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#37 Making better decisions as an engineer
Consequence vs reversibility in decision-making
Feb 6
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#36 Looking ahead: AI in 2026
Trends I'm noticing and excited about in 2026
Jan 9
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#35 Business vs Promotion-driven development
If promotion depends on complexity, guess what teams will ship?
Dec 19, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#34 How I use LLMs as an engineer
👋 Welcome back to the PE newsletter!
Dec 5, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#33 Why You Should Read More Engineering Blogs
One of the early mistakes I made in my career was not reading engineering blogs.
May 9, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#32 How to Write Great Feedback
Most resources online provide a generic advice on writing feedback, like ‘be kind’ or ‘make it useful’.
May 2, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#31 Documenting Software Architecture using C4 Model
Software architecture is a dynamic system that evolves over time.
Apr 25, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#30 Six Traits That Make a Great Founding Engineer
Traits That I Find Most Important In a Founding Engineer
Apr 11, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#29 How to Deliver a Backlog Refinement Session
Most engineering teams use Scrum or Kanban to track their work.
Apr 4, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#28 How Proactive Engineers Operate in Solo, Pair, and Mob Programming
What are they, and when should you use each?
Mar 28, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#27 Why Everyone Is Talking About Vibe Coding
Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, introduced a new term called vibe coding to describe how developers can guide an LLM to solve a problem by…
Mar 21, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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#26 When to Pay Down Tech Debt
Handling technical debt is a recurring subject among software engineering teams.
Mar 14, 2025
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Shehab Abdel-Salam
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