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Why rubber ducking matters more than ever in the AI era
most of the code I shipped this year started life as a prompt. I would guess yours did too? I read about this and , in February 2025 Andrej Karpathy gave this a name . He called it vibe coding , where you "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." He wrote "I 'Accept All' always, I don't read the diffs anymore," and admitted the code "grows beyond my usual comprehension." "vibe" in Flash tv series People tend to skip the next part. He said it was "not too bad for throwaway weekend projects." The person who coined the term told us where it belongs, and most of us aren't building throwaway weekend projects. In the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey , 66% of developers said their biggest frustration was "AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite." "Almost right" is the phrase that sticks with me. Code that's obviously wrong gets caugh...
my 4-Step strategy for the modern Job hunting
I recently caught up with a former colleague of mine. Let’s call him Sama(no no , it's not real Sama) a few weeks ago, Sama found himself on the wrong side of a "restructure." 😓😢 Between the rapid adoption of AI and a shift toward offshoring for cost-cutting, his role was made redundant. it’s a story I’m hearing more often lately. We sat down to look at his next move. job market has changed, and the old way of "Update CV -> Hit Apply -> Wait" is no longer a winning formula. do companies even hire for real? Using AI as our research partner, we built a proactive framework to get him back in the game. I call it the Cold, Hot, Long, Short strategy. if you’re feeling the pressure of a tightening market, here is how we broke it down: 1. Cold Step (The Proactive Reach) Most people wait for a LinkedIn/Seek notification. by then, you’re competing with 500 other applicants. The Move: We used AI to identify companies that just raised funding or expanded their ...