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Sal Shirgaleev
Who writes it

Sal Shirgaleev

Self-taught engineer · ex-Dataminr · 60k on Instagram

I dropped out of school and taught myself to code. Ten years later, I've shipped production code at Dataminr and other AI companies — real-time AI systems and fintech platforms managing billions of dollars. Now I run a fleet of agents to ship every day, and share how with 60k people on Instagram.

This newsletter is the working notes from that fleet. Whatever I figured out last week, you get on Thursday.

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