Being ghosted by my recruiter felt like a romantic break up. Join me in this adventure as I recount the tale and the struggles that I went through.

This podcast is not sponsored by NordVPN. Instead, I want you to differentiate marketing from the reality of using a VPN. They are useful for many cases, but they are not a tool that creates complete anonymity online.

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Those are the words we use whenever a person finds himself complaining about a job. Just get another job. It's almost always bad advice.

Let's dive into the why.

As soon as you try to learn something interesting and the process starts to become hard, you feel bored. That's when we pull out our phones, watch youtube videos, scroll on tiktok, or do anything that will produce more dopamine then learning.

I'm here to tell you that you are supposed to feel bored, and you have to power through it. Boredom is the gatekeeper that filter people who aren't worthy of the knowledge on the other side.

Before getting started on writing on your own blog, your own platform, we tend to have such an intimidating high bar. We may have great ideas, but wonder "What if I am wrong?"

I'm here to tell you that this is the wrong attitude. Write it down, and learn to structure it right here in public.

I used to pay $3 for my 5-mile daily commute. Today, the exact same ride cost $24 dollars. That's what subsidy looks like when investors want their money back.

Now, we are basically getting all these AI services for free. That's the result of investor subsidy. You can guess what happens next.

Every year, the same question is asked. Is Blogging dead? We could go around and research the subject, but instead I decided to test my own theory.

For the year of 2025, I've blogged every other day, writing a total of 201 articles. The result is I saw a huge growth in both my RSS readership and daily traffic. I've been featured in the top 10 blog of the year on HackerNews.

Let's get into the details.

This is it. We leave 2025 behind and embrace the new Year.

Let's look back at what we've accomplished. I'm looking forward to what comes next.

LLM encourages everyone to take a shortcut. The Software Architect uses LLM to generate specs, introducing hallucinations. The developer uses LLM the generate the code, introducing errors. The review uses LLM to review the code, also propagating the issue. When the code fails in the hand of real users, nobody knows how to fix it. Nobody bothered to learn what the code was actually supposed to do.

Join me in this episode as we tackle the problem and figure out a solution for the developer workflow.