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Abdul Moiz
Full-Stack Engineer | SaaS, AI & Marketplaces
New to Contra
Abdul is ready for their next project!
The obvious map stack wasn’t the right one.
While building a property marketplace for East Africa, we needed a map experience that looked polished and worked reliably across local neighborhoods.
Google Maps was too expensive early on.
Mapbox looked great, but search coverage in...
Most AI products don’t fail because of the model.
They fail because the system around it was never designed properly.
Choosing GPT, Claude, or an open-source model matters—but production AI also needs:
• Reliable data
• Strong retrieval and ranking
• Clear evaluation
• Guardrails...
Why Transformers Changed AI Forever
Before Transformers:
Models processed information sequentially.
After Transformers:
Models learned which information matters most through attention.
The key innovation wasn't bigger models.
It was allowing every token to look at every other token.
