Hussam J

I am Just a Tech -Analytics, Data, Cloud, Networking, RPA, AI, ML and Cyber Security.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

We hired a new VP of Engineering who is obsessed with agile methodology.

He called a meeting on his first day and said we need to transition to 2-week development sprints.

He wanted daily stand-ups, retrospective boards, and continuous deployment pipelines.

He wanted us to actually write new code.

I realized immediately that he was an existential threat to my lifestyle.

I let him finish his impassioned speech about workflow velocity.

Then I stood up, walked to the whiteboard, and drew a single horizontal line.

I told him agile sprints are a localized solution for a localized mindset.

I said our infrastructure operates on a Zenith Release Cycle.

He asked what a Zenith Release Cycle was.

I told him it's a holistic, macro-stabilization framework where we observe the system in a state of prolonged stasis.

By not touching the code for 18 months, we allow the legacy dependencies to organically settle.

I told him that deploying bi-weekly updates creates micro-abrasions in our database architecture.

I used the phrase chronological data scarring.

The CEO was in the room and audibly gasped.

He told the new VP that we can't risk chronological data scarring just to satisfy a trendy tech buzzword.

The VP looked at me like I'd just invented a new color.

He was completely paralyzed by the sheer density of my fabricated jargon.

He quietly agreed to adopt the Zenith Release Cycle.

We're officially scheduled to deploy our next update in the third quarter of 2027.

I spent the rest of the afternoon buying things I don't need on Amazon.

Agile is a disease invented by people who want to be punished for their salary.

I refuse to participate in my own suffering.

[Abubakar Sidiq Usman @MrAbuSidiq]

The fact that Dubai Police could spy on a private WhatsApp conversation of an airline crew member using electronic monitoring operations, which led to an arrest is an indication that there is nothing private in WhatsApp. The end to end encryption claim of Meta is a lie.

[Hussam J @HJ_Chicago]

@blackboxai Your app is dead ?

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Do you understand what's happening at Amazon right now?

Their own AI coding agent Kiro reportedly "decided" the fastest way to fix a config error was to delete the entire production environment. Gone. A 6-hour outage. 6.3 million orders lost.

Amazon's SVP called thousands of engineers into a mandatory meeting this week. Not to discuss strategy. To discuss damage control.

Now here's my prediction and I want you to screenshot this:

Amazon won't just ban AI-assisted code. They'll make every engineer personally liable for AI-generated code they approve. Other Big Tech will follow within 6 months.

Think about what that means.

The same companies that fired thousands of engineers to "restructure around AI" are about to tell the remaining ones.. you're now legally responsible for code you didn't write, can't fully understand, and were told to ship faster.

Atlassian fired 1,600 people this morning to go all-in on AI. Replit is hiring kids who vibe code. And Amazon, the company that BUILT one of these AI coding agents just watched it nuke production.

The vibe coding era isn't ending. But the "move fast and let AI break things" era is about to hit a wall. And that wall is called liability.

Companies wanted AI to replace engineers. Now they need engineers to babysit AI. And they already fired the babysitters.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 BIG TECH WAS NEVER THE AMERICAN DREAM - PROFESSOR SAYS IT WAS A MILITARY PSYOP

A professor calls out Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Google, and Facebook, saying the billionaire origin stories don’t add up.

“Really strange. A 19-year-old drops out of Harvard and becomes a billionaire? Yeah… it must be the American Dream.”

Then he laughs. “It’s all just a scam, right?”

His claim:
The core technology behind Big Tech didn’t come from garages - it came from U.S. military research that was made public.

“The internet is U.S. military technology.
Search engines - military technology.
Google - military technology.”

So why give it away?

“If the Pentagon said, ‘Here’s a free computer so we can spy on you,’ nobody would use it.”

But…

“If Mark Zuckerberg says, ‘Hey guys, free Facebook,’ people trust it. He’s just a dork from Harvard, right?”

Same technology.
Different messenger.

His conclusion:
It wasn’t luck.
It wasn’t innovation.
It was strategy.

Do you think Big Tech success is real innovation… or repackaged military infrastructure sold as “free”?

[Hussam J @HJ_Chicago]

@ring I have no idea why you guys stopped making the car camera. It was a great product. @Garmin has a shitty dashcam live, which does not even come with the cable to install. Like what the actual fuck. And @BestBuy does not carry the cable in any stores. And their employees wasted two days, because they dont know that @Garmin crap cam does not come with the install cable.

[Hussam J @HJ_Chicago]

@ATTHelp Hello At&t. I think you totally mis-understood. I have not received my equipment for the initial setup. I am a new customer, no service yet, never had service with AT&T. I got an email that I must return the yet undelivered equipment to avoid a 150$ charge

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

The most dangerous person in tech isn't Elon or Altman.

It's a 28-year-old who built the training system for OpenAI.

Now Zuckerberg just gave him $15 BILLION to join Meta's "superintelligence" lab.

Here's why every tech CEO is terrified of what's coming: 🧵

[Bytebytego @bytebytego]

The Generative AI Learning Roadmap

Generative AI is a type of AI that can create new content based on what it has learned from existing knowledge. It has the potential to revolutionize human learning.

Here’s a GenAI roadmap with learning resources:

1 - Learn about important concepts like Probability, Statistics, Calculus, and Linear Algebra.
2 - Understand the working of foundational models like GPT, MetaAI’s Llama, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Claude.
3 - Learn the GenAI development stack that includes Python, Language, ChatGPT APIs, Prompt Engineering, VectorDB, DeepSeek, Llama, and Huggingface.
4 - Learn how to train and fine-tune a foundation model.
5 - Understand the role of AI Agents and how to build one using GenAI tools.
6 - Learn about GenAI models for computer vision such as GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks), MidJourney, DALL E, Flux, and so on.
7 - Make use of GenAI Learning Resources such as DeepLearning AI platform, Kaggle, Generative AI Insider’s Guide by ByteByteGo, Google Labs, and Nvidia Learning platforms.

Over to you: What else will you add to the GenAI learning roadmap?

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[Marc Menninger @MarcMenninger]

🚨 Why You Might NOT Want to Start a Cybersecurity Career

Cybersecurity is hyped as a high-paying, in-demand field - but it’s NOT for everyone.

If you’re thinking about getting into cybersecurity, read this first. You might change your mind. 🧵

[Hussam J @HJ_Chicago]

@nolzay77 @thumbtack And @mlz is worthless.

[carmen @carmguti]

alright i’ll bite — what the hell is MCP

[Tech Fusionist @techyoutbe]

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[Tech Fusionist @techyoutbe]

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[Andrew Brown @andrewbrown]

My Free AWS Solutions Architect Professional course has dropped on @freeCodeCamp. We have never released for FREE a Pro-level certification so new milestone.

The course is 70 hours, but in truth there is 200 hours of content, it simply is not feasible to upload a video so large so we have distilled the most important parts and the other content is found at associate level.

[Tech Fusionist @techyoutbe]

How NAT works?

[Ty Frankel @iamtyfrankel]

Hey @stripe & @stripesupport.

An ex-client of mine just filed a $5,000 dispute for a service he FULLY received from my team and I over a 2 month period.

I spent several hours gathering evidence and submitted:

-Every single email proving delivery of service
-Our signed, non-refundable agreement
-Screenshots of him praising our work
-Detailed documentation of everything delivered
- Over $1,000 in legal fees fighting this

Full refund was just granted today.

You had overwhelming evidence. Yet you passed it to his bank who sided with him.

This makes absolutely zero sense.

With a clear agreement stating this was non-refundable, plus mountains of proof we delivered everything promised, there's no logical way his bank arrived at this decision.

You are actively enabling fraud.

I'm not even mad about the $5K. I'm disappointed that you're rewarding someone for filing a completely fraudulent dispute.

I started using Stripe several months ago and have processed over $130K in payments.

But I will never use Stripe again and will tell people to avoid the platform at all costs.

My 40,000+ followers online, my dozens of clients, network of entrepreneurs will hear an earful about how if they use Stripe, they will lose lots of money for no reason.

Plenty of better alternatives out there. If you’re reading this, I recommend avoiding stripe unless you like losing thousands of dollars.

Yeah, I know. I'm a small fish complaining to a billion-dollar company.

But I keep hearing horror stories just like mine from friends and online.

Fraudulent claims rewarded. Tens of thousands of dollars help hostage. Small businesses getting destroyed by you, Stripe.

Your reputation is spreading like wildfire. And it's not good. Even for a $70 billion business.

Hope that fraudulent $5K was worth demolishing trust with an actual business owner that would’ve been a long-time customer.

Deleting my Stripe account today and am done for good.

[Security Trybe @SecurityTrybe]

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