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              Joined October 2024
            
            
           🖼️ Manga Meets AI: OCR + Object Detection in 2025 Text extraction isn’t enough—smart pipelines now detect where and what to read. 🧠 YOLOv8 for speech bubble detection 📄 PaddleOCR for multilingual text extraction 🎨 OpenCV for preprocessing #OCR #YOLOv8 #MangaAI #PythonDev
          
          
                
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             📄 OCR in 2025: Beyond Text Extraction modern OCR isn’t just reading—it’s understanding. 🧠 AI models detect layout, context, and intent 🖼️ Vision transformers + YOLOv8 for region-aware detection 🔄 Seamless pipelines: preprocess → detect → extract → structure #OCR #PythonDev
          
          
                
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             🧠 Privacy-Preserving AI: Building Trust into Intelligent Systems In 2025, as AI becomes deeply embedded in software workflows, privacy-preserving techniques are no longer optional—they’re foundational. #PrivacyPreservingAI #SoftwareDevelopment #FederatedLearning
          
          
                
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             🧠 Edge-Native Development: Building Intelligence at the Edge In 2025, software isn’t just cloud-native—it’s edge-native. As latency, privacy, and bandwidth constraints push computation closer to users and devices, developers. #EdgeNative #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             🧠 Platform Observability: Making Developer Experience Measurable and Actionable In 2025, observability isn’t just about system health—it’s about developer experience (DevEx). Modern platforms now embed observability into every layer. #PlatformObservability #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             đź§  Service Meshes: The Invisible Backbone of Modern Microservices In 2025, as microservices and cloud-native architectures dominate, service meshes have become essential for managing communication, security, and observability #ServiceMesh #Microservices #CloudNative
          
          
                
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             đź§  Zero-Trust Architecture: Securing Software in a Borderless World In 2025, zero-trust architecture (ZTA) has become the default security model for modern software systems. With hybrid work, cloud-native apps. #ZeroTrust #DevSecOps #SoftwareDevelopment #SecurityArchitecture
          
          
                
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             Event-Driven Architecture: Building Reactive Systems for Real-Time Innovation In 2025, event-driven architecture (EDA) is becoming the backbone of modern software systems. Instead of relying on request-response models. #EventDrivenArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment #SystemDesign
          
          
                
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             Micro Frontends: Scaling UI Development Across Teams and Tech Stacks In 2025, frontend architecture is evolving toward micro frontends—a modular approach where independent teams build, deploy, and maintain isolated UI #MicroFrontends #FrontendArchitecture #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             đź§± Composable Frontends: Building UX Like Modular LEGO Blocks In 2025, frontend development is going modular. Composable frontends empower teams to assemble user interfaces from reusable, independent components. #ComposableFrontends #FrontendEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             AI-Augmented Incident Response: From Firefighting to Forecasting In 2025, incident response isn’t just reactive—it’s predictive and autonomous. With GenAI and real-time analytics embedded into observability and security stacks. #AIOps #IncidentResponse #SoftwareDevelopment #GenAI
          
          
                
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             🧠 AI-Driven API Development: Smarter Interfaces for Smarter Systems In 2025, APIs aren’t just endpoints—they’re intelligent interfaces. With GenAI embedded into API design, documentation, and consumption, developers. #AIDrivenAPIs #SoftwareDevelopment #GenAI #APIArchitecture
          
          
                
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             đź§  Open GenAI Models: The Rise of Customizable, Transparent Intelligence In 2025, the AI landscape is shifting from closed, proprietary models to open GenAI ecosystems. Developers and enterprises are embracing open-source LLMs. #OpenGenAI #LLM #SoftwareDevelopment #DevTools
          
          
                
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             🧪 Experiment-Driven Development: From A/B Testing to Continuous Innovation In 2025, the most innovative teams aren’t just shipping code—they’re shipping hypotheses. Experiment-driven development (EDD). #ExperimentDrivenDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             LLM-Powered Agents: The Rise of Autonomous Software Teams In 2025, Large Language Models (LLMs) are no longer just copilots—they’re becoming autonomous agents capable of planning, coding, testing, and deploying software. #LLMAgents #AutonomousSoftware #GenAI #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             đź§  GenAI Platform Engineering: The Future of Developer Velocity In 2025, platform engineering has evolved into something smarter: GenAI-powered Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). #GenAI #PlatformEngineering #DeveloperExperience #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             AI-Native Software Engineering: When Code Writes Itself In 2025, we’re witnessing the rise of AI native software engineering a paradigm where AI isn’t just a tool, but a co-developer embedded into every phase of the software lifecycle #AINative #SoftwareDevelopment #AIEngineering
          
          
                
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             🧠 Agentic AI: Autonomous Agents That Build, Learn, and Collaborate In 2025, Agentic AI is redefining software development. These autonomous agents don’t just execute tasks—they plan, reason, and collaborate with other agents . #AgenticAI #AutonomousAgents #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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             🧠 Swarm Intelligence in Software: Collective Behavior for Smarter Systems Inspired by nature—like ant colonies and bird flocks—swarm intelligence is emerging as a powerful paradigm in distributed software systems. #SwarmIntelligence #DistributedSystems #SoftwareDevelopment
          
          
                
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