The Engineering Wisdom
Rakia Ben SassiI break down architecture decisions, AI-assisted development, and the real-world engineering wisdom they don't teach in tutorials. This isn't beginner content. It's for working engineers who want depth, perspective, and clarity.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 167 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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What Happens When Your AI's Phone Line Drops Mid-Sentence (And Why It's Harder Than It Sounds)
Text bots are easy mode. Voice bots will humble you. Here's why.
Rosa’s stand mixer seized halfway through Saturday’s dough batch, both of Marcus’s hands buried wrist-deep in wet dough, flour dusted across the counter like a light snowfall...
The $0.04 AI That’s 200x Faster Than Modern Chatbots (Jev)
There’s a brand-new AI that is physically incapable of writing you a sentence. On purpose. And developers are obsessed with it.
Two days ago, an ex-OpenAI researcher shipped an AI that refuses to talk. Here’s why that might matter more tha...
Tool vs Skill vs Agent - Stop Nodding Along in AI Meetings
Watch now (43 secs) | Tool vs Skill vs Agent - Stop nodding along in AI meetings
Your engineer says: “I gave the agent a tool, it triggered a skill, which kicked off a sub-agent, which looped three times before calling MCP.”
The Bug That Only Shows Up in Production CI: return vs yield in pytest Fixtures
It’s 11pm. The PR has been approved. CI is green on your laptop. You push, grab a coffee, and watch the pipeline go red. Every test in the file fails with the same message: Expected “send_email” to have been called once. Called 0 times.
Yo...
DeepSeek Harness Explained
Watch now (37 secs) | Why "Everything Is a Plugin" Changes EVERYTHING
What on earth is a Harness? Why is DeepSeek suddenly screaming “Everything is a plugin”? And where do random names like OpenRouter and Ox-Alpha fit into this giant chess...
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Senior Software Engineer • Google Developer Expert • Speaker • Tech Instructor & Content Creator • 2 decades in tech. I break down the real-world engineering wisdom they don’t teach in tutorials for engineers looking for depth over hype.
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