Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering. Building AI products + AI-native engineering teams. Talks SDLC, architecture, and dev craft.

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[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

The industry is over-indexing on "AI generalists" and killing specialists

Breadth without depth is just speed-running production pain. I had to write my thoughts down

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Code is cheap, spend your time on building experience

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The greatest myth across the entire industry right now is that after this feature we will start making good technical decisions

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“Hire on character train on skill” is such good advice...

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

2026: work so hard that people think AI did it

2020:

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Colleague: “your code is out of this world!”
Me: “you think it’s that good?!”
Colleague: “no it’s just totally unreadable”

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

You can't vibe code empathy!

Empathize with your user and you’ll build the right thing

Empathize with your team and you’ll make the right decisions

Empathize with your project and you’ll solve the right problems

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Building in public like...

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most people are more worried about being copied than making something worth copying

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The problem with AI is that we end up trying to build too much too fast

Your real competitive advantage is restraint

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leet code interviews for a claude code job

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@andruyeung AI gave me the false impression that i can multitask more than im actually able to. i'm refining my workflow to focus more on single tasks

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

@heyblake if AI is marketing better than you then it was just a matter of time anyway

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if AI is taking dev jobs but a big AI market is devs whats the plan?

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

@DThompsonDev i think this is true for B2C but for B2B it matters a whole lot to people outside of tech

eg how/where your data is held is a legal issue
stack can influence browser support for web apps which is important for the whole org etc etc

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

@toddsaunders most software has alwasy been CRUD operations with some workflow on top so at least we have a bit more now

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@Prathkum its fine if they represent the persons opinion and but just throwing slop out there for the sake of exposure is so annoying

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

@jacob_posel 100% agree. people that think having an equivalent product is all thats needed have clearly never worked in a competitive market

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

I have been coming back to this advice so much recently

“The questions you ask yourself determine your future; they guide your focus, which guides your actions and ultimately your results.”

— @geoffwoods , The AI-Driven Leader

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@trikcode ugly ✅
not broken

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@Niklas_Sikorra Hi people that want to *help* you win

[Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering @hashtagcoder]

I have been coming back to this advice so much recently

“The questions you ask yourself determine your future; they guide your focus, which guides your actions and ultimately your results.”

— @geoffwoods , The AI-Driven Leader

via Bookwise
https://t.co/xiskJLXzI1