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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser

Jun 8, 202600:31:53Technology

A discussion about why many engineers still love the struggle, the mistakes, and the process of figuring things out themselves. This is how we grow and get better and stronger. Letting AI do everything (even though it ca...

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