Don't let AI rob you
From The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser
June 8, 2026 · 32 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of struggle and personal growth in engineering, emphasizing that relying too much on AI can diminish this experience.
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 can’t) robs us this feeling..
People in this episode
Host: Hussein Nasser
Topics covered
- AI
- engineering
- personal growth
- problem solving
- technology
Keywords
- AI
- engineering
- growth
- mistakes
- process
- struggle
- technology
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