Fast Food Learning: Why I Stopped Reading Documentation and Started Building

    I’ve spent exactly zero hours reading React documentation cover-to-cover. Zero hours on comprehensive Next.js courses. Zero hours memorizing Python’s standard library. Yet I’ve built multiple production applications, trained LLM models, and ran an EdTech startup that served thousands of students. How? Fast Food Learning. And before you judge me, hear me out. This isn’t about cutting corners. It’s about recognizing that in 2025, the way we learn needs to match the speed at which we need to build. ...

    November 21, 2025 · 9 min · Rafiul Alam

    To All Software Engineers: Learn Agentic Workflows or Fall Behind

    To all software engineers: if you’re not learning agentic workflows, you’re falling behind fast! Not learning agentic workflows in 2025 as a software engineer is like refusing to learn Git in 2010. The landscape is shifting rapidly, and those who adapt will thrive while others struggle to keep up. Agentic workflows aren’t just a trend—they’re becoming the new standard for efficient software development. Exciting Agentic Frameworks and Tools You Should Explore Here are some cutting-edge tools that are revolutionizing how we write code: ...

    June 5, 2025 · 2 min · Rafiul Alam

    The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Incompetent People Think They're Experts

    I once watched a junior developer with three months of React experience tell a senior architect with 15 years of experience that “Redux is dead and anyone still using it doesn’t understand modern development.” The senior architect smiled politely and continued the code review. That junior developer was me. And I was living proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. If you’ve ever wondered why the least knowledgeable people often have the strongest opinions, or why beginners sometimes appear more confident than experts, you’re about to understand one of the most fascinating cognitive biases in psychology. ...

    January 15, 2024 · 18 min · Rafiul Alam