Life in Production

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The Cult of Complexity: From Internet Cafes to AI Chatbots

An architectural critique of herd mentality and local hubris. Tracking how the cultural stigma of 'ready-made' assets mutates from empty 90s internet cafes and stripped Mercedes sensors straight into insecure 'custom' codebases and modern AI chatbot loops.

  • Deep Dive · Tech Culture · Software Architecture · AI · Business Strategy · Engineering Culture
  • June 28, 2026  ·  12 min read
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Your AI Is a Fortune Teller

It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.

  • Quick Read · AI · Engineering · Mental Models · Bias
  • June 24, 2026  ·  6 min read
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Finding the Spark: From Breaking PCs to Building Developer Experience

How I went from breaking PCs as a kid to engineering Developer Experience, and the father who lit the spark but never got to see where it led.

  • Deep Dive · Career · Developer Experience · Origin Story · Engineering Culture
  • June 21, 2026  ·  12 min read
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Four Years and One Afternoon

My personal site sat almost frozen for four years. Changing a profile picture took three commits and two merges. Then I opened one conversation with Claude, and in an afternoon it became a different site.

  • Deep Dive · AI · Developer Experience · Claude · Web
  • June 18, 2026  ·  9 min read
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The Tri-Regional Operating System: Composing a Career Across the Levant, Europe, and the GCC

An engineering post-mortem on navigating three drastically different work cultures, and the ultimate personal hack for maintaining your sanity across conflicting cultural operating systems.

  • Deep Dive · Career · Work Culture · GCC · Levant · Europe · Remote Work · Software Architecture
  • June 14, 2026  ·  9 min read
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Debugging the Cultural Stack: Career, Parenting, and Monolithic Legacy Code

Navigating the technical and emotional optimization problem of modern dual-income parenting. This post explores the cultural friction between Western Europe's shared-load architecture and the traditional monolithic frameworks of the GCC, offering a systems engineering perspective on managing external judgment, professional identity, and family dynamics.

  • Deep Dive · Parenting · Career · Cultural Dynamics · GCC · Europe · Software Architecture · Remote Work
  • June 11, 2026  ·  6 min read
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