Tech companies after the AI hype! 😲

It's more like nightmares than dreams. Crazy! 🙀

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Wrote a small essay on a very important distributed systems topic of "scaling a system". The analogy in the article will help you remember the fundamental concept for a longer time, especially helpful during interview preparation. Please take a look.

Everyone believes that "AI is useful". But most certainly no one believes that "Only AI is useful" (& everything else is dead). Some CEOs are painting the 2nd picture causing panic in the industry for their self-interest. I meet various folks daily who are scared because of this

He saved thousands of dollars and vibe coded something no off-the-shelf product could ever deliver. Srdjan Stakic was a film producer with zero coding experience and zero technical training. His elderly parents needed reliable monitoring at home, specifically, a system that

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