If you do nothing or if you do anything, people will criticize you, so do something worth being criticized for.

Fun fact 😃

- You can't have less responsibility from this section of your life.
- You can't work much harder than what you can do now.
- You mightn't have free time like this part of your life ever again.
- You can't get this energy, opportunity, and every possible luck after this part of your life.


Take care of your twenties well; everything wants to take it from you.

If you have nothing to lose, then you have nothing to lose!

Is there anyone who is going to lose something to give it all for your dream? Do you have a family that is reliant on you? Do you have a rent to pay? Do you have children to feed? What do you have to lose to work like crazy for 8 hours nonstop?

Confidence is not knowing that everybody loves or respects you; it's knowing you will be okay if they don't.

Sebahal kheyr☀️

summer is coming and Internships might be the best to improve your skillset.

Ablaze Labs is hiring

We are excited to offer paid internship opportunities for you to gain hands-on experience and develop their professional skills.
This is a 3-month fixed-term internship designed to provide practical exposure, structured learning, and valuable real-world experience in a dynamic work environment.

Open Internship Positions

- Project Management Intern
- UI/UX Design Intern
- QA Engineer Intern
- Product Owner Intern
- Frontend Engineering Intern
- Backend Engineering Intern
- Graphic Design Intern
- Marketing Executive Intern
- Copywriter Intern
- Sales Intern
- HR Intern

We are looking for enthusiastic candidates who are eager to learn, contribute, and grow in a fast-paced professional setting.

Location: Bole Dembel, Addis Ababa
Type: On-site Internship

Apply by using the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnM3f-HJcEruTHDbIGad4c-J6Q1MXRrch-3qPO6mcd7qtzhA/viewform

@abduinTheloop

Is there an ai therapist?

Summer is near and i see a lot of people looking for internships and honestly speaking interning at 80% of most Ethiopian companies is a waste of time. Unless you’re interning at school or some good companies like Mereb, Chapa, Addis Software etc… you’re wasting that precious 3 months you could’ve spent grinding building and gaining some actual work experience. Pick a really hard project, do the entire Software development life cycle on that shit, Post the living hell about it. Dont be building some portfolio for 3 months or an E-commerce site that doesnt even work. Build something that could be a product, something that actually solves something for you.

Build Post Repeat, and i assure u after that 3 months u can get an actual job paying good money

The more you plan your day and become productive, the longer it becomes -- I think this is called blessing/berekah.

Do you guys use Facebook? Do you even have the app?

I think I am among the last Gen Zs obsessed with Facebook. There are cool ideas and peoples there—I use Facebook most after Telegram, tbh.

This man reads my mind

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Finally, the final seasons are here, and I am hyper-curious to discover, read, and research everything in this world except my course materials 😓

So after waiting so long for my 110th subscriber... finally she is here, and I was thinking what I should reward her with... but as I am in my absolute broke era, I wanna promote her channel. So please give her a follow and show her love🫶


https://t.me/my_dev_diary

I’ve always wondered what truly differentiates senior engineers from vibe coders — or high-quality engineering from AI-generated code.

And I think I finally found a somewhat satisfying answer.

Senior engineers had to cook the meal themselves for years before the “AI chef” arrived
So they know exactly what the system is supposed to taste like. They immediately notice when something feels off.


But this generation may not even get the chance to fully experience building everything manually once, because the environment itself is changing too fast.
What senior engineers really built over time is something deeper which is system thinking.
And honestly, they paid a lot to gain that skill.


System thinking is understanding:
👉what you’re building
👉how it works
👉why it works
👉how different parts integrate
👉what breaks if one piece is removed
👉It’s when you can mentally visualize the entire flow of the system — even with your eyes closed.


As juniors, I think these are the kinds of questions we should learn to answer:
👉Where does the state live?
👉Where does feedback live?
👉What breaks if I delete this?
👉How are errors handled?
👉How does the logic actually operate?
👉How do architecture, services, and components connect?
👉How can problem-solving skills (like LeetCode thinking) be applied to real systems?

If you can answer those questions in your head without touching the code, then vibe coding actually becomes powerful.

And another huge advantage this generation has is this:
we can specialize deeply in one area while still being capable across many others using AI.

For example, a backend-focused engineer can now create frontend interfaces with AI assistance. That creates more opportunity to move faster while still mastering a core specialty.

So maybe the future is not just “learning how to code.”
It’s learning how to think like a real engineer.
👉To build systems.
👉To reason clearly.
👉To understand deeply.

That engineering spirit will definitely matter more than memorizing syntax.
A few practices I think are important:

• Design before coding — even with just paper and pencil. Force your brain to visualize systems.
• Write the what and the why before AI writes the how.
• Try the deletion test — remove a component and observe what breaks.
• Don’t blindly accept AI-generated code. Read it. Question it. Understand it.

Because at the end of the day, AI can generate code…
but it still takes an engineer to build systems.

I am falling in love with Claude... Why did no one stop me when I was using ChatGPT before? 🤦🏽‍♀️