Ahmer Sultan

I help founders turn ideas into real products
Validate your SaaS faster, and know if an idea is worth building
18+ years of building products / Fractional CTO

[Ahmer Sultan @cyphorous]

I help founders turn ideas into real products, faster, using AI.

I’ve spent years building and leading software products.

If you need help getting something off the ground, feel free to reach out.

[Ahmer Sultan @cyphorous]

@ankurnagpal Nice. Also have Claude post it on X as well as it work on this. Might turn into product.

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@martin_valchev_ Working on client projects this week at:
https://t.co/L4QZEWjfSZ

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@jh3yy Haha

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@Shpigford This makes me wonder what would a combination of an open source notion alternative and an open source model on private cloud could do for a company?

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@Shpigford How soon?

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@scaling01 I guess we need those satellite solar powered orbital compute earlier than planned

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Claude Fable.

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@theo That’s sassy. Why do I feel like I’ve heard that tone before.

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@garyvee I’ll add learning from losing here as well. Otherwise losing would be worthless.

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@bcherny Nice. What about those of us who loves an IDE based workflow. Haha.

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@trq212 I am excited. At the same time when I look at the pricing my excitement takes a dent.

I believe in Moores Law then. I hope the hardware gets cheaper and we get more free and renewable power.

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It's Metallica kinda night...

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Just got to know about the term T-Shaped Technologist and it looks like I'd qualify for one. Little bit may be?

Always thought I am generalist, and tool agnostic.

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@thsottiaux It’s a great tool. But I’m not sure if you can use it all the time. The token spend is sometimes not justified. We got to optimise that as well at times.

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@ionleu https://t.co/L4QZEWjfSZ

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@clairevo @darraghcurran Pretty cool list.

A precursor to point 4 and 5 should be preparing context for your Agentic processes.

Context should be updatable via agents as well.

Context should include your business/domain knowledge, goals, values and things you’re looking to be impactful.

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@JonBuildsHQ Yes. Better to look and build an audience as well. It might help with future products.

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Codex is not just for writing code anymore.

OpenAI’s new use-case page points to something bigger:

AI agents are moving into everyday team workflows.

Not just engineering.

Real startup work.

→ Turning feedback into action items
→ Drafting PRDs from internal context
→ Cleaning messy data
→ Preparing meeting briefs
→ Reviewing budgets and forecasts
→ Testing real app flows

This matters because most startups do not only struggle with code.

They struggle with coordination.

Too many updates.
Too many docs.
Too many tiny tasks stuck between people and tools.

AI agents will not replace good judgment.
But they can remove the drag around it.

The next startup edge may be simple:

People make the decisions.
Agents handle the repeatable motion.

That is when AI stops being a demo and starts becoming part of how teams operate.

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@hasantoxr cool, I'd look to connect it to a locally deployed LLM as well.

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being capable definitely helps.

but being capable, also meant for me, to not trust AI's output. I review the code mostly, myself. But AI helped sped up the process.

I am concerned myself, primarily because, I like to learn from books, I have had formal education. These kids have learnt to use AI already. I am worried about the seem deep knowledge about something that they'll miss out on.

I am an optimist, so hoping, the wave will take us to a point, where kids growing up will learn using AI, rather than just ask AI to do everything for them. (Hoping!)