The Proactive Engineer
Shehab Abdel-SalamA bi-weekly column with insights on software engineering, career growth, AI, and product development.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 42 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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#40 How I manage tech debt with AI
One of the challenges I’ve been thinking about recently is ensuring code quality at scale. Specifically, on handling AI-generated code and finding use cases to adopt agentic workflows for overall better developer experience.
For context, I...
#39 On driving initiatives
The ability to drive new initiatives is a highly valued skill for engineering. Developing it requires time and patience, so engineers need to start leading initiatives with gradually increasing difficulty. Starting a first-time initiative w...
#38 Claude Code 101
I’ve been using Claude Code for a few weeks and I wish I had started earlier. Coding with Claude Code became much more fun, and this is just scratching the surface of what it can do and the range of complex problems it can solve.
So I thou...
#37 Making better decisions as an engineer
With the rise of AI slop across the internet—especially within engineering orgs—strong decision-making has become increasingly valuable skill for engineers.
Some make the mistake of having a project get blocked by a decision without explo...
#36 Looking ahead: AI in 2026
First edition of PE in 2026. Happy new year and hope you had a restful break!
As we’re entering the 2nd week of 2026, I wanted to share some thoughts and trends I’m seeing in the AI ecosystem. I’ve chatted with many software, AI, and prod...
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