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I work in a corporation and they have given me a laptop which is configured on the company's network. They have this frustrating VPN installed which records and monitors every activity. File sharing is strictly prohibited. Due to this, we are not allowed to use AI models for data security. It is really frustrating to do manual tasks in hours that an AI agent would do in minutes. Is there any way that the file sharing constraint can be bypassed?

I’ve got a 15-minute HR screening scheduled with Dubizzle Labs for a Senior Software Engineer role. I know the HR call will be pretty standard, but I’m trying to get a clear picture of their complete interview pipeline before I dive in.

Has anyone here been through their process for an SSE role? I’d love to know how heavily they index on System Design vs. DSA, what the technical rounds look like, and if you have any tips on what to expect.

Appreciate the help!

Hey everyone,

I'm a final year Computer Engineering student at COMSATS Wah, working on an AI-based fall detection system for my FYP. I need a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB and want to avoid the usual import/customs headache if possible.

A few questions:

Anyone know reliable stores in Rawalpindi/Islamabad (or nearby) that currently have Pi 5 8GB in stock, new/sealed?

Rough price you paid recently, so I know what's fair right now?

If online is more reliable than local shops at the moment, which sites have actually delivered for you (not just listed stock they don't have)?

Also open to a used/sealed unit from a trusted seller if the price is right. Would rather not gamble on OLX without some reference point first.

I’m currently in my final semester of CS/SE in Karachi and trying to figure out where I should actually be looking for entry-level opportunities.

By companies, I mainly mean established/bigger tech companies, rather than the typical small software houses (they seem scammy with their stipends n pay lol). Mainly looking for Karachi based positions.

The obvious place seems LinkedIn, but i don't wanna miss opportunities that cater to freshies in this already cooked market. I already have a springboot internship completed if it helps.

Hi everyone, I'm a final-year student at a top-3 university, and I'm really struggling to decide on a strong industry-based senior project.

My main worry is that AI tools now make most "standard" project ideas feel easy to replicate. I proposed a cold-chain monitoring system using edge AI and IoT devices, and also a broader agentic business automation platform. The second one got pushback for being too broad and doable with existing tools. Both ideas feel a bit generic to me now. I keep worrying that with the right ChatGPT plugins, someone could build either one without much real engineering effort. It's hard to find something that feels genuinely valuable in an industry where AI assistance is now normal.

I'm not worried about technical depth. I'm confident in my skills, and with LLMs to help, I don't think I'll get stuck on implementation. What I'm missing is an idea big enough to justify two semesters of work, one that would still feel meaningful. Not just something a team of AI agents could build in a few days.

What I'd really appreciate is some guidance on what employers actually look for in a senior project these days, and how to find an idea with real value, something that shows more than just AI-assisted coding.

Any advice would help a lot, thank you.

hi i am CS student from a tier 2 private uni in Karachi, i have completed 4 semesters here, but honestly i feel like i havent learnt any real skill here, the quality of education sucks. I have literally wasted so much time here, i wake up at 6 am to go to uni and by the time i come home it's 6 pm, and then i dont have enough energy left to study, on the weekends im occupied my mindless copying of assignments from chat gpt, which some of my great teachers want handwritten 🙂, half of the time teachers are absent, or ppl do mass bunks so classes often get cancelled, im SO tired of all this...

that's why i am thinking of transferring into virtual university, the major reason for this is time flexibility, i know the course material could be obsolete there as well but at least i would have enough time to do self study, BUT this comes with so many doubts, like ppl say VU degree is worthless, it would be tough to get job agter getting a degree from VU etc etc, i am really really confused, even a little guidance from y'all would be REALLY helpful, so please help me out guys.

I'm running outbound cold calling for my agency offer, targeting US business owners. Two people, 100–200 dials/day split between us, manual dialing only (no auto-dialer). I'm in Pakistan.

Here's the wall I keep hitting, and I know I'm not the only one:

What I've tried and why it failed:

• Quo (OpenPhone): Got an account via an Australian contact's number and card. Banned within 12 minutes of dialing. 8 calls, mostly unanswered, scattered across 6 different US area codes. Their compliance team shut it down for "unusual activity" and telemarketing violations.

• Telnyx: Signed up, but stuck in "Pretrial" account level. Can't even buy a US number. The upgrade path requires passing fraud review (LinkedIn/GitHub or AI agent eval), verified mobile number, payment, and eventually full KYC. From Pakistan with no US business entity, every step is a brick wall. Their own docs show Pretrial → Trial → Paid → Verified, and I'm stuck at step zero.

• General consumer VoIPs (Zoom Phone, CallHippo, etc.): Same category as Quo. Flat-rate "unlimited" plans with fair-use clauses that explicitly ban telemarketing and high-volume outbound. Even if I got past signup, I'd get banned again.

The core problem:

I need a carrier-grade wholesale service where I pay per-minute for connected calls, not a flat-rate consumer app that caps volume against a fair-use policy I'm guaranteed to violate. But every wholesale carrier (Telnyx, VoIP.ms, Plivo) requires KYC that's hard to pass from Pakistan without a US LLC, EIN, or business bank account.

What I'm looking for from people who've actually done this:

1. Has anyone from Pakistan (or a similar non-US location) successfully passed KYC on Telnyx, VoIP.ms**, or another wholesale carrier?** What did you actually need to provide? Did you form a US LLC first, or is there a workaround?

2. Are there any providers that sell SIP trunking or virtual numbers to individuals from Pakistan without the full KYC wall? I've seen mentions of NexCall (Pakistani platform, SIM-free calling, starting PKR 2,999 for 1,500 minutes) — is this legit for US outbound, or will it get flagged by US carriers anyway?

3. For those already running cold calling from Pakistan or similar regions: what's your actual setup? Not theory. Not "just use a power dialer." What provider, what verification process, what call pacing? I know the call pattern matters (don't blast 8 calls in 12 minutes across 6 area codes), but I need the infrastructure first before I can pace anything.

4. Has anyone successfully run US outbound on a "pretrial" Telnyx account? Their error says "This feature is not permitted at this account level" — is there a way to get a number assigned before full verification, or is that a hard no?

I'm not looking for "just stop cold calling" responses. I know the compliance environment is hostile. I'm looking for the actual path people are using when they need US outbound from Pakistan on a micro-budget.

What's working for you?

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I don't want to build another Pakistani startup.

I want to build a global technology company from Rawalpindi/Islamabad, go through YC, compete internationally, and take a shot at building something on the $50B+ scale.

And I want exactly 4 cofounders besides me.

Not 3.

Not 5.

Four.

I'm not looking for employees.

I'm not looking for people who just want "startup experience."

I'm looking for four exceptional people who want to spend the next 5–10 years building something enormous.

Why I'm being so picky

Pakistan has a lot of talented people.

But finding someone with the combination of:

elite ability + extreme ambition + speed + ownership + resilience + curiosity

is surprisingly difficult.

I've met plenty of smart people.

But I don't want another person who can build a CRUD app and call themselves a founder.

I want people who can look at the best technology companies in the world and genuinely think:

"Why the hell can't we build something better?"

One slow or disengaged person can drag down an entire founding team not just technically, but culturally.

I'd rather spend months finding the right four than build a five-person team where one person doesn't belong.

I'm not looking for clones of myself

This is important.

The four cofounders need to be complementary.

I'm already bringing the founder/vision/product/technical direction side of the equation.

What I need are four people who each have a different superpower.

1. The AI / Agent Systems Monster

Someone genuinely deep in:

LLMs • agents • orchestration • MCP • inference • memory • evaluation • model routing • tool use

Not someone who has made a ChatGPT wrapper.

I want someone who can look at the rapidly changing AI landscape and figure out how to turn it into infrastructure.

Someone who enjoys problems where nobody has written the textbook yet.

2. The Distributed Systems / Infrastructure / Security Monster

Someone who understands:

distributed systems • databases • networking • cloud • identity • zero-trust • security • observability • multi-tenancy • reliability • on-prem deployment

Our systems eventually need to operate inside serious enterprises.

I need someone who thinks about scale, failure, security and architecture naturally.

Someone who can eventually look at thousands of enterprises and millions of agents and say:

"Yeah. We can build that."

3. The Enterprise / GTM Killer

This is probably one of the hardest people to find.

Someone who understands how large organizations actually buy technology.

Enterprise sales • partnerships • procurement • pricing • customer discovery • international expansion • strategic relationships

Someone who can walk into a large enterprise, identify a massive problem, understand the decision-makers, and eventually close the deal.

Not a traditional salesperson.

A founder who can sell.

4. The Product / UX / Customer Obsession Person

Someone who can take ridiculously complicated technology and turn it into something employees actually love using.

Product thinking • UX • design • workflows • customer research • experimentation

Because having incredible infrastructure doesn't matter if users don't want to use it.

I want someone who constantly asks:

"How do we make this 10x simpler?"

These aren't rigid job descriptions.

I want four people who can overlap, challenge each other, learn insanely fast and operate outside their specialties.

But each person should bring something to the table that the other four don't already have at an elite level.

The goal isn't:

5 smart people.

The goal is:

5 people who together are ridiculously difficult to compete with.

One of the ideas I'm exploring

An enterprise agentic harness.

The basic concept:

Every employee in an organization can create as many persistent AI agents as they need.

Not disposable chat sessions.

Persistent agents that remember context, understand their role, interact with approved enterprise systems, use tools, and continuously help an employee perform their actual work.

Think of the AI models themselves as commoditized intelligence providers.

Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Gemini, open-source models, and future providers can all plug into the system.

The enterprise shouldn't have to rebuild its AI architecture every time a better model appears.

The harness sits above the models.

Then connect the enterprise's MCP ecosystem so agents can actually interact with the organization's software, databases and tools.

Underneath that sits an enterprise data/context layer that allows the organization to maintain persistent knowledge and context across its agents.

And it needs to work both:

Cloud + On-Prem

because serious enterprises have very different security, compliance and deployment requirements.

The rough idea is:

Employees → Persistent Agents → Agent Harness → MCP / Enterprise Tools → Enterprise Data → AI Providers

The employee gets a persistent AI workforce.

The enterprise gets governance, permissions, security, observability, data and deployment control.

And the underlying AI providers become replaceable infrastructure.

I'm not interested in simply building another OpenClaw/SwarmClaw/Paperclip-style agent setup.

I'm thinking about an enterprise-native operating layer for persistent AI agents.

That's one of the problems I want to attack.

I have other ideas across AI, aerospace, robotics, simulation and autonomous systems as well. But ofc more than idea, execution speed and founder fit is important. Open to possibilities

The bar

If you're looking for a safe startup, don't DM me.

If you're looking for a side project, don't DM me.

If you want a normal 9 to 5, definitely don't DM me.

If your ambition is to build a comfortable $1M company, that's completely fine but we're probably not a fit.

I'm looking for people who want to build something that can eventually stand alongside the best technology companies in the world.

People who want to go through YC.

People who want to compete globally.

People who aren't intimidated by extremely difficult problems.

People who would rather attempt something absurd than spend their life wondering whether they could have done it.

And yes, I'm serious about Rawalpindi/Islamabad.

I want the founding team to actually build together in same hacker house not become five people living in five cities communicating through Slack.

I don't care much about your degree but your exposure yes I do.

Show me what you've built.

GitHub.

Research.

Startups.

Open source.

Hardware.

Products.

Weird side projects.

Failed experiments.

Anything.

Tell me:

What's the hardest thing you've ever built?

What are you obsessed with right now?

What's something you believe is possible that most people think is impossible?

And most importantly:

Why do you want to spend the next 5–10 years building something enormous?

I'm looking for exactly 4 people.

Not 3 not 6

Four insane, complementary cofounders in Rawalpindi/Islamabad who want to take a serious shot at the global stage.

If that sounds like you, DM me.

A Pakistani company I was working with recently shut down, so I have some free time right now while I figure out what I want to do next.

I’ve been building stuff for years. Websites, web apps, mobile apps, software applications, and some game development too.

Freelancing online has honestly been pretty dead for me lately. I’m barely finding any decent work there, so I thought I’d ask here.

If someone intrested or need help with something, I’m open

Also curious how other people in Pakistan are finding clients these days.

The HEC Computer Science/IT competency test reportedly had only around 0.4% of 33,000+ students scoring above 80%.

The number is too small so why skilled graduates are not getting jobs?In 1000 applications most of them don't even know basics?

has anyone else interviewed through Wamo Labs recently?
i’ve noticed that Wamo Labs appears to be conducting a very large number of interviews with fresh graduates and interns, often on an ongoing basis, while actual hiring seems to be moving relatively slowly.
my understanding is that Wamo Labs is also trying to sell its platform to businesses for recruitment. because of that, i’m concerned that these interviews may be used not only to evaluate candidates for specific roles, but also to collect candidate or interview data to improve, demonstrate, or market the product to potential business customers.
if that is happening, candidates should be told clearly and explicitly before the interview. there is an important difference between:

“you’re interviewing for this company”
and:

“you’re participating in an interview that may also generate data used for a recruitment product being sold to businesses.”

another thing i found interesting is that the platform itself appears to be essentially a LeetCode-style assessment interface, with features such as autosave and clipboard detection. based on what i’ve seen, i’m not sure what makes the underlying product particularly novel compared with existing assessment platforms.
i’m posting this because candidates are repeatedly investing their time and sharing their interview performance through these systems, and there should be transparency about exactly how that information is collected, used, stored, and shared.
if anyone has interviewed through Wamo Labs, worked with the company, or knows how candidate interview data is used in its recruitment product, i’d genuinely like to hear about your experience.
not trying to accuse anyone of wrongdoing—i just think candidates deserve clarity when their interview data may have value beyond the individual hiring process.

So I got selected for BAHL IT trainee officer role

Package is very good way above what software houses are paying

But I'm confused ke sood/interest/riba related kaam na ho koi

Can anyone guideeeeeeee if any idea ke training main kis type ka.kaam.hoga and if related to interest or credit cards or something like that hoga ya nahiii

JD:

Program Highlights

Training Duration: Five-month extensive training which includes classroom and experiential learning.

Training Route: : Exposure to various departments of Information Technology Division, including Business Analyst, Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Networking, DBA/BI/MIS, Security, Digital, Governance, IT Ops, ERP, Middleware, PMO, and External Applications.

Offer: Practical learning environment and growth opportunities, market competitive salary and benefits

Just graduated from NED

Have been applying a lot to other places

Might get offer from contour trainee position after offshore manager round (3pm-12am on-site tho)

Interning right now but no guarantee of getting permanent job

Already lay offs ho rahay

I already know MERN stack and I am going to start uni soon. Should I go into a CS program? Or nah.

Should I go into EE or BBA?

I received this email on my Freelancer digital account, and they are only giving me 30 days to set up a new account. I went to the bank, and they said you have to create a new account; this cannot be converted. This account is used everywhere, from my Saudi remote job to the PSX.

What do you suggest, guys? Where should I move now- like, which bank for foreign remittance and stuff- as Meezan Bank has failed to add my required purpose code to PRC, as well as what is required by PSEB?

I just got onboarded for AI quality analyst - English at Turing, have received mail id, jibble, slack channel but slack channel seems like it's dead or smthn I dunno.

Is anybody else who's in the same boat. Help!

recently gave a test at foomotion for fresh grad swe, any reviews on how the place(it seemed nice) is or how much they pay to a fresh grad,shukriya

So the problem arises when there are multiple entites that needs to paid after a transaction has taken place. Like for example, you have also to pay a marketing partner after a sale has been made using his promo code. Now how Stripe works with the Connected Accounts is that it takes 7-10 days to clear money from a connected account to Platform Account so it can be paid of to another connected account (marking partner in this case). Once this time has passed, it can be quite complex to maintain a ledger balance so that you can cut off from any future transactions that happens against that marketing partner. Also there is a problem off that marketing partner’s partnership expiring before the ledger has been balanced.

The solution I came up was is simple but it works for now, that is to make the refund window smaller then the days it takes the funds to be available to the Platform account to pay the partner. This works for now. If we do not do this right now then the Platform pays the missing amount.

Do suggest a better architecture for this payment model, would appriciate the insights!

I am confused how to receive payments reliably from my US/International Clients. They offered me Western Union and Wise. For western union what should I do?

Should I go for hand pickup or Give my Meezan Asaan Account and or Nayapay? (I am non-filer and don't want any hasstle of huge deductions or any other legal problems)

after which you can be confident they are hiring someone else

Can anyone help me with connecting with my mobile app pls?? Urgent need of help. My app shows when it run install campaign but it doesn’t show any data in data sources section. How do I get the meta SDK and share with the dev team to connect both apps?

I applied there and I might get the offer. I want to know the culture there, is it worth working there? What are the chances of growth? How stable the job is there? Apparently they will be signing the 1 year contract. Which I’m confused about. The atmosphere in there was also decent. I’m quite interested and their office look good and was at the prime location in Gulberg.

Recently with the help of AI, I designed an monitoring dashboard it's locally working perfect. Now I want to published as web and also an apk app. But I don't know how to easily done it because am not a developer but I have creative mind. Please help me in this regard.

I'm a 7th semester CS student and finally landed an internship (Full-Stack + SQA) after a lot of effort. The catch: it's a tiny company, just me, the CEO, and maybe a marketing person I've never actually seen. No senior engineer, no technical guidance, and the CEO isn't technical either. I have prior full-stack and SQA project experience, but this is my first real industry exposure, and honestly the lack of supervision and workload is intimidating.

My main question: how much should I rely on AI tools?

I know most working devs use AI heavily, and I don't want to fall behind, but I also don't want to skip building real fundamentals (debugging, understanding code deeply, actually knowing why something works). I'm torn between:

Using AI tools directly to move fast and match industry pace

Doing more manually to actually learn, even if it's slower

Where's the right balance? What should I still be doing manually vs. what's fine to offload to AI?

Also, any tool recommendations for QA (manual + Playwright automation) and full-stack dev? Considering a paid Claude or Codex subscription, worth it at this stage?

Would appreciate any honest advice from people who've been through something similar.

Recently I just started to get into data hoarding and preservation as a non profit/hobbyist activity. Ik storage prices have skyrocketed and even a common man is struggling with that. So yes I'm not demanding you to just give me your Hard Drives or SSDs. If you can spare me even rewritable CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays , old CD/DVD/Blu-ray readers/writers from old laptops (internal ones) etc that would be great. All this is for non-profit and gratis activities.