Ali Sadat

Not every AI problem needs an LLM.

With all the attention on generative AI, it is easy to forget that classical machine learning is still the better tool for many jobs. Need to summarize a customer interaction, interpret a question, or generate an explanation? Use an LLM.

A good friend recently pointed me to Tony Fadell’s thoughts on product management.

So much of it resonates and reaffirms thinking I've held for a while. This point... "There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained, the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your…

I've sat in enough pricing and growth meetings to recognize the pattern.

The first product has found product-market fit. The GTM engine is working. The company is hunting for the next leg of growth. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁? It sounds like the obvious move. Build another SKU. Sell it to the installed base. Push…

I see a lot of posts from people celebrating that they built a CRM, ERP, or another business application over a weekend

That's fantastic. What's interesting is that many of these posts come from people without a software engineering background. They're amazed that they described an idea, AI generated the code, and they ended up with a working application.