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The Growing Engineer

Lorenz Hofmann-Wellenhof

\ud83d\udc68‍\ud83d\udcbb Software Engineer @ AI unicorn \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Sharing my lessons for non-stop growth in AI, coding, and life optimizations. Cheating on my GF with Claude Code \ud83d\ude43

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