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6 posts by Anas Shahid.
Engineering Best Practices
A solo founder came to us with a product built fast on Replit. It worked in every demo he ran. It had no real users on it yet, and it was not production ready. That gap i...
Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read
AI Integration
Most AI agents pay full chatbot prices for simple routing decisions. Here is why classification models, not chatbots, are actually built for that job.
Sep 24, 2026 · 5 min read
AI Integration
Hourly outsourcing firms are not slow to adopt AI. AI erodes the billable-hours model they run on, and clients who saw them as cheap labor are already moving on.
Aug 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Engineering Best Practices
Better prompts won't save you. Better handoffs will. Here's how senior engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers structure AI-assisted development before the AI touches an...
Jul 23, 2026 · 4 min read
Artificial Intelligence
You didn't choose one AI model. You got locked into one. Here's the dependency draining your build budget, and how to make any model a swappable, low-cost part.
Jul 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Technical Leadership
LinkedIn "fractional" profiles grew 5,400% in two years. Here's the data-driven guide to deciding whether a fractional CTO, a full-time hire, or a technical agency partne...
Apr 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Thirty minutes, a scoped approach, and a real number rather than a range. Whether the build starts from nothing, needs rescuing, or needs engineers inside an existing team, the first conversation looks the same.
