Curitiba, Brazil · since 2007

I'm Ricardo Krug, founder and programmer. I build automation tools for businesses, mostly out of my work on Desio, and I write about that process.

Writing

Notes on the intersection of automation and programming.

2026-10-16 · 21 min read

90 minutes to cut off foreign users. A pledge signed over lunch. That is how AI is regulated now, and I argue builders deserve a published rule.

2026-10-12
How I Use AI on This Blog
AI interviews me, drafts, checks every sentence, and translates. Here is what each job does, who checks it, and why the checks matter more than the tool.
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Desio
Desio gives restaurants a platform to bring their customers back more often.
desio.app
Quick Park
Parking lot management: tickets, subscribers, payments and the cash register.
quickpark.pro

Since 2007: Started building for the web in my first internship at the city government (IMAP), with CMSs like Drupal and Joomla.
2011–2015: Finished law school (Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba).
2016–2022: Introcrim, my first startup: online education for law students. More than 1,500 post-graduate students and R$1 million in scholarships.
2019–2022: Master's at USP. Thesis: law is itself a technology of social control.
Desio: I built it and run it in production.
Consulting: I do private consulting.
Teaching: I taught law and criminology for six years.