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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.

Feb 13 • Daria Cupareanu

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!

Feb 11 • Apoorvaa Deshpande

From Pilots to Production: Why AI Stalls Before It Delivers

Why Feasibility Isn’t the Same as Readiness

Feb 9 • Maribeth Martorana

Women Rising: Why Women in Tech Writers Are Invisible on Substack

Why we built a tool to prove it and how we're going to change it.

Feb 8 • Code Like A Girl and Dinah

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

Feb 6 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Most Popular

I Didn’t Plan to Start a Movement. I Just Stopped Staying Quiet.

Jan 19 • Code Like A Girl and Dinah

From Analyst to ML Engineer Without Going Back to School

Sep 17, 2025 • Claudia Ng

Women Rising: Why Women in Tech Writers Are Invisible on Substack

Feb 8 • Code Like A Girl and Dinah

You are Already Technical Enough for AI

Jan 28 • Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD

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Recent posts

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.

Feb 4 • Mia Kiraki 🎭

When Empathy Becomes a Liability in Startup Funding

How warmth, founder archetypes, and investor heuristics distort who gets funded

Feb 2 • Sinéad Fitzgerald

Women Are Judged Twice as Hard for Using AI

And neurodivergent women pay the highest price

Jan 30 • Mariam Vossough

You are Already Technical Enough for AI

Why relational skills are becoming the new technical skill

Jan 28 • Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD

We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation

Progressive Regression: How Automation Turns Historical Bias into the Future

Jan 26 • AI.Mirror

The Science Was Never the Problem

What happened to STEM Toys before we noticed

Jan 23 • Authentic Learning Systems

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Code Like a Girl amplifies the voices of women and non-binary folks in tech. We’re a community sharing 2–3 stories a week about technical deep-dives, personal perspectives, and actionable insights that help shape a more inclusive future in tech.

Vibe Coding

Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer”

A gentle smackdown for the voice telling you you’re not technical enough.

Dec 15, 2025 • Aniko

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

Dec 10, 2025 • Elena | AI Product Leader and Dinah

From Vibe Coder to Shipping Real Apps

What 160 Hours in Cursor Actually Taught Me

Nov 21, 2025 • Ciara Wearen

How I Made AI My Unfair Career Advantage

How to Spot Opportunities Early and Turn Them Into Your Leverage

Nov 19, 2025 • Jenny Ouyang

Why Women Are the Real Vibe Coders Now

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The “Frankenstein” Known As Vibe Coding

Nov 14, 2025 • The Reluctant Graduate 👩🏾‍🎓

Vibecoding Tips: The Ultimate Collection

Go Beyond the Prototype: Everything You Need To Build and Launch AI Products

Nov 10, 2025 • Karen Spinner and Karo (Product with Attitude)

The Messy Reality of AI Products After Launch

Early traction isn’t about traffic. It’s about signals.

Nov 7, 2025 • Claudia Ng

The Magic of Side Quests

Why small, playful projects can reignite your creativity and transform your career

Oct 24, 2025 • Katrina Watson

Career Advice

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!

Feb 11 • Apoorvaa Deshpande

You are Already Technical Enough for AI

Why relational skills are becoming the new technical skill

Jan 28 • Alyssa Fu Ward, PhD

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.

Jan 16 • Shruti Mangawa

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

Jan 14 • Chelsey Sidler

The Dumbest Girl in the Room: Survival Tactics from DeepMind

How to be useful when everyone around you has a PhD and you’re just trying to find a meeting room.

Jan 5 • Louise Deason

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.

Dec 17, 2025 • Anna | How to Boss AI

Imposter Syndrome for Vibe Coders & The Myth of the “Real Developer”

A gentle smackdown for the voice telling you you’re not technical enough.

Dec 15, 2025 • Aniko

How I Got Into Tech With a Toddler and No Degree

My journey into tech, broken down into a path you can follow today.

Dec 12, 2025 • Maxine Meurer

Feminisim

When Empathy Becomes a Liability in Startup Funding

How warmth, founder archetypes, and investor heuristics distort who gets funded

Feb 2 • Sinéad Fitzgerald

Women Are Judged Twice as Hard for Using AI

And neurodivergent women pay the highest price

Jan 30 • Mariam Vossough

We Automated Discrimination and Called it Innovation

Progressive Regression: How Automation Turns Historical Bias into the Future

Jan 26 • AI.Mirror

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

Jan 19 • Code Like A Girl and Dinah

Why Every Founder Needs a Woman in the Ops Seat

How women bring operational intelligence, foresight, and better outcomes to startups

Jan 9 • Katie Barnes

The Day I Realized My Gender Was Costing Me Money

Choosing between authenticity and visibility in the age of AI

Jan 7 • The Reluctant Graduate 👩🏾‍🎓

Fascism Creeps In. Women Pay First. Here’s What Every Human Must Do.

The rollback of women’s rights was the canary in the coal mine. The question is, what will you do?

Oct 27, 2025 • Michelle Redfern

What Happens When You Vibe Code for Women in Tech

I turned a $15K idea into a working app for $0 and discovered a new way to build tools that support women’s careers in tech.

Oct 6, 2025 • Elena | AI Product Leader

Programming

How I Got Into Tech With a Toddler and No Degree

My journey into tech, broken down into a path you can follow today.

Dec 12, 2025 • Maxine Meurer

How Good Engineers Become Bad Leaders

The way we promote and insulate software engineers often sets them up to fail dramatically as leaders. Here’s how, and a better way forward.

Nov 28, 2025 • Christine Miao

From Vibe Coder to Shipping Real Apps

What 160 Hours in Cursor Actually Taught Me

Nov 21, 2025 • Ciara Wearen

Creating a Halloween Text Adventure in Python

Turn your Python code into a haunted tale where every choice changes the ending.

Oct 31, 2025 • Eliza

Product Development

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

Feb 6 • Elena | AI Product Leader

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.

Feb 4 • Mia Kiraki 🎭

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

Dec 10, 2025 • Elena | AI Product Leader and Dinah

You Can’t Build a Product Without Building for People

How design thinking and empathy drive successful product development

Nov 17, 2025 • Esha Pathak

Kids and Tech

The Science Was Never the Problem

What happened to STEM Toys before we noticed

Jan 23 • Authentic Learning Systems

Raising the Girls Who Will Fix What We Broke

STEM starts at the kitchen table, not the boardroom.

Jan 12 • Neela 🌶️

Breaking: Santa's Not the One Fixing the Toy Machine!

Representation starts in the stories we give our kids

Dec 8, 2025 • Dinah

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