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Ahad Amdani

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I'm Ahad. 20+ years building software, helping creators, solopreneurs, and small businesses end AI overwhelm: pick one problem, build the thing that solves it, turn the noise into one working system. No hype, no chasing every model. New issue weekly.

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Ahad Amdani writes Product with Attitude and writes Level Up with AI . They have also been a guest on The AI Maker . They also write for G8N•AI on Substack.

Recently: “Is Claude Duet Worth the Waitlist? I Asked Two AI Builders Who’ve Been Using It” on The AI Maker (November 2026); “30 Creators Tested What Claude Opus 5.5 Can Do with One Vague Prompt” on Product with Attitude (October 2026); “How To Make Your Content Creation Life Easier with AI” on Level Up with AI (July 2026); “Build With Attitude ✊ - An Open Invitation To Vibe Coders Who Care About Building Things That Matter” on Product with Attitude (January 2026).

What They Said

“It's been very honest about its own gaps… There were 10 open tasks that I had handed off to it and it got through most of the way, but it still had to hand it off back to me to complete. So it wasn't able to go from start to finish, but it was really good at nudging.” — Ahad Amdani, The AI Maker

Ahad answered a question about where Claude Duet has worked and where it has not for him. It is the core verdict of the episode: strong at proactive nudges, weak at finishing long tasks on its own.

The AI Maker · 2026-11-08 Permalink → Listen →
The AI Maker
Ahad Amdani

right? Yes, just creating a session because I Asked still trying to get the software factory session going, and it's not going anywhere. It's not even creating a session in the desktop.

Dheeraj Sharma

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Ahad Amdani

So I Asked going to actually ask you, Dirich, in your experience, where has Duet been effective for you and where it hasn't? Because in my experience, as far as effectiveness, it's been great for prepping the four calls, like the sheet that you're talking about. That was really good for me as well. Catching wrong facts before they cost you that, like you were doing with the calendar guard. Supervising the fleet, of course, that's specific to me. But because I Asked it monitoring my fleet and giving me updates, it's been a great job. It even took a list of 99 items that were waiting on me and was able to reduce it to 28 automatically based on all of the context, right? It's also been, like I mentioned, the search visibility report earlier. So it's been giving me really great suggestions and helped me improve my conversations with my clients. It's also been very honest about its own gaps, right? I've fed it other articles of how people are using AI always on AI assistance. I've heard it called a few things, but basically always on machines like…

Speaker 1

have direct access to GitHub.

Ahad Amdani

So you need to

Dheeraj Sharma

have basically a cloud code cloud session in order to give that access. I mean, if you have like a GitHub connector installed, it would access something. But what will it access for? That's the thing, right? So it can read the code over there and ask or answer your replies based on that. But it's…

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“I feel like it's been a really weak chief of staff. It's been great as a researcher, as a preparation before calls. And because I've connected it to the fleet, it supervises the fleet well.” — Ahad Amdani, The AI Maker

The hosts had been framing Claude Duet as an always-on chief of staff, similar to other proactive agents. Ahad, who connected it to his own fleet of Claude agents, says it has not met that bar for him, though it is useful in narrower roles.

The AI Maker · 2026-11-08 Permalink → Listen →
The AI Maker
Speaker 1

background. Awesome. Thank you. So, I think, yeah, from here, I think we'll just start the sessions. And Diraj, do you want to take us

Dheeraj Sharma

…in into my. Business or my whole Gen AI and plug journey. So I'll stop here. Like maybe Ahad, you may have a different perspective. Maybe Windows, you may be using the Grockbots or the dots in a different way. But this is how I Asked as the first usage of Claude Duet Worth getting into what it is.

Ahad Amdani

Oh, absolutely. From my perspective, and I did see Windows' great Grockbot newsletter. He and I were talking about it right before we started. The use cases that he's seeing for Grockbot and the different bots that he's employing, I definitely think that Duet can eventually achieve that level. And I Asked trying to use it in that same way because as I mentioned before, I Asked a fleet of AI agents and I Asked an orchestrator within that fleet that I can speak to sort of as a chief of staff, not quite there yet. Because as you mentioned, you have to basically be the one who is proactive. You have to pass it the tasks and push it to do things. And I did slightly solve that by creating some Launch D basically scheduled jobs on my machine to prompt my Claude sessions because I run my fleet with Tmux and I Asked a bunch of persistent sessions running, right? That's my series of agents. And my initial thought for something like Duet was, hey, this is going to be like MetaMuse or…

Speaker 1

Yeah, one quick thing. Yeah, I think I Asked with those points. And so I think the current trend right now is basically how to remove us as the human from the bottleneck in a way that when we use ChatGPT or Claude, we normally just type in the prominently. And then as you have more threads, then…

Dheeraj Sharma

Okay, that's great insight, I would say, and great vision. But whether we are not there or with Whether we are there or not, let's see because, um, in my experience, it's not there yet, window. Uh, what we have been talking about, but again, you know, let's see what it solved for me at least. You…

Speaker 1

based on like the case for each one of

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