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You and Your Career So many students and engineers ask me for career advice.

As software engineers, we want everything to be perfect: the code, the variable names, the architecture, the tests, the documentation, the CI/CD pipeline, and so on.

Now that the cost of generating code for a feature or a bug fixes has dropped to near zero, the conversation in company has shifted a to a new bottleneck.

Everyone in my network...software engineers, content creators, students, and business people feels like they are lagging behind.

When I got my first job in 2015 after being jobless for a year, Within 3 months in the company I realized that job security is a myth.

I really hate audio messages, especially WhatsApp voice notes.

AI research has been going on for the last 25 years, and the majority of their focus was to solve medical problems.

Humans want to have total control over things.

OpenClaw created history in tech by becoming a full-fledged product from a side project in a matter of a few days.

This is my rule of three, which I derived from a book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby for creating abstraction when it’s repeated three times.

I am an IntelliJ user for a decade and moved to Cursor last year.

It’s very hard to keep up with all the new AI models, agents, tools, and workflows that are released each day.

We used to read, write, and draw a lot in our childhood, but as we grew older, we lost these skills.

Happy new Year 2026 everyone🎉 and I am proud to publish my 50th issue🎊.

🎄🎅🏽 Merry Christmas, everyone!

There are two types of learning: Just-in-case learning which is what we do in school.

I’ve tried a ton of different AI workflows, watched countless YouTube videos, read blog posts, tried different approaches.

I didn’t know the meaning of “burn the bridges” until someone pointed it out after I did.

First of all, 🪔 Happy Diwali everyone 🪔 We need more Product Engineers because writing code was never the hard part.

Most people do great work, but they don’t have a proper place to store or organize their work and experience.