Adeel Ahmed

Full of myself but still hungry

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We replaced our project management tool, our QA contractor, and half our documentation process with one custom internal agent. It cost us zero headcount and a weekend to build.

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AI didn't kill the IT services business. It killed the IT services business that competed on labor cost. If you sold hours, you're in trouble. If you sell outcomes, you're flying.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

Every AI-driven company I respect has the same hidden moat: a deep library of internal evals nobody outside the company will ever see. The prompts are the easy part.

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Watching a tier-3 support ticket get triaged, drafted, and resolved by an agent in 90 seconds is the kind of demo that makes investors lean forward. Then you tell them it cost you three cents.

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The bottleneck in our shop used to be senior engineer review time. Now it's the meeting we have to schedule to decide which AI-generated approach is the right one.

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Monthly retainers used to mean a guaranteed pool of hours. Now they mean a guaranteed pool of outcomes. Most IT agencies aren't ready for that conversation with clients.

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AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. The person in the loop now mostly needs to be the one who knows what shouldn't have been built at all.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

The skill I'm hiring for now isn't coding fluency. It's the taste to know when an AI-generated solution is wrong before it ships to a client.

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AI doesn't get tired at 4pm on a Friday. That's where it's actually winning, not in the showcase tasks everyone keeps posting about.

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Three years ago I'd quote 80 hours for a custom dashboard build. Now it's 8 hours and the client gets a better version. Pricing models in IT haven't caught up to this yet.

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Spent a decade learning to write clean code. Now spending this year learning to write clean specs. Same skill, different artifact.

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Found a four-year-old TODO comment in production today. We're calling it vintage now.

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The right tool used wrong is still wrong. The wrong tool used well will get you 80% of the way there.

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Your stack doesn't need to be impressive. It needs to be boring enough to sleep at night.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

Your stack doesn't need to be impressive. It needs to be boring enough to sleep at night.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

If your README requires a Loom video to follow, your README needs a rewrite.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

Your stack doesn't need to be impressive. It needs to be boring enough to sleep at night.

[Adeel Ahmed @ItIsAdeel]

Underrated skill: knowing when 'good enough' is actually good enough.