Product

#36 Looking ahead: AI in 2026

Trends I'm noticing and excited about in 2026

Jan 9 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#35 Business vs Promotion-driven development

If promotion depends on complexity, guess what teams will ship?

Dec 19, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#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 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#31 Documenting Software Architecture using C4 Model

Software architecture is a dynamic system that evolves over time.

Apr 25, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#30 Six Traits That Make a Great Founding Engineer

Traits That I Find Most Important In a Founding Engineer

Apr 11, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#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 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#26 When to Pay Down Tech Debt

Handling technical debt is a recurring subject among software engineering teams.

Mar 14, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#20 Time To Use Ollama

By now you’ve heard last week’s news about the AI startup DeepSeek releasing its open-source model DeepSeek-R1, which outperforms OpenAI’s ChatGPT-o1…

Jan 31, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#19 How To Write Better Developer Docs

People who’ve worked with me before know that I’m a documentation enthusiast.

Jan 24, 2025 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#13 What Three Years At Faculty Taught Me About Intrapreneurship

Back in 2021, I was working at Dell Technologies as part of a newly established team focused on researching and developing AI solutions.

Nov 22, 2024 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#6 Developing Product Thinking

A customer-centric approach to driving tech innovations

Oct 4, 2024 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

#4 Fall in Love with The Problem, not The Tech

Back in June 2024, I attended a talk at London Tech Week by Steve Blank, author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. He discussed the future of…

Sep 20, 2024 • Shehab Abdel-Salam

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