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Everyone Can Build Now. Almost Nobody Knows What To Build.
Why product thinking, not the PM role, is the real future of software.
Feb 21
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Shadman Rahman
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MVP is Dead!
And PMs Killed It.
Sep 7, 2025
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Shadman Rahman
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I built a cron job that gives me the feedback humans are too polite to say out loud
On Jantelagen, meeting transcripts, and what AI says that people won't
May 7
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Shadman Rahman
The Reframe Is the Job
Four times in April I almost shipped the wrong product
Apr 30
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Shadman Rahman
One Brain. Many Tools.
I scored my Claude Code setup at 9.6 out of 10. Then I tried to use it on my iPhone.
Apr 21
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Shadman Rahman
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We Shipped Stickers. Users Shrugged. Cricket Saved Us!
Sep 13, 2025
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Shadman Rahman
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Don’t Vectorize Everything: When Classic Search Beats LLMs
Sep 24, 2025
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Shadman Rahman
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The Experimentation Tax: Why Most A/B Testing Programs Fail Before They Start
Jan 11
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Shadman Rahman
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The PM Who Built Their Own AI Agent (And Why You Should Too)
Jan 15
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Shadman Rahman
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The Crucible: A PM's Answer to Wicked Problems
I built a council of 16 to argue with my own brain. Here is the whole thing, free!
Apr 20
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Shadman Rahman
I Redesigned the Gateway That Brought 35 Million People Online
In 2016, 72% of users hit our internet onboarding portal and bounced without clicking anything. Here's how we fixed it.
Apr 10
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Shadman Rahman
I Launched Two Open Source Tools in 48 Hours. Here’s What Actually Happened.
One got called “AI slop” on Reddit. The other got the ADPList CEO to comment. Both are live. Both are free. Here’s the unfiltered story.
Apr 1
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Shadman Rahman
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What Happens When You Give Non-Developers an AI Coding Agent and a 243-Bug Backlog
What happens when two developers independently build AI bug-fixing workflows on the same production codebase, then combine the best of both.
Mar 28
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Shadman Rahman
My Claude Code Setup Scored 9.6/10. Here’s the Architecture.
40 skills, 20 MCP servers, autonomous loops, and a PM operating system. The six levels of Claude Code mastery, from basic config to Karpathy-inspired…
Mar 24
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Shadman Rahman
I Built a Personal Knowledge Graph That Costs $3
How I turned 2,500 scattered notes into searchable intelligence with entity extraction, GraphRAG, and zero cloud services.
Mar 21
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Shadman Rahman
Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Context Architecture
Most people stuff everything into one file and wonder why Claude forgets what they told it. The fix is not more tokens. It is better structure.
Feb 26
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Shadman Rahman
The PM Who Built Their Own AI Agent (And Why You Should Too)
How I automated 3 hours of clicking into 30 seconds, and the framework for finding your own agentifiable work
Jan 15
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Shadman Rahman
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The Experimentation Tax: Why Most A/B Testing Programs Fail Before They Start
The hidden costs of underpowered tests, peeking problems, and organizational dysfunction that make most experimentation programs unreliable.
Jan 11
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Shadman Rahman
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