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Everyone is tokenmaxxing around you, and you are standing there with extra tokens, not sure what to do with all these wasted resources. Normal. We were never blocked by the amount of code we could generate. The blocker was, and will always be, knowing what to build. I m not an expert, so I m not going [ ]
I m writing this at 8 AM in a park in Casablanca, one of the many morning walks I ve been doing lately. For some reason, Casablanca s weird, busy roads make our new daughter sleepy, so I m taking it! Anything that makes a baby sleep is a blessing. As our first child, we had no expectations. But [ ]
Some words have been used so much that they have stopped meaning anything. In Casablanca, sorry is one of them. Drive through the city for ten minutes, and you ll hear it. Or rather, see it. Someone will eventually run a red light, cut into your lane, or block an intersection. No eye contact. No acknowledgment. [ ]
Time flies. I ve been blogging for 10 years. Not every day, but a few times a year. Consistently enough that it became something. Little did I know that writing would become one of my best assets. When I switched to remote work, text became the primary communication tool. Every decision, every idea, every argument was [ ]
I ve learned a lot from the Internet, and I do my best to give back. Throughout the years, I tried to share as much as I could in different formats: text, audio, video, etc. But the only medium that stuck with me, and the one I keep coming back to, is text. Text is a [ ]
I ve been writing a lot lately about writing. All of it traces back to a quote I revisited from Paul Graham: In preindustrial times most people s jobs made them strong. Now if you want to be strong, you work out. So there are still strong people, but only those who choose to be. It will [ ]
With the rise of AI tools, many new options are emerging that enable collaboration with AI agents for tasks like running parallel research, checking quick info, and more. This includes Notion, Proof, and many others appearing every day. Every new tool is a chance to trap you in a closed-source system, make data access difficult, [ ]
Whenever I talk with Moroccan knowledge workers, I always get the same feeling: it s hard to be productive in Morocco. Of course, there are many reasons for this—family, obligations, and so on. But there s one thing that all these have in common. When you try to get anything done in Morocco, you ll quickly find yourself [ ]
Whenever AI is discussed among developers, there s often an all or nothing mindset. Some think AI will write all the software, while others avoid it because they believe it s not producing good code. It always seems to revolve around the code. But that shouldn t be the case. Developers can still use AI in other ways [ ]
Software engineering is changing, and the gap is widening. International experience and exposure to big projects used to give you an edge, and that s still true. But there is something else going on. The AI revolution is on another scale. Like it or not, a big chunk of your learning happens on the job. You [ ]