The Next Coding Interface is a Canvas
IDE → Terminal → Canvas I've been experimenting this week with AI-native Figma alternatives like pencil.dev and paper.design. You describe the product, and t...
Abdellatif Abdelfattah
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Hackable Software
I was using one of my favorite apps the other day (Tarteel) that I helped write, it was missing a feature I wanted. Instead of messaging the developers, I en...
Always Do a Work Trial
I've hired many people over the past eight years, had my share of bad matches¹. I evolved my process quite a bit. A core part of what I do today is doing a "...
Hacker News Front Page: what 26 hours of traffic got us
How our RAG blog post accidentally went viral on Hacker News and what 26 hours on the front page taught us.
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
My Next Chapter
Reflecting on building an AI search engine for over 15,000 classical Islamic texts and what comes next.