Code Like A Girl

How I Went From Chasing AI Tools to Building AI Systems How to manage FOMO when AI makes everything feel possible, and build systems that bring the results you need.

How I Went From Chasing AI Tools to Building AI Systems
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12 Lessons from A Decade in Tech My journey from "one of the guys" to "one of the girls" to building a life that honors all of me!

12 Lessons from A Decade in Tech
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From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers Why Feasibility Isn’t the Same as Readiness

From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers
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2025 Was the Year of AI Builders. Why Did So Many Teams Fail to Ship? What 2025 revealed about innovation theater, broken incentives, and stalled AI initiatives

2025 Was the Year of AI Builders. Why Did So Many Teams Fail to Ship?
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How to build a proprietary content engine using your holiday memories Using AI to translate “non‑work” memories into proprietary strategy your competitors can’t reverse‑engineer.

How to Build a Proprietary Content Engine Using Your Holiday Memories
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You are Already Technical Enough for AI Why relational skills are becoming the new technical skill

You are Already Technical Enough for AI
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We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation Progressive Regression: How Automation Turns Historical Bias into the Future

We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation
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The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why ‘Talking to AI’ Isn’t Actually Communication How conversational design disguises constraint optimisation and how linguistics explains what's really happening

The Prompt Engineering Myth: Why ‘Talking to AI’ Isn’t Actually Communication
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I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet. Ten years of Code Like a Girl and what happens when women stop staying quiet together

I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet.
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Forget Building a Second Brain. I Just Wanted My First One Back. Chemo saved my life, but it also stole my spark. Here’s how I reclaimed it.

Forget Building a Second Brain. I Just Wanted My First One Back.
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How I Became a Woman in Tech (Without Realizing It) Why my path didn’t look like tech and why that’s exactly the point

How I Became a Woman in Tech (Without Realizing It)
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Raising the Girls Who Will Fix What We Broke STEM starts at the kitchen table, not the boardroom.

Curiosity doesn’t disappear in girls — it gets trained out of them.
If we care about women in tech, we need to start where it actually begins: at home, in classrooms, and in everyday moments that shape confidence.
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Why Every Founder Needs a Woman in the Ops Seat How women bring operational intelligence, foresight, and better outcomes to startups

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The Day I Realized My Gender Was Costing Me Money Choosing between authenticity and visibility in the age of AI

Same idea.
Same platform.
Different gender.

His post: 4,000 likes.
Hers: 47 views.

That’s when she realized her gender was costing her money.

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The First Time I Didn’t Perform For years, I was a Porsche surrounded by Hondas. I made myself smaller, slower, more digestible. Then I started a company and had to stop performing.

@annalevitt.bsky.social writes about leaving a role she was good at and discovering who she was without the title or the performance.

This is a grounded, honest piece about identity, grief, and building from zero when the scripts disappear.

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Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer” A gentle smackdown for the voice telling you you’re not technical enough.

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How I Got Into Tech With a Toddler and No Degree My journey into tech, broken down into a path you can follow today.

Maxine Meurer learned to code with a toddler asleep beside her.
No degree. No shortcuts. Just consistency and proof of skill.

Eleven months later, she was working full-time in DevOps.
This piece shares the real timeline, the rejections, and the roadmap that worked.

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Thanks, Karen!!!

How one builder rallied thirty creators, survived an AI meltdown, and shipped anyway. A Conversation with Elena Calvillo about what it took to build the AI Advent Calendar

Five days before launch, an AI tool rewrote the work of 30 creators in Elena Calvillo’s AI Advent Calendar. Total meltdown. She still shipped.

We interviewed Elena for Code Like a Girl about her experience.
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The Magic of Making Mrs. Claus an Engineer Representation starts in the stories we give our kids

Breaking: Santa is not the one fixing the toy machine.

It is Mrs Claus. And that one sentence in a letter sparked Dinah's kid’s first STEM dream.

New story is up, with a holiday STEM gift list for kids who need to see women building the magic.

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Age Prediction & Your Child’s Safety in the Age of AI New digital gatekeeping is promising to keep your child safe. We need to keep learning, asking questions, and advocating for more.

AI is now “guessing” kids’ ages by scanning their chats, clicks, and even their selfies.

If you care about online safety, AI ethics, or just want to understand what’s happening behind the scenes, give this one a read. @itscourtneyhart.bsky.social

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Choosing the Right Team as a Woman in Tech The teams you join can build you up—or break you down. Here’s why choosing wisely matters.

We don’t talk enough about how much your team shapes your career in tech.
Not the brand name. Not the stack.
The people.

@stefsdevnotes.bsky.social story is a powerful reminder of why choosing the right environment matters, especially for women in tech.
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AI-When it looks, it inherits; when it writes, it hesitates. Beyond the Algorithm

Three AI tools.
One simple prompt.
Zero images her son could recognise as home.

This story isn’t just about bias in training data, it’s about erasure, power, and who gets to be “real” in AI.

Read it, then run the experiment where you live.
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So You Achieved Everything You Wanted. Now What? A Love Letter to Career Changes and Wisdom

What if the career your 10-year-old self dreamed of
…isn’t the life your grown-up self actually wants?

Neela’s new story is a gut-check on evolving dreams, shifting identities, and redefining success, especially for women in tech.
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How I Made AI My Unfair Career Advantage How to Spot Opportunities Early and Turn Them Into Your Leverage

@jenny-ouyang.bsky.social used AI to turn friction points into career power moves.

Her story’s up on Code Like a Girl.
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Why Women Are the Real Vibe Coders Now How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The “Frankenstein” Known As Vibe Coding

Tech bros: “vibe coding is dead.”
Women: still building.
Christine Olukere's piece explains it perfectly.
Vibe coding didn’t die, the hype did.
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Vibecoding Tips: The Ultimate Collection Go Beyond the Prototype: Everything You Need To Build and Launch AI Products

Are you a vibecoder?

If so, you aren’t going to want to miss this detailed guide filled with everything you need to build and launch AI Products.

It’s written by the vibecoding experts @productsattitude.bsky.social and Karen Spinner.

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Our pleasure!

The Messy Reality of AI Products After Launch Early traction isn’t about traffic. It’s about signals.

It worked perfectly on her laptop.
Then real users showed up. 😅

Memory leaks. Slow responses. Voice pitch complaints.
Every bug became a lesson.

@ds-claudia.bsky.social gives us all the details in her latest post.

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Creating a Halloween Text Adventure in Python Turn your Python code into a haunted tale where every choice changes the ending.

Have a little fun this Halloween and create a spooky text adventure in Python!

Eliza has a full guide for you!

Happy Halloween!

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