Saad Rehmani

I wrote about how product managers should deliberately decide which features should be built to an A grade and which ones should be built to a B or even only a C grade. Making the resource tradeoffs to optimize business outcomes is a core job of product management, and building every capability to an A grade is a poor use of scarce resources. https://lnkd.in/gTXBfNYE

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Stardew Valley meets Enterprise RAG? 🚜 🤖 One of the hardest challenges in moving Generative AI from prototype to production is authorization. How do you ensure the LLM only retrieves data the specific user is allowed to see? Our friends Sohan Maheshwar at AuthZed and Rohit Ghumare at motia just dropped a fantastic reference architecture solving exactly this. Using a Stardew Valley "harvest logbook" as the use case, they demonstrate how to build a complete, multi-tenant RAG pipeline. The Stack: ⚡ Orchestration: motia (Event-driven workflows) 🧠 Memory: Pinecone (Vector search & storage) 🔒 Security: #SpiceDB (Fine-grained authorization) This is a masterclass in building secure, context-aware AI applications. Check out the full tutorial below. 👇 #GenerativeAI #RAG #VectorDatabase #Pinecone #Authorization #Engineering #KnowledgeableAI

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A lot shifted in 2025. AI made some things easier and other things more complicated, and it pushed teams to focus more on resilience. The 2025 State of the Internet Year in Review breaks down what stood out most this year. https://lnkd.in/eh2eZXfA

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Beyond the hype, the true value of GenAI lies in how it can reimagine workflows—within our own organizations and across the industry. Discover how emerging tech transforms operations: https://1blk.co/4oKiYu4

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REALTOR TO DEV: Learned Scratch as a kid and years later 19-yr old Chef 🧑‍🍳 Gallmeyer https://lnkd.in/d7NT6zuN is both a top realtor and now a digital product maker. But what's his secret recipe? 1. Chef Gallmeyer's deep in domain knowledge. He not only earned one of the top scores in Island County on his realtor exams, but he's forever been an apprentice to his realtor uncle. 2. Chef Gallmeyer knows how to speak machine. He's a computational thinker who works incrementally towards solutions and recognizes that engineering challenges can't get solved all at once. 3. Chef Gallmeyer is disciplined. When you're a lot younger (than me), your ability to both maximize and waste time is at an all-time high. Brandon uses his time most effectively the way that startup founders work. --- Realtor to Developer 🎂 Episode: https://lnkd.in/d7NT6zuN All 50 Cozy AI 🍰 Episodes: https://lnkd.in/g6upvbGX How To Speak Machine (2025) 📘 MIT Press: https://lnkd.in/gC9DGPb8

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Commerce & Revenue Optimization ​ Today, recommendations are the default in commerce—guests expect relevant options, not generic offers. Onboard is no different. ​ ​ Ascendion helps cruise lines use AI-driven personalization to make it easy for guests to discover, explore, and buy—whether it’s dining, retail, or excursions. With predictive offers and tailored recommendations, every interaction has the potential to increase spend and satisfaction. ​ ​ When commerce feels natural and helpful, it becomes part of the experience, rather than a distraction. ​ ​ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/guDUnmNc ​ ​ #CruiseLine #Ascendion #FutureOfWork #EngineeringAI #DigitalCommerce ​

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If you are anywhere near Fullerton, California this week, join us for the next "I Build with AI" meetup, where Mark Warrick, AI Strategist and App Developer, will be presenting and running a workshop on how to Turn Your Domain Expertise into a Mobile App with AI! Instead of focusing on code or technical implementation details, the session centers on understanding intent, decision-making, and real-world judgment, and how AI can help translate that thinking into software. To make the concepts concrete, Mark will walk through a real example called Trail Palette, a mobile weather app designed for outdoor photographers. Drawing on his experience spending countless hours in mountainous terrain as both a guide and photographer, Mark brings an intuitive understanding of how weather, light, and landscape interact, and how that domain knowledge shapes the logic and behavior of an app. This session is designed for knowledge workers and domain experts who are non-developers that want a clear mental model of what it takes to build a mobile app using AI. Along with a hands-on workshop, you’ll gain an understanding of the tools involved and inspiration to see how your own domain expertise could become the foundation for software. RSVP for the event at: https://lnkd.in/gCj-GTD5

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