Uzair SaleemWriting
Notes from building things.
Short essays on payments, data that has to stay correct, and working with AI in the loop.
How to show 2 years of revenue when Stripe only remembers 3 months
I built a dashboard that promised founders 2 years of revenue history. The data source it relied on only kept the last 3 months. This is the story of that contradiction, told so it makes sense whether or not you write code.
AI is leverage. It's not autocomplete.
Most engineers use AI to type faster. A smaller group uses it to ship faster. The gap between those two is the entire story of what changed about this job in the last 18 months.