Jamal AwadNotes & opinions
Short pieces on crawling, platforms, and how I think about shipping under real-world constraints: not a full blog, just signal.
Ship beats perfect when you are the first user
I build tools to scratch my own itches, share what survives contact with reality, and watch AI compress the loop from idea to running code.
Crawling is a product problem, not a script problem
Why the interesting work is rarely the spider alone, and what actually breaks in production.
AI shines after the fetch path is honest
Models help structure and reason about content, but they cannot fix a systematically broken retrieval layer.
Technical leadership is ownership, not attendance
What “lead” has meant for me when systems run 24/7 and the web does not cooperate.