Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪

Principal Product Manager, Student Experience & Search @Keystone_edu, Solo Projects:

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

Next time sales says the customer wants it, ask which customer first.

Full piece on Substack: https://t.co/DsMIVVbQCd

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

When a salesperson says a customer wants it, my first question is: which customer?

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

Sellers push back and feel their credibility is questioned. Drawing both goals side by side in front of them is what moves the conversation.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

What matters is relevant appearance. Shoppers who find you that way are actually looking for your solution.

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Marketplace example. A seller wants to always appear in the default listing. If they’re not relevant to the shopper, they appear as noise. Amazing visibility, no conversion.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

Sales and product define done differently.

Sales: did we build exactly what they asked for? Product: are we serving the true customer?

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

In B2B2C, both Bs want to serve the C. The middle B asks for something because it helps them solve their own customer’s problem. That problem is the root cause.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

Opus 5.5 made this whole video! In code! 🤯

Canvas animation, synthesized music, 570 frames through a headless browser. No editor! 🤩

Its own reviewer caught the mascot standing on the headline, so "Eight" read "Eiht" 😅

And yes, this is my website: https://t.co/Buf4ZvhK9o

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

@trq212 I feel like these help the AIs give much more nuanced answers compared to answers simply based on facts, so I can totally vouch for this! ☺️

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

@trq212 One great benefit that this exercise gave me is the idea that now, on top of the facts, my workspace carries another dimension. That dimension is the feelings, the context, the reasoning behind those feelings...

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

@trq212 I have done this, and I have done this way before, back in the Opus 4 days. I called it "the vault," and I basically stored all my emotions, what went through my head, and what I was feeling at different moments in my life...

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https://t.co/l1ICtsTvJz

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

I built a knowledge graph over my own notes and got fifteen stars. Someone built the same idea for code and got over 115,000. The code was never the problem. I let three trolls out-vote fifteen stars, and I read the wrong number as the truth.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

5/ “Honestly, if I had kept building on it, kept at it, probably that YC startup could have been me.”

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4/ The cliché is keep your head down and keep building. That is how you end up building for an audience of one. A hostile first response is the room’s mood that day, not a measurement of your work.

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3/ Then I watched my own idea get 117k stars in someone else’s hands. You steer by the signals you get. The troll signal arrived first and louder, so I let it overwrite the stars.

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2/ I did distribute. GitHub, a Substack, LinkedIn, Reddit. Then on Reddit people bashed me: “yet another white coder making a claim without knowing their shit.” I took my defeat and went quiet.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

1/ A code tool called Graphify has over 115,000 stars on GitHub. I built the same anti-RAG idea months earlier, one layer up, a knowledge graph over my own notes. Mine got fifteen.

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Shadman Rahman 🇧🇩🇸🇪 @MShadmanRahman]

@trq212 Given how Opus 5 has started overcomplicating things for me, I believe this is extremely well timed. Thanks a lot! This is going to be my default go-to from now on! 😅