Haider Lasani

Haider Lasani has built and maintained real systems since 2008: custom platforms, e-commerce architecture, Laravel backends, AI-assisted delivery workflows, and the kind of documentation that keeps a codebase alive after the first engineer leaves. He kept meeting the same problem in good companies: ambition, unreliable software, and nobody responsible for the long term. He writes for CTOs and engineering leaders whose teams now ship with AI and want to say, every time, what was tested. His two books set out the decisions that have to be made before the code: The Decisions AI Can’t Make for You, on what to decide, own and write down before the first commit, and The Backlog That Thinks, on what to settle before the first user story is refined. He believes software should be intelligent, documented and alive: not patched until it breaks, not impressive in a demo and unusable in production, but built properly, with the next team already in mind.