The Orlov Book

Chapter VIII of VIII · autumn 2026

Chapter VIII. Varna

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In autumn 2026 he left Belarus and settled in Varna. In two weeks in the new city he built the AI · VARNA community: a website, a Telegram group and the first Saturday meetup on 24 October.

He leads an AI team: Codex, Claude and Kimi receive tasks, and disputed decisions go to a council of models. In work: Simsara and the Matreya Institute at the intersection of AI and Buddhism, the PocketDeploy pocket server, 'Orlov Antivirus', the TonForge marketplace and the 6–7 SWITCH meme-brand.

The year was hard: an unsuccessful marriage, which he wrote about himself, a difficult spring, disputes with a landlord and with bureaucracy in a new place. But he is building again.

A man is not the one who never falls. A man is the one who gets up.from his Instagram post