Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Stuck choosing a tech stack for your next AI project? You might be overthinking it.
My friend Shaw Talebi is an AI engineer who ships a lot of small AI SaaS projects fast. His rule is simple: build with what you already know. For him, that means Python for basically everything, OpenAI’s API by default, and using models like ChatGPT and Claude up front just to clarify the idea and pick what to implement first.
The goal at this stage is not the most scalable or beautiful system. It is to get from 0 to 1 quickly, validate in the real world, then iterate. That is why he keeps his stack simple, modular, and composable so he can reuse pieces across projects and scale the ones that work instead of throwing away a messy proof of concept.
So if you are stuck comparing frameworks and tools, that is your sign to stop Googling and start shipping with the tools you already know best. The stack matters less than your speed to feedback.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#ai #buildinpublic #python
Stuck choosing a tech stack for your next AI project? You might be overthinking it.
My friend Shaw Talebi is an AI engineer who ships a lot of small AI SaaS projects fast. His rule is simple: build with what you already know. For him, that means Python for basically everything, OpenAI’s API by default, and using models like ChatGPT and Claude up front just to clarify the idea and pick what to implement first.
The goal at this stage is not the most scalable or beautiful system. It is to get from 0 to 1 quickly, validate in the real world, then iterate. That is why he keeps his stack simple, modular, and composable so he can reuse pieces across projects and scale the ones that work instead of throwing away a messy proof of concept.
So if you are stuck comparing frameworks and tools, that is your sign to stop Googling and start shipping with the tools you already know best. The stack matters less than your speed to feedback.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#ai #buildinpublic #python
