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Every video I’ve made on learning to code, tech careers in Malaysia and building with AI, written up as a proper article. Press play if you like to listen, scroll if you’d rather read.
Latest · 31 Oct 2026
How I'd Become an AI Engineer in 2027, Starting From Zero
The 8-step roadmap I would follow to become a job-ready AI engineer from zero: software fundamentals first, then LLM APIs, tool calling, RAG, evals and real projects.
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AI skills · 12 min
How to Get Ahead in the Next 2 Years of AI
The riskiest place to be right now is good at using AI but clueless about how anything works. The concepts worth learning, and the two paths that will pay off.
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Getting started · 12 min
How I'd Learn to Code in 2027 If I Started From Zero
The exact roadmap I'd follow to learn to code from zero now that AI writes code: pick a goal not a language, build more than you watch, and use AI in three levels.
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Career · 15 min
The Future Belongs to Systems Thinkers in the AI Era
Why systems thinking is becoming the scarce career skill as AI makes tasks cheap, why it does not mean specialists are dead, and how to practise it starting today.
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AI engineering · 14 min
How to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in 2026
What a forward deployed engineer actually does, why AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring them, the three skill buckets you need, and how I would break in.
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Career · 10 min
Are Graduates Ready for the AI Era? An Honest Look
Universities say don't use AI. Employers expect you to. Why a degree alone is no longer enough, what being AI-ready really means, and what I'd do at 18 today.
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Career · 15 min
How to Choose Your Career in the AI Era (Skip the Passion Advice)
Follow your passion is outdated advice. Three better questions: what you're good at, what the market pays for, and what you can grow to enjoy.
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Malaysia · 14 min
Chinese Businesses Are Coming to Malaysia. Should We Worry?
Salons, workshops and restaurants from China are opening across KL. Why protecting Malaysian businesses is not the same as protecting Malaysia, and what we should do.
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Career · 14 min
Your Degree Is Not Enough Any More: Surviving the AI Job Market
The entry-level job is disappearing because AI does the simple work juniors used to learn on. Why there is no AI-proof career, and how to become more valuable instead.
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AI agents · 12 min
AI Agents Explained Like You're 10 (No Coding Needed)
What an AI agent actually is, explained through a new employee: the model is the brain, tools are the laptop, skills are the SOPs, and the harness is the manager.
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Career · 14 min
The Best Way to Start a Tech Career in the Post-AI World
AI/ML, AI engineering, software, cybersecurity, cloud, product or tech sales? How exposed each tech career is to AI, who it suits, and the path I'd pick from scratch.
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Internships · 8 min
How to Get an Internship With No Experience (From Someone Who Hires)
Applied to 50 internships and heard nothing? You were not rejected, nobody read it. What happens after you click Apply, and three ways to get seen instead.
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Career · 7 min
The Most Dangerous Job Offer You Can Get: The Well-Paid Dead End
A bigger salary abroad can be paid by the exchange rate, not your skills. Why well-paid dead ends trap Malaysians, from scam compounds to Singapore, and the test to use.
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Career · 10 min
Why Your First Job Choice Is Worth RM600,000 (The Three Payslips)
Full-time job, freelancing, part-time or gig work? Compare all three payslips: money you can spend, money you can't touch yet (EPF), and what you learn.
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Learn to code · 11 min
Is It Still Worth Learning to Code? A Tech Founder's Take
If AI writes the code, why learn it? What AI is genuinely good at, the four things it still gets wrong, why engineers still win, and six things to do to stand out.
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AI agents · 7 min
Harness, Loops, Evals and RAG: Build AI Agents Like You Hire
AI projects fail for the same reason new hires do: nobody onboarded them. Harness, RAG, loop engineering, tracing and evals explained as plain management.
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Malaysia · 8 min
Why Malaysian Graduates Still Can't Find Good Jobs
605,000 vacancies, 188,000 job seekers, and 10.2% youth unemployment. How both are true, why the leather chairs sit empty, and a three-step plan to qualify for them.
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Career · 6 min
Singapore Just Showed Us Which Jobs Are Dying (The Middle Trap)
Singapore's latest layoffs show tenure no longer protects you. Why the middle of the workforce is cracking, what that means for Malaysians, and a test to run tonight.
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AI agents · 10 min
Loop and Graph Engineering, Explained Simply
Loops and graphs for AI agents, explained with a real bug from my own product: why defining done matters more than the prompt, the four loop types, and when to use a graph.
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Money · 9 min
Why the Side Hustle Dream Leaves Malaysians With Nothing
Earning an extra RM1,500 a month? How much will still exist in 10 years? Flow vs tank, why hustle money disappears, and four moves to make it build real wealth.
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Graduates · 8 min
Your Degree Is Losing Value Every Year: Paper Inflation Explained
A Malaysian degree was a golden ticket in 1995. Now one in three graduates is underemployed. Why degrees depreciate, where the value moved, and three moves to stay scarce.
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Graduates · 7 min
Is a Malaysian Degree Still Worth It? The 92.5% Number Explained
Universities quote 92.5% graduate employability. 59.8% of young graduates are underemployed. Both are true. What the number hides and how to check a course before you sign.
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AI skills · 8 min
AI Made Everyone Fast. It Made Almost Nobody Good.
Developers felt faster with AI even when they were slower. Why output became nearly free, why judgement and accountability are now the gap, and how to build them.
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Founders · 9 min
I Paid a Team for 8 Months. I Rebuilt It Alone in 2 Days.
This is not an AI-replaced-my-developers story. It is about the clarity tax founders pay, the cheap solo stack I used, and the one-sentence test to pass before hiring.
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Learn to code · 12 min
Stop Telling Every Young Malaysian to Learn Coding
I run a coding school and I don't think everyone should become a developer. Who coding suits, who it doesn't, and why everyone should still understand technology and AI.
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Salary · 7 min
The Harsh Truth About Fresh Grad Salaries in Malaysia
1.6 million graduates in jobs that don't need a degree, 65% of fresh grads under RM3,000. How the graduate factory works, why salaries stay low, and three moves to escape.
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Future of work · 9 min
The Jobs AI Will Kill First in Malaysia (and the Ones It Can't Touch)
AI goes after routine work first, and Malaysia built much of its economy on routine shared-services jobs. Which roles are exposed, which are safer, and what to do.
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Malaysia · 9 min
Should You Move to Singapore? The Math Malaysians Don't Want to See
Two-thirds of Malaysians in Singapore earn S$1,500 to S$3,600. The honest maths on salaries, cost of living, the JB commute, work passes, and why skill comes before the move.
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Malaysia · 8 min
Why Malaysia Hosts the AI Revolution but Doesn't Get Rich From It
Billions in Johor data centres, a few thousand jobs. We are not in the AI economy, we are hosting it. What that means for Malaysia, and how individuals get inside it.
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Getting hired · 8 min
Why You Can't Get a Job in Malaysia (and What Actually Works)
Good CGPA, certificates, 200 applications, nothing back. Why most job-hunting advice is theatre, and the six steps the people who actually get hired follow instead.
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Career · 10 min
Why Smart Malaysians Are Stuck (and What Actually Works)
A degree, a PTPTN loan and RM2,800 a month in a job that never needed it. Why it is not your fault, why the bottom rung vanished, and what gets you out.
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Tech careers · 9 min
Stop Choosing Tech Careers Blindly: It's Tasks, Not Titles
AI does not think in job titles, it thinks in tasks. Which tech functions are shrinking in Malaysia and Singapore, which are growing, and how to move up a layer.
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Junior developers · 9 min
What Junior Developers Must Do to Survive the AI Era
Will AI take your job before you get one? The wrong question. What AI does well, where it breaks, the mistake students keep making, and five things to build now.
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Malaysia · 9 min
Why Big Tech Is Pouring RM185 Billion Into Malaysia
About RM185 billion of data centre investment in four years. Why Johor, the strain on power and water, and the risk of becoming Singapore's server room.
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Layoffs · 9 min
Just Been Laid Off in Malaysia? Here's Your Next Step
Over 28,000 Malaysians were laid off in early 2026. Why it is happening, the part that never makes the news, and why your next move should change the game, not repeat it.
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Learn to code · 34 min
From Tutorial Hell to Tech Jobs: The Shortcut That Actually Works
Eight months of tutorials, no income, full of self-doubt. Then one practice interview changed everything. The real shortcut from endless learning to paid work.
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Learn to code · 31 min
Why Most People Stay Stuck in Tutorial Hell (and a 90-Day Escape Plan)
The five reasons people stay stuck in tutorial hell, why AI can make it worse, the 30-day build challenge that broke the loop for me, and a 90-day plan you can follow.
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Learn to code · 35 min
How I Escaped Tutorial Hell (and AI Dependency), and How You Can Too
Six months of CS50, freeCodeCamp and YouTube, and I still could not build anything. How I broke out of tutorial hell, and five tactics that work even in the AI era.
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Portfolio · 8 min
5 Programming Projects That Get You Hired (and 1 That Wastes Your Time)
Skip the weather app. Five project types that prove you can solve problems, from automation scripts to something real people use, plus the portfolio mistake to avoid.
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Learn to code · 7 min
Stop Learning to Code the Wrong Way: 8 Rules Every Future Developer Needs
AI changed how you should learn to code. Eight rules I would follow from scratch: problem solving over syntax, build early, use AI, learn how the web works, and more.
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Portfolio · 6 min
No Degree? These 5 Projects Can Get You a Tech Job
Nobody has ever asked if I have a CS degree. Five projects that make employers and clients take you seriously: business automation, AI tools, niche dashboards, open source, SaaS.
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Portfolio · 8 min
Your Portfolio Projects Are Useless. Here's What Works Instead
A to-do app and a weather app at the top of your portfolio scream beginner. The four stages of a developer portfolio and how to grow it into proof employers believe.
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