Walid Abou Ali's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Years ago, I sat through a 2-hour live coding interview with a frontend candidate. The task? Take a blocky wireframe and a products API, and build a working React product listing page with a search bar. Live. With me watching their every move. About halfway through, they had the UI ready but completely skipped the…

Here we go again. The post that will piss people off, but the truth needs to be said. A few days ago, I was helping a friend to build a custom WhatsApp bot without the business API. I wrote the core logic in a fresh Node.js project, and it worked perfectly. I handed my working code to an AI, gave it my friend’s pr…

Yesterday, I used AI to build a new feature. I gave it a full-page prompt explaining every detail. I asked it to write the unit tests. I asked it to manually test the endpoints and the DB records too. I put it in auto mode (in local env, of course). 10 minutes later: "all done." I tested. Everything worked. Test…

Here we go again. The post that will piss people off, but the truth needs to be said. A few days ago, I was helping a friend to build a custom WhatsApp bot without the business API. I wrote the core logic in a fresh Node.js project, and it worked perfectly. I handed my working code to an AI, gave it my friend’s pr…

Years ago, I sat through a 2-hour live coding interview with a frontend candidate. The task? Take a blocky wireframe and a products API, and build a working React product listing page with a search bar. Live. With me watching their every move. About halfway through, they had the UI ready but completely skipped the…

I believe AI code should still be reviewed by human engineers, but many engineers disagree with me. The common pattern? Almost all of them work at big tech companies. This is the unspoken divide in the AI world: The massive financial gap between Enterprise token budgets and boot-strapped reality. When Boris Cherny…