Ziyan Karmali

donating money to a charity got me giving a thumbs up to a wall

the dirty secret of "AI agents" in 2026: 90% of them are just a for-loop, a system prompt, and someone's hope. the 10% that work shipped narrow, owned the data layer, and stopped trying to be AGI.

the unsexy truth about building with AI in 2026: the moat isn't your model. it isn't your prompts. it isn't even your data. it's how fast you can ship, watch users break it, and ship again before the model providers eat your lunch. velocity > everything.

90% of the work isn't the model. it's giving it the right context, the right tools, and a tight enough leash that it doesn't go rogue on step 4. prompt engineers are out. context engineers are in.

What if the next time you reached for your phone to mindlessly scroll, it made you smarter instead? An app where each week you learn a new skill -compound interest, chess openings, Stoicism - in 5 short interactive lessons. Plus an "hours not scrolling" counter. Would you use this?

Half the world's small businesses run on WhatsApp groups full of photos that one person manually processes at midnight. Building a bot that handles the triage automatically. Any use cases in mind?

@harshablast let's build one. what do you have in mind?

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looking for my next idea inspiration. in my "fafo" stage. any suggestions?

@KaiXCreator i don't think i would be able to bring myself to how slow it would be

Be Honest: Can you CODE without AI...?

most "AI wrappers" fail because they solve a demo problem, not a workflow problem. the winning products don't replace a task - they delete an entire step from someone's day.

@jig_corp .txt file

Hey devs, what's your go-to database for a new project? 👇 PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Supabase SQLite Firebase PlanetScale Other

@ajeetprssingh buy a commercial property and put it on lease. flip it a year or two later and keep growing it x3

if you're given 1Cr, what're the 3 things you'll do?

@supabase does vi .zshrc count

What's the last line of code you wrote without AI?

finally building my second brain. am i too late?

it's a loop. just start shipping!

4. share a preview and get more feedback!

the new era of building. 1. post what you're building on reddit and ask for feature requests

most founders are trying to pick the "right" AI model. the ones shipping fast just wrap 3 of them behind one API call and let the output decide. stop evaluating. start stacking.