Recently I have been coaching my team to use AI for development. There are many tools that we can used for free to get so much value (such as Cline w/ gemini or openrouter, co-pilot, etc). Thus, we should not be shying away from this […]
Background Just as I fixed one problem and got something to work, another piece of my system is breaking. This time, my webscrapper is being challenged by Cloudflare bot checking. Right from the get go, during the initial development I want to host the script […]
How it started I used to have my own handy Bursa Whale tool for me to have a high-level glance of all the insider and institution purchases and selling in the Bursa market. I have a script that will read the announcement from the Bursa […]
While the economy uncertainty has been looming around. It has puts a lot of pressure on the leadership team to increase productivity or cutting costs. The latter is the easy way to win the battle, but lose to the war. In true leadership fashion, we […]
Looking back at my own journey in tech, from hackathons fueled by caffeine and sheer determination to leading teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, one thing has become crystal clear: innovation isn’t just about having great ideas; it’s about creating an environment where those […]
There is a weird trend that is happning in the software development space on Reddit. Is called “Vibe Coding”. What is it about? Vibe coding, as coined by Andrej Karpathy, is essentially “fully giving in to the vibes” and forgetting that code even exists. Instead […]
Looking back at the 2024, the world of AI and assistance coding has evolve quite rapidly. We has evolve from working using chat prompts on code snippet directly from the platform website, to vs code plugin, and now upgrading to another level to be fully […]
This year, one pivotal moments that shaped my growth as an engineering manager is this. Shift from managing tasks to owning outcomes. It was also due to the shrinking in team size, that we have to make a tough call to merge team. Definitely not […]
As 2024 draws to a close and we inch closer to 2025, I find myself in a reflective mood, looking back at the year and pondering the concept of “valuable work,” especially in the context of software engineers. This topic has been on my mind […]
This is for all the app developers out there. For the sake of convenience AI and LLM will be used interchangeably. More accurate term, LLM is a subset of AI, whereby all the hype is in fact LLM. Therefore, I’ll be using this term instead […]
