Director of Engineering. Building AI products + AI-native engineering teams. Talks SDLC, architecture, and dev craft. Find your next read using Bookwise.

Joined October 2011
The industry is over-indexing on "AI generalists" and killing specialists Breadth without depth is just speed-running production pain. I had to write my thoughts down xitter.cf/hashtagcoder/status/20… Code is cheap, spend your time on building experience
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The greatest myth across the entire industry right now is that after this feature we will start making good technical decisions
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“Hire on character train on skill” is such good advice...
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2026: work so hard that people think AI did it 2020:
Colleague: “your code is out of this world!” Me: “you think it’s that good?!” Colleague: “no it’s just totally unreadable”
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You can't vibe code empathy! Empathize with your user and you’ll build the right thing Empathize with your team and you’ll make the right decisions Empathize with your project and you’ll solve the right problems
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most people are more worried about being copied than making something worth copying
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The problem with AI is that we end up trying to build too much too fast Your real competitive advantage is restraint
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leet code interviews for a claude code job
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if AI is taking dev jobs but a big AI market is devs whats the plan?
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Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering retweeted
I have been coming back to this advice so much recently “The questions you ask yourself determine your future; they guide your focus, which guides your actions and ultimately your results.” — @geoffwoods , The AI-Driven Leader via Bookwise bkws.app/s/DB8n6f
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I have been coming back to this advice so much recently “The questions you ask yourself determine your future; they guide your focus, which guides your actions and ultimately your results.” — @geoffwoods , The AI-Driven Leader via Bookwise bkws.app/s/DB8n6f
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Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering retweeted
The fastest way to waste your time is to argue with a stranger on the internet.
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I dont understand why managers would think lines of code is a useful metric. I find tracking rollback rate and escaped defects to be way more meaningful.
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I wonder if peoples threshold has increased because of AI ..? “True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.” — @Markmanson , The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck via Bookwise bkws.app/s/EruYWT
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Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering retweeted
It's remarkable how often the real problem is not what happened, but how it was communicated.
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Action doesn’t require readiness, it creates it.
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Purposely keeping typos in your tweets to prove youre human is the new meta
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Sha Alibhai | Director of Engineering retweeted
I find it hilarious that a year ago we were in a “no code revolution” and now we’re in a “as much code as agentically possible” revolution
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This resonates so much in a world of multi tasking with AI “When people have conflicting priorities or unclear, meaningless, or arbitrarily shifting goals, they become frustrated, cynical, and demotivated.” — @johndoerr, Measure What Matter via Bookwise bkws.app/s/iOnKt1
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The biggest value add from AI is when you prompted it to interview you rather than just telling it what you want. Constantly challenging, my assumptions has leveled me up so fast
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