Kay Ashaolu

I teach engineers to think in systems. UC Berkeley lecturer. Free 5-day courses: plan-first workflow systemthinkinglab.ai/five-day and 7 building blocks systemthinkinglab.ai/building-blocks-five-day

SF Bay Area Joined on Sep 13, 2024 kay@systemthinkinglab.ai https://systemthinkinglab.ai/five-day

Education

Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley

Work

Founder of Systems Thinking Lab. Lecturer at UC Berkeley.

Kay Ashaolu

Nov 1

Can you explain what you shipped?

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Kay Ashaolu

Oct 31

What an Anthropic hiring manager stopped asking candidates to do

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Kay Ashaolu

Oct 30

Seniors give AI small pieces they can review

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1 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 29

How you use AI decides what you remember

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1 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 28

The most valuable seat is the one that breaks it

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Kay Ashaolu

Oct 27

Faster output is not the same as delivery

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1 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 26

If the user is waiting, it is not a worker

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1 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 25

You cannot review what you never struggled with

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1 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 25

A short insight every day, starting Sunday

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2 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 18

Decide where the error lands

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 11

The bug is in the handshake

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Oct 4

The decision you should not hand to an AI

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 27

Course 0 is open: ask the AI what it thinks first

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 27

Review is a rep, not a gate

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 20

Three ways to undercharge a customer

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 13

Why your AI agent keeps starting from zero

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 6

The seat that sold twice

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5 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Aug 30

Your next song was already chosen

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Aug 23

All four courses are finished. Here's what's next.

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Aug 16

The most boring service in the stack

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Aug 9

The two opposite ways AI gets your system wrong

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4 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Aug 2

What an AI Engineer job actually tests

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Kay Ashaolu

Jul 26

The junior engineer is not disappearing

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Kay Ashaolu

Jul 19

When "saved" does not mean saved

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4 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jul 12

The Junior Engineer Is Not Disappearing. The Way We Train One Is.

#ai #career #beginners #learning

10 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jul 12

Own the roadmap, not the backlog

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jul 5

The 5 questions junior engineers keep asking about AI

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jun 30

The one rep you can't outsource

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jun 21

The role AI actually eliminates

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4 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jun 21

Output is cheap. Judgment is the job.

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3 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Jun 20

The block AI always forgets

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Kay Ashaolu

Jun 19

Should you build it?

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Kay Ashaolu

Jun 18

The lens behind every block

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4 min read

Kay Ashaolu

Sep 13 '24

System Design at Kekoexchange

#systemdesign #developer #softwareengineering #interview

2 min read

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