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Yoosuf Mohamed

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I build AI systems that businesses really depend on.

I'm Yoosuf Mohamed — systems architect and AI engineer in Colombo. I help startups and enterprises ship LLM/RAG products, AI automation, and full-stack platforms that go beyond the demo and scale reliably.

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  • How to Enjoy Programming in the LLM Era

    Why coding feels less fun since AI assistants arrived, what METR's productivity trial and Stack Overflow's trust data actually show, and the personal habits and team practices that keep comprehension of your own system yours.

  • How to Do Product Development: What to Include, What to Avoid

    A long-form, evidence-backed guide to product development with industry examples, practical frameworks, and hard-earned lessons.

  • How to Release an MVP When Your Product Has Too Many Features

    Scoping an MVP for a feature-rich system: cut by actor instead of by feature, ship one vertical slice, defer features without deleting the value, decide the buckets in advance, and make deferral reversible with toggles instead of migrations.

  • The Model Won't Ask You Back

    Why a thin question becomes a confident wrong answer, which parts of the prompting folklore are already stale, and why it is a writing skill.

  • Jev Returns a Type, Not a String

    JEV returns typed values with probabilities instead of text. What that changes for AI model routing: the control plane, the failure modes, the benchmarks.

Let's build something that scales.

Planning an AI product, automating a workflow, or taking a platform to production? I'd love to hear what you're building.