Shamim Rajani is COO and co-founder of Genetech, a software development company with 100+ people and offices in Karachi and Detroit serving clients across North America and Europe. She's also co-founder of Code Girls, a bootcamp that has trained over 2,000 women in Pakistan's tech industry, former chairperson of PASHA — Pakistan's national IT industry association — and writes The Leadership Lens, a Substack on the harder, less-talked-about side of leading teams.

In this conversation, we discuss:

1. Why Genetech built an internal AI research lab a year before they expected results from it — and what that patience bought them
2. The mid-level developer problem: why this layer is the most endangered, and what juniors and seniors each bring that AI can't replace
3. The productivity paradox — how AI can turn a 100-hour task into a 130-hour one, and when seniors decide it's faster to scrap the output and do it themselves
4. How small and medium business clients are using "aren't you using AI?" as a bargaining chip — without really understanding what they're asking
5. Shamim's real experiment: reviewing the same code manually and with AI, what each caught, and what she learned about where to trust it
6. Why she's comparing AI to the blockchain bubble — and why she changed her mind

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