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Hi, I'm Mohammed Sweelam, a software engineer writing about distributed systems, architecture, programming languages, and the human side of engineering.

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The Million-Dollar AI Mistake

While designing a complex installment module with multiple variables, an engineer had a 'bright' idea: 'Instead of building this ourselves, let's just use AI....

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Lightweight Evaluation for New Solutions (LENS)

The history of scalable systems architecture mirrors the evolution of the digital era itself, a continuous pursuit of efficiency, resilience, and adaptability....

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The Cognitive Load Trap

In software industry, they issues that may break systems are not only technical issues, sometimes the primary issue is organizational. System sustainability...

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