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AI is revolutionizing education by enabling the rapid creation of personalized study tools, making traditional costly apps obsolete.
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The blog post discusses the concept of technical debt and how it affects creative energy in engineering work. It provides examples of technical debt in the form of a ballooning postgres database and an async app on MongoDB. The po...
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