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The ONE Skill I'm Choosing Over LeetCode Grinding in 2025

Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour on December 17, 2025

It’s late 2025. and if your LinkedIn feed is anything like mine, it’s a chaotic mix of two things: People panicking that AI agents are about to re...
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David Thomas

Carry on good luck :)

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Thank you!

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Rakib Hasan

This year I will focus more on

  • Growth as an engineer
  • Brushing up my senior level skills
  • Building and launching own startup
  • Sharing my journey with peers
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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Goodluck Rakib! 😊

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Bonnie

Good write up, Maame!

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Thank you, Bonnie 😊.

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Warren Jitsing

Try out my Sovereign Software Factory series that walks you through all these integration problems.

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Will look into that, thanks a bunch!😊

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Warren Jitsing

Have fun! Inspired by my aversion to LeetCode

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Mayank Sati

These are the correct steps to follow after griding some DSA.

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

🔥

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unhappygirl

Very meaningful. System design is very hard to do in my opinion, and determines the difference between a good software and great software. Another useful method I try to do is to look from the user point of view, or try to utilize my software as if I am someone who just installed it from their favourite package manager :) great read!

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

I love that approach! Thinking about the package manager experience is such a grounded way to look at system design. It forces you to think about dependencies, environment variables, and initial configuration basically the entire onboarding flow of your code.

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Tech Croc

Are you sure?

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Will try it for probably 6 months, will write up an update on it if it was successful/ not 😊