Prologue: Stubbornness and Math
It was early 2025. I was searching for my path. I had a background in employment, my own business, and plenty of trial and error. But I’m stubborn. If I decide to do something, I’ll do it—no matter how much time, resources, or nerves it costs.
Everyone was talking about AI. It sounded like the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Naturally, I wanted everything at once.
I’ve had a quirk since childhood: I never studied math, never did my homework, yet I’d go to Olympiads and solve problems better than the straight-A students. Logic is my thing. So, I thought: “I’m 38. I’m not a programmer. But if I have logic and the computer has code, we’ll get along.”
Spoiler: we did get along, but first, it gave me a serious beating. 🥊
Chapter 1. The “Magic Wand” Illusion
I started like a typical enthusiast: “I’ll be an AI Consultant!” I went around telling acquaintances how neural networks would change their lives. It didn’t bring in much money, so I had to hustle on the side.
Then I decided: “I need an Agent.” For two months (!), I tinkered with GPTs settings, building assistants and writing instructions. Then it hit me: Flexibility is everything. All these builders and ready-made agents are only good for boring, repetitive tasks. If you want rock and roll, you need code.
In April 2025, I told the AI: “Write me a bot.” It gave me a chunk of code. I stared at it like a deer in headlights. Where do I paste this? How do I run it?
I downloaded VS Code (thanks to the AI for at least suggesting the right editor). And that’s when I learned Lesson #1:
AI provides solutions based on your level. If you’re a “junior” asking silly questions, it gives you crooked, “childish” code. To get a SOTA (State of the Art) solution, you need to understand what you’re asking for.
It got ridiculous. I would struggle for a week over a function, only to find out it was a “crutch” (a hacky workaround) and not how market leaders do it. The AI would happily nod: “Yes, this is top tier!” while I was building a house of cards.
Chapter 2. Summer in Kazan and the “Frankenstein Bot”
My “Firstborn” was a single file with 700 lines of code. A simple finance tracking bot. But that wasn’t enough. I wanted scale.
I moved to Kazan for the summer. Great city: I ran along the embankment to clear my head, and spent the rest of the time coding.
I decided to create the Ultimate Personal Assistant. I stuffed it with everything I knew:
- Income and expense tracking (PostgreSQL with a pile of tables).
- Goals and schedules.
- RAG (Knowledge Base) so it could act smart using my documents.
- Referral system.
- Payment processing.
It was a monster. Technically cool. I even rigged up complex logic for it to read files. But when I opened it myself… I didn’t know where to click. 🤯 It was a classic engineering mistake: “Look at all these features!” while the user thinks: “Where is the ‘Make it Good’ button?”
I tried selling these solutions on freelance marketplaces. But it’s hell out there. Clients want a “bot for $5”, and competitors churn out templates using no-code builders. Explaining to someone why they need a complex Python bot with a database and AI brains, when “Bob with a builder” is cheaper, was impossible.
My plan to conquer the world via bots had failed.
Chapter 3. The Technical Pain (What Courses Don’t Tell You)
To help you understand why I’m so obsessed with proper architecture now, let me tell you about RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation—when AI answers based on your files).
In theory, it’s beautiful: upload a PDF, get an answer. In practice, it’s a nightmare:
- Parsers break. A slightly complex layout in a document, and the AI sees garbage instead of text.
- Tokens burn. I drained budgets because a bad prompt forced the model to re-read the same text 10 times.
- Hallucinations. You ask for a service price, and it pulls a number from a phone number.
I spent weeks rebuilding logic. Just when I’d finish, a new model would drop. It’s smarter, but the response structure is different. And suddenly, your code for 10 files is dead, everything is red, everything is broken. Sit down, rewrite.
That’s when I realized: You cannot store logic in chaos. You need a system.
Chapter 4. The Epiphany: The Site as the Center of the Universe
I looked at my struggles and realized: Telegram is a dead end if you don’t have your own “Home”.
A bot is just an interface, a “window”. The “Home” is the website. I needed an Ecosystem:
- One Brain: One knowledge base, one logic.
- Different Hands: The Website, Telegram, WhatsApp—these are just communication channels.
I started building websites with AI widgets. And I stepped on a rake again. The AI suggested the FastAPI + Jinja2 stack. It said: “This is top tier for speed.” I built it. It worked fast. I was happy. Then I checked the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)—and saw that search engines were “lagging”. They were slow to index the pages. Okay for a pet project, but not Market Leader level.
I dug deeper. What is the actual top tier in the world right now? What are the fastest sites of 2025 built on? The answer was: Astro.
Chapter 5. Why Astro + Python = Love
I rewrote everything on Astro.
- Astro delivers static content. This means the site loads instantly, like an image. Google loves this.
- Python (FastAPI) remained on the backend to think the complex thoughts (AI, databases).
The result? Anomalously fast indexing. Search engines fly onto the site, see clean code, understand everything, and immediately throw it into the search results. Widget integration with the chat, a unified knowledge base, management via Telegram—everything clicked into a single puzzle.
Finale: What I Offer Now
I traveled the path from “write me some code” to architecting complex systems. I know how painful it is when a JSON breaks, and how frustrating it is when no one buys your cool bot.
That is why I don’t make “simple bots” anymore, and I don’t make “template sites”.
I create AI Ecosystems:
- Next-Gen Sites (Astro): They fly, Google loves them, they sell.
- AI Brain (RAG): Trained on your data, zero hallucinations.
- The Connection: This brain answers the client on the site, in Telegram, and in WhatsApp.
- Control: You see everything in your CRM, not by hunting through chat logs.
If you want a solution level 2025, not a chewed-up builder from 2020—write to me. I love complex challenges. It’s just my character. 😉