Akram Ahmad

Independent software developer with several decades’ worth of expertise. Deep into AI and writing. Check my tech blog at the coordinates below.

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Let https://t.co/QnXKWqbbFp Transform Your Blog Posts & Ideas Into Video Shorts! https://t.co/hUFwUAvFPq

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@matryer lol 😇 given your fantastic—and inimitable—sense of humor, I should've seen through it: i.e. you were springing an April Fool's joke on unwitting, um, fools like me 😅 and oh yes, I ❤️ Grafana, use it every single day!

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@matryer OMG! 🙈

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Hope And Creativity https://t.co/k2p0XHx3fV

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Do Good To Do Well https://t.co/tVRJhdTdr5

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And the journey continues in earnest 🌄https://t.co/8zV5pyWFsy

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Delighted to see your vote of approval 😀

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Everything I know about technical blogging, I learned from @acangiano and his book, pictured here atop my bookshelf 📚Now in its second edition, no other book on this crucial topic even comes close to this one ⭐️

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So the journey began back in 2014 ⛵ when I started posting my essays online -> Then yesterday, I made was the BIG switch! https://t.co/7b433m9VIn

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Totally true 🎯

[Phuong Le @func25]

The best investment for your career right now is not a new language or a new AI tool.

It is learning system design and the fundamentals deeply, because AI can generate code but it cannot reliably decide what should be built or why.

AI is good at typing. It is bad at thinking through tradeoffs.
It can write functions, boilerplate, CRUD, small helpers. But real engineering work is choosing between options.

- Should this be a service or a monolith.
- Should we cache or not.
- Should we optimize for speed or cost.
- How will this scale.
- What breaks first.
- How do we recover.

AI does not truly reason about these. It guesses based on patterns it has seen.

If you do not understand design yourself, you cannot tell when AI is wrong and that is dangerous. You will ship fragile systems and not even notice until production fails.
So the practical move is this.

- Spend most of your learning time on system thinking, performance, and the fundamentals that drive them
- Practice breaking problems into components.
- Practice drawing architectures.
- Practice explaining why you chose one design over another.
- Read real systems and ask what could go wrong.
- Review code and ask what happens at 10x traffic.

AI is a fast junior developer. Useful, but you still need to lead.

If you build strong design skills, you become the person who makes decisions. If you only rely on AI to code, you become replaceable.

Design skill compounds, tools change and that is the long term bet.

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Why Blogging (and Writing) Are Alive and Well #innovation #motivation #c... https://t.co/EYNWl1nwjb via @YouTube

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Golden Pixel Labs, LLC is official ✅
Building a product in the social media software space (stealth for now).
More soon.

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It's easy enough to give in to the siren calls, and delegate it all to AI. And delegation of routine tasks is totally fine. But do you really want to delegate your deepest, creative thinking to AI? 🧐 https://t.co/RkTZbr56H7

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Writing is alive and well, picturesque speechless style 🎁

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I ❤️ this!

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"If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs." -Derek Sivers

The world rewards the builders.

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Well said: “The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.” 🎲
- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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