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Saif Ali

Houston, Karachi
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Startups and VC in Pakistan 🇵🇰 Quoted in @nytimes, @restofworld, @asharqnews, @reuters

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Pakistan has the worst economy in Asia-Pacific region: Report - The Express Tribune

Pakistan has the worst economy in Asia-Pacific region: Report - The Express Tribune

The 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index, which ranks 142 countries on global prosperity based on both material weal…

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NEXUS AI - Claude Code Tutorial

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By Saif Ali
| DEV Community
Most Claude Code tutorials stop at "here's how to install it." That's like teaching someone to drive by showing them the ignition. This Claude Code tutorial goes further — you'll use it to build a real AI-powered app from scratch and deploy it to production, step by step. By the end you'll have a working document Q&A API and a live deployment URL. The whole thing takes about an afternoon.
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Inside the NEXUS AI App Builder: an agentic full-stack workspace, not a code generator

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By Saif Ali
| DEV Community
Published: August 4, 2026 Category: AI Builder Reading time: 11 minutes Author: NEXUS AI Team Most "AI app builders" do one thing well: turn a prompt into a first draft. Ask for a second change, a real database, or a form that actually submits, and the illusion breaks. You are back in a normal editor, debugging code nobody on your team wrote. The NEXUS AI App Builder is built around a different assumption: the first draft is the easy part.
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A brave news world

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By Saif Ali
| Mail & Guardian Verified
There are new players in the field of news, and they are no longer operating at the margins. Across South Africa, audiences are not only changing where they get their news, but whom they trust to tell it. On blogs, social media platforms, newsletters, podcasts and video channels, a new class of independent, or “indie”, information providers is exerting significant influence over the public conversation.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Sub-editor on the web desk of The Express Tribune.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Never, but always wanted to.

How is social media changing news?

Twitter has brought about the era of 'real-time journalism', which has a huge impact on how news is shared.