Tag: Career Growth

AI & Machine Learning Aug 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Treating AI Learning Like a Checklist: What Actually Works in 2026

I started learning AI the wrong way. It was late 2024, I was frustrated watching my peers ship AI features faster than me, and I threw myself at every free course I could find. I did a week of Andrew Ng's fundamentals, jumped into a Hugging Face course on Transformers I wasn't re...

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AI & Machine Learning Aug 15, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Blaming ChatGPT: Your Data Pipeline Is the Real Problem

Last month, I watched a client's "AI-powered" customer classification system confidently assign "fraud" to a legitimate order because the customer's shipping address had a typo. The system worked flawlessly in demos. In production, it was a disaster. Our team spent a week debuggi...

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Web Development Aug 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Git Isn't Optional, It's Your Professional Baseline (And I Learned That the Hard Way)

Three years ago, I was working on a freelance project and decided to "just be quick" with file management. No Git, no version control, just me, my code editor, and what I thought was a solid backup system. Then a client asked me to revert a feature. I couldn't. Not cleanly anyway....

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Career Growth Git

Tech News Aug 9, 2026 • 4 min read

The Senior Engineer Trap: Why Your Best Code Won't Make You An Architect

I spent three years at a fintech startup where I owned the payment processing system. The code was pristine. Test coverage above 90%. I could optimize queries in my sleep. But when the CTO asked me to design our next-gen infrastructure for handling 10x growth, I froze.

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Career & Growth Aug 4, 2026 • 4 min read

When a Fellowship Teaches You That Structure Matters More Than Stack Knowledge

I spent last year watching a junior developer I know grind through online courses, Docker tutorials, Linux command-line deep dives, container orchestration frameworks, only to hit a wall when it came to actually landing a job. They knew the technical bits. They could explain overla...

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Career Growth Kubernetes

AI & Machine Learning Aug 4, 2026 • 5 min read

The Exception Queue Problem I Didn't Know Was Universal Until I Stopped Building Dashboards

I spent three years building a data pipeline that automated report generation for e-commerce clients. The system worked beautifully, until it didn't. One client had a rule-breaking inventory pattern, another needed custom date handling, and suddenly my "set it and forget it" autom...

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Python Career Growth

AI & Machine Learning Aug 2, 2026 • 5 min read

I Learned the Hard Way: Why "Pending" Saved My Career (and My Client's Money)

Two years ago, I shipped a payout system that I was genuinely proud of. It was fast, it was clean, and it handled payments with what I thought was bulletproof logic. A user requests money. We hit the bank API. Success or failure. Move on. Then one Tuesday morning at 3 AM, my phon...

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JavaScript Career Growth

Career & Growth Jul 31, 2026 • 4 min read

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Career & Growth Jul 29, 2026 • 1 min read

Why I'm Starting Before I'm Ready

Stop Waiting. Start Building. For a long time, I believed I needed to be "ready." Ready with a stronger portfolio. Ready with more skills. Ready with a clearer career plan. So I waited....

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Career Growth

Programming Jul 29, 2026 • 4 min read

Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu

Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu When most people think about learning software engineering, they picture classrooms, lectures, and hours of note-taking....

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