular person had written to me on Telegram, and get an answer. Not copy the conversation by hand. Not export the messages. Not open a second client next to it.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTlabahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/freedom-without-brakes/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/freedom-without-brakes/There are people for whom freedom is a value. And there are people for whom it's almost physiology. Not an idea. Not a political position. Not a fine-sounding word.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsignalhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/i-stopped-keeping-work-in-my-head/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/i-stopped-keeping-work-in-my-head/A few weeks ago I gathered the support context into a single folder. Configs, project notes, instructions, analytics and the route from ticket to logs all ended up there.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrabotahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/shekh-follows-volga/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/shekh-follows-volga/We went to the same school. Then school ended and our lives went separate ways. SHEKH left for Moscow to study. That is where he was diagnosed with lymphoma. I remember him coming back to Ulyanovsk during treatment. I remember the chemotherapy, the hair falling out, and how hard all of it looked.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTzatesihttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/murphys-and-guinness/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/murphys-and-guinness/There is a Krasnoe & Beloe near my building — one of those Russian corner liquor chains. An ordinary shop in an ordinary residential district. Entrances, parking, a playground, people carrying bags home from work.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdomhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/arkhangelskoye/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/arkhangelskoye/Lena and I were in the same class once. Then our lives drifted quite far apart. She worked in information security and built her own projects. One of them was called NaDom — a bot for ordering IV drips at home, with a web app and all the architecture it would have been easier not to build at all.…Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTzatesihttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/i-didnt-quit-smoking/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/i-didnt-quit-smoking/I smoked around a pack and a half a day. At some point that stops registering as "I smoke sometimes." The cigarette becomes punctuation. Woke up. Lit one. Finished a task. Lit one. Got stuck. Lit one.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTzatesihttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/the-right-to-your-own-rhythm/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/the-right-to-your-own-rhythm/The most perfect system does not forbid you to choose. It arranges things so that you choose on time. Before you have understood the question. Before you have heard yourself. Before you have noticed who set the available answers in the first place.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTzatesihttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/a-bot-for-phuket/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/a-bot-for-phuket/The idea was not mine. I was handed a concept for a Phuket service, and my job was to turn it into a working system. Somewhere between six buttons and the first real request, PostgreSQL appeared.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlabahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/helping-the-gospel-be-heard/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/helping-the-gospel-be-heard/A little about Nikolai Solomonov's ministry and my part in this story. For the past few months I have been helping now and then with the digital side of the ministry of Nikolai Solomonov, a pastor and Christian preacher from Kazan.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlabahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/walking-home-with-a-bag/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/walking-home-with-a-bag/In December I was walking home from the corner shop. People were standing by the entrance. A few minutes later I had been appointed head of the entrance. I had no plan to get involved with the building.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdomhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/a-shat-hero-from-a-closed-city/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/a-shat-hero-from-a-closed-city/There is music whose origin you can set aside. With Svidetelstvo o Smerti — Death Certificate — you cannot. The band appeared in 1994 in Znamensk, Astrakhan region. Not merely a small provincial town but a ZATO, a closed administrative-territorial formation: Znamensk was the administrative and…Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsignalhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/nine-months-for-one-bot/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/nine-months-for-one-bot/A small Telegram bot turned out to be a nine-month exercise not in programming, but in holding a system together while almost everything around it changed. At the end of October I rather accidentally took on a Telegram bot for one project. The task did not look large.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTlabahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/support-in-a-folder/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/support-in-a-folder/A difficult ticket rarely begins with the error itself. First you have to work out whose bot this is. Then which agent. Which channel it runs through. Find the current config. Understand what happened in the dialogue. Pull the analytics. If there is still no answer, go into the logs and try to…Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrabotahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/three-days/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/three-days/There are films where you wait for something to happen. In Three Days a different feeling gradually takes hold: everything has already happened. Nobody told the characters what it was.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsignalhttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/how-i-became-an-ai-engineer/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/how-i-became-an-ai-engineer/I never planned to change profession. I simply spent too long automating my own work. When I joined ChatMe support, I had no plan to become an AI engineer. There were tickets, client bots, scenarios, integrations and the ordinary support task: work out what broke, and either fix it or gather enough…Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrabotahttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/the-watchmans-hut/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/the-watchmans-hut/Ten months ago I had no idea what I would be doing a year later. From a distance it is very convenient to turn the past into a route. This is where it all began. This is where I understood something. This decision led to the next one.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTzatesihttps://nikeshin.space/en/entry/five-production-projects/https://nikeshin.space/en/entry/five-production-projects/My first long article went up on the ChatMe blog — about AI automation in chatbot support. It started plainly enough: support was spending its time not so much on hard problems as on hunting for data, pulling exports, assembling reports, reading logs and reconstructing the context of a ticket.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTrabota