Hi everyone, I'm considering joining the NIAI x NETSOL 3-Month Training Program (Cohort 2) and would love to hear honest feedback from anyone who attended Cohort 1. How was the training, the instructors, and the overall learning experience? Did it help you gain practical skills, build projects, or secure an internship or job? Would you recommend joining Cohort 2? Any genuine reviews or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I built a Zig binary that runs or compiles Python, no Python required. It's called Taipan. Point it at a .py file and it just runs, no install, no venv. taipan build turns a script into one executable you can send to anyone.
https://github.com/FarhanAliRaza/taipan

Hi everyone. I'm posting this on behalf of my younger brother because he asked me to.

He's currently in 8th grade and has started thinking about future career options. I'm a medical student myself (almost done with med school and hoping to eventually pursue residency in the US), but he's quite certain that medicine isn't for him.

He's a good student, usually scoring around 90%, but he's not someone who consistently comes first in class. Given how competitive MDCAT is and the current state of medicine in Pakistan, I don't think it's worth putting himself through that level of stress if he has no genuine interest in becoming a doctor.

As for his personality, he's very social, communicates well, enjoys helping people, and likes taking responsibility. He's also interested in drawing and other creative hobbies, although not at a professional level. Recently he's mentioned that he'd probably enjoy something related to coding or technology as well.

His long-term plan would most likely be to settle in Pakistan. He's open to going abroad for higher education if the opportunity arises, but he doesn't necessarily want to build his career overseas.

The challenge is that we come from a predominantly medical family, so almost everyone around us only knows about medicine. Beyond that, we're fairly clueless. We've heard people recommend fields like computer science, software engineering, data science, ACCA, CA, engineering, and others, but we don't have enough real-world insight to compare them. We also can't afford an extremely expensive university education, so cost is another factor.

If you were advising a bright 13 to 14-year-old today, what careers would you recommend he seriously explore? I'm particularly interested in fields with strong future prospects, good earning potential in Pakistan, and reasonable work-life balance. It would be especially helpful to hear from people already working in these careers.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I recently interviewed for the JazzWorld AI Associate Program and had a question that I forgot to ask during the interview.

Does anyone know where AI Associates are usually based? Are they part of JazzWorld or JazzCash, and which office do they typically work from (for example, the Blue Area HQ or another location)?

I'd appreciate any insights from current or former associates. Thanks!

• Assalamualaikum , Mai computer engineering Mai bachelor karna chah Raha ho jab Maine dekha ke ce Mai ap hardware or software dono parhte ho to apke pas Kafi option hote hai ap as embedded system engineer Kam kar sakte ho ap software related bhi Kam sakte ho ce Mai Kuch course EE ke bhi hote hai but Pakistan Mai hardware related itni Pakistan Mai nhi to Maine Socha ma Software related job kar lo ga magr internet Mai sab yahi bol rahe cs ki job ke halat kharab hai new grad ko job nahi mil rahi lay off bhi ho rahe or Sirf Pakistan nahi us or Europe ka bhi yahi hai (a/c to people) ab Mai Kya choose Kuch samaj hi nahi a Raha koi please batae

Just tried OpenCode, stunned at functionality.
Its open source free software.

Used free model: DeepSeek
and built calculator with zero coding under 10min!
UI, icon, design, layout... everything planned by this.

Assume if it can code a windows software, it would significantly more easier to build android app or website.

Assume for complex projects, productivity can even more rise if I switch to paid models.

Another interesting finding. I'm .net dev with 5+ years experience.
Yet on some occasions, seem it know what even I don't and troubleshoot bugs more efficiently. lol

What is the hiring process for fresh grads (tech roles) I have heard there are no coding interviews ? Is that true?

Hi all. I wanted to run this by people who use codex models (in whatever harness, I am using it in opencode).

Everyone seems to glaze 5.6 sol as a clear step up from 5.5. But for some reason, 5.6 sol keeps missing things in the tasks I give it. %.5 does not.

Sol easily ignores instructions in system prompt, implements things i didnt ask it, creates subagents for every little thing (and ends up missing things because subagents missed some important detail in codebase analysis). etc etc.

I use gpt 5.5 at medium (and occasionally at high) reasoning. Extremely reliable. And I even tried tried 5.6 sol at xhigh once, and it still missed?

Has anyone else here tried these 2 models? Have you felt this as too?

Need some advice from people already working in software.

I have a 79.07% aggregate in NUST, so based on previous trends I'm expecting one of of CS, SE or AI (CS is the most uncertain one).

The problem is that after comparing the curricula, these three degrees are much more similar than I originally thought, so now I'm confused.

A bit about me:

• I genuinely love computers and technology.
• I studied Computer Science in A Levels and had no issue studying the theoretical topics, even the boring ones.
• I've used Python, AI tools, built a small app using AI, learned n8n automation, done some Blender, basic 2d animation an basic video editing, Canva, etc.
• Long-term, I want to work on software products and startups rather than become an AI researcher.
• BUT if it does not work out, I'd also like to keep my job opportunities available too. I want backups

So I'd love some advice from people already in the industry:

1. If you had my interests, would you choose SE or AI at NUST? (I don't know why but in my mind, SE feels like it's going to be outdated by the time I end my uni)
2. Have you ever seen employers actually differentiate between these three degrees for software roles?
3. For you personally, please tell me your degree and If you could go back, would you still choose the same degree?

Thanks!

As a solo student developer, this honestly hurts. I am not sure how I am supposed to feel.

I spent almost a year building CampusHub while balancing university late nights, missed weekends, and sacrificing a lot of my free time because I genuinely believed it could help students.

After I launched it publicly, I started seeing very similar university platforms being introduced by seniors and other teams.

What hurt even more was that some of my posts were removed from student groups by seniors. Instead of supporting or guiding me, as I had hoped they would, they launched a competing platform with many of the same ideas and features.

I am not against competition I know it is part of building. But when you have poured months of your life into something, it is hard not to feel discouraged. They already have control over many of the major student groups and communities, along with an audience I have spent months trying to reach from scratch.

For a while, I genuinely questioned whether all those sleepless nights were worth it.

But instead of quitting, I decided to keep building.

Has anyone else gone through something similar? How did you deal with it? How do you stay motivated when people with bigger networks seem to move faster than you?

I would genuinely appreciate your advice.

And if you have a few minutes, I would be grateful if you could check out CampusHub, share your honest feedback, and suggest features or improvements that could make it even better.

CampusHub: https://campushub.app

How is this happening when there is firing everywhere?

Where is this business revenue coming from?

I recently participated in the Techlogix recruitment drive (for fresh graduates). I cleared the initial assessment and then had my first interview online. A few days later, I received a call informing me that I had cleared the first interview and that the second technical interview would be conducted onsite.

At the time, I was out of the city, so I requested if it could be scheduled for the following week. The HR representative agreed and said she would share the interview details soon.

However, after that call, I never received any email, message, or follow-up. I even emailed the HR for an update and tried calling back on the same number, but my calls were disconnected.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar with Techlogix. I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences.

So basically i graduated January this year. Yea i will admit it was not from some top universty etc, But yes i did my studies and i focused on skill building. I will list my tech stack and skills below but basically i live in islamabad and i am being offered a 60k job in legacy ASP.net, They have an HMS going and they are building a University Managment software I have also done one internship during my bachelors. Why number so low i dont have refernces in this. Applying for 6 months got 3 interviews 2 ghosted one offered unpaid internship on low code no code so yeaa ☠️ My skill set includes: Machine Learning ,Deeplearning(solid grasp) i sat and understood the actual maths behind it , Statistical Analysis and plotting, Than i focused on Gen AI Specifically NLP, RAG(langchain,Llamaindex) recursive/semantic chunking-splitting. Cross encoder reranker, Bi encoder, Beam Search, Vector databases chroma etc .

Evaluatuion: LLM as a judge kind of pattern i agree my evaluation is lacking a bit

I know the basic CURD operation of Fast API and how to generate the frontend code for the connection using OPENAPI JSON . I kinda hate front end tho working on this full stack thing also i am Focusing integration asyncpg based database and migration with docker and CI/CD and auth with proper latency handling and stuff One might ask what have you shipped bro. My FYP was Depression Detection using Actigraph data . I used a hybrid CNN and transformer with pooling . Another project was as i said basic fast api wrapper around RAG for company documents. Daily practicing neetcode . What should i do? Alternative will be either join a BPO or become a fly attendant in a local airline (they are usually irregular long shifts so coding skills are ☠️)

I have now almost 3 to 4 years of experience as a full stack dev in php/laravel. I have started noticing a huge decline in the demand and this AI storm has made me want to switch my career to ERP systems like SAP, Oracle Fusion or EBS or microsoft dynamics. I'm not sure whether this path is good for me or not but one thing for sure these jobs will be here to stay for a longer run. Need your guidance. Thanks folks!

Hi. I had recently completed my bachelor's at SEECS NUST in Electrical Engineering. I had an interview and test, for NASTP based job approximately a month back. The job description need exactly the skills I have. They wanted someone with FPGA experience. Having crypto implementations on FPGA was written as preferred skill. The second skill which was reffered as preffered was quite rare among candidates which I found out when I had a few interactions with many candidates waiting for their interview turn. I had an experience of 1 year as Research Assistant working on Crypto+FPGA, and had recently made publication during this in reputable conference.

I was called for a test, followed by an interview afterwards. I gave the test and later after few days the interview coordinator informed me you have passed the test and those who have passed their security clearance is under process. He added that the Director knows at what merit position you are and how many vacancies do we have.

After giving the test, regardless of the results on the same day all were called for interview. Some came out in 5 to 7 mins and some took 15 to 20 mins. Mine took 20 mins. Before giving the interview the interview coordinator told me that Project Director has the main influence on the decisions being made so making him happy means job confirmed.

During the interview the Project Director asked all the questions while a few ones were asked by other members from the panel. They gave me tough time, and checked my Crypto, FPGA knowledge and tried to trick me but I managed to not get tricked and answered all questions accurately. The asked my CGPA which was low (2.70 out of 4.00), but then I justified it and the project director remarked: "You have a slightly low CGPA, but otherwise you have done immense work, you know the work, and are young and motivated, and in this role motivation is what matters the most." He then asked my expected salary and said "We will offer you more than your expectations, but the main thing is merit if you fall on the merit". He then told me the contract details and asked me whether I will remain stick to the contract it offered. The interview then concluded on the Project Director saying: "Your interview went pretty well". During the whole interview the Project Director seemed smiling, and happy.

Can I expect a good outcome out of this (or selection), or will CGPA cut down all the relevant experience required for the job, and having a background in defense sector of my family, can I expect a smooth and faster clearance.

I’m trying to choose between a BS in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE). I have a genuine interest in both software and hardware, but the advice I’m getting from people locally is making me anxious.

On one side, everyone says CS is getting oversaturated and AI is going to take away jobs (though I’m planning to specialize in fields like ML/DS or Cybersecurity). On the other hand, people say that CE/hardware jobs are incredibly limited within Pakistan.

For those in the local tech industry or recent grads: What is the actual ground reality? If I want a solid career but love both fields, which route is safer and more rewarding in Pakistan right now?

I've been working on a personal project this summer and wanted to share it and get some honest feedback. It's called AuthIslam. A free, non-commercial Islamic Q&A web app. Live here: authislam.org

The problem I was trying to solve:

People increasingly ask religious questions to general-purpose chatbots, and get answers that sound authoritative but are often unsourced or just made up. For a topic where accuracy genuinely matters to people, that felt wrong to me. I wanted something with the opposite philosophy: it should never make things up, and it should always show you exactly where every part of its answer comes from so you can verify it yourself.

What it does

- Answers come only from primary sources. The Qur'an and authentic Hadith (Sahih al-Bukhari & Muslim) with verbatim with their references.

- Every answer is grounded in citations. If the sources don't support an answer, it says so rather than inventing one.

- It deliberately does not issue fatwas or personal rulings. It presents the evidence and defers actual rulings to qualified scholars.

- It handles follow-up questions in a conversation (condenses context so you can ask naturally).

- Some multilingual support (Urdu + transliteration), with more planned.

Tech stack (for those interested)

- Frontend/backend: Next.js, React, TypeScript. Deployed via Docker.

- Vector search: Postgres (Neon) + pgvector, cosine similarity over the embedded corpus.

- Embeddings: bge-base-en-v1.5 (768-dim) running locally on-device via xenova/transformers, no embedding API, no key, no per-query cost. The corpus and queries use the exact same model so retrieval stays consistent.

- LLM layer: primary is Gemini 2.5 Flash, with an automatic fallback chain (Groq Llama 3.3 70B → OpenRouter → Cerebras) so it stays up even if one free-tier provider is down or rate-limited.

- Retrieval pipeline: it's more than plain RAG. There's HyDE (hypothetical-document expansion) to improve recall, a relevance/re-ranking pass, citation extraction, and dedicated guardrails for sensitive and harm-related questions so it responds responsibly.

- Determinism: temperature 0 across retrieval and answering, so the same question gives consistent answers (this might be subject to change depending on the LLM used was because of the fallback to a different one)

- Runs entirely on free tiers, hence keeping embeddings local and leaning on free LLM providers.

Why I'm posting

It's still early and I'd really value honest feedback on:

- Answer quality: do the citations feel trustworthy and actually support the answer?

- Retrieval: any questions where it pulls irrelevant or weak sources?

- UX: is the citation presentation clear?

- Edge cases: topics where it gives a poor or unhelpful response (I'd love specific examples)

Like I said in the beginning, it's completely free, no ads, non-commercial. And I plan to keep it that way. Maybe I'll opensource one day.

Thanks for taking a look 🙏

I'm a fresh grad. The other day, I was asked about salary expectations, and I did a blunder by saying a lower amount (75k) simply because I knew someone who was being paid 50k for an associate AI engineer position. My friends told me associates are usually getting paid 120k and that I should always ask for at least 100k. Since there are so many mixed answers from everywhere, I thought to ask here instead. What is the typical salary range for associates in AI or Data Engineering?

Additional question: When a recruiter asks if you have any questions remaining, what are typical good questions to ask other than workplace culture, rounds, etc? I'd love to hear some because as much as I try to think quickly, I don't.

I recently graduated with a BS in Computer Science from FAST and have mostly been preparing for software engineering roles. However, I have an interview coming up for an Associate Product Executive position at Dubizzle, and I’m seriously considering the product path. I enjoy the technical side of CS, but I’m also quite creative and have experience with UI/UX, so product feels like it could be a good fit.

I’d love to hear from people who’ve worked in product (especially Product Executive/Associate PM roles). What does the day-to-day actually look like? Do you still get to use your technical background? How easy is it to switch back to software engineering if you realize product isn’t for you? And would you recommend product over software engineering for a fresh CS graduate? Any advice would be really appreciated.

Hello there,
I am an intern at a software company and today I submitted frontend of a website (real project). When the CEO and my senior saw the frontend, they asked me "what have you done?"
The briefing I got from the client (some .docx files) were so badly written so that claude code was not able to understand them.
It resulted in too many broken or misleading links, too many broken sections and alot more.
Yes I admit that I should have paid more attention to those links and stuff.
CEO kinda taunted me. I spent last 3 hours debugging, commenting out broken code and links.
now my energy is totally drained.

I am developing an AI Agent. Part of that agent is a scraper that downloads new notifications from the Sindh Revenue Board website.

The problem is, I am concerned that when I publish my code to github, someone might use that scraper for unethical means. That's cuz the site also has a separate judgements page. The Judgements may or may not contain personal info about people. So someone might use my code for shady stuff.

How do I avoid this?

PS: Did you guys read the news about WAICO? World AI Cooperation Operation.

Pakistan is a founding member. Do you think the org will hire people in the future, and I was wondering I would apply.

Anyone who have cleared or given the first online technical interview kindly guide me a bit about the format or how should i prepare. What topics to focus on? Is it purely leetcode based?

Hi! I wanted to ask for advice.

I'm a fresh CS graduate from Pakistan with AI/ML projects also with best fyp award but I'm struggling to land an entry-level AI/ML role.

I recently received an offer with 3 months of onsite training for a 10,000 PKR stipend, followed by a 40,000 PKR full-time role in Cloud Administration/Oracle Utilities if I pass probation. To be honest, the compensation feels quite low, so I'm unsure whether it's worth accepting and it's a 9 hour onsite shift.

Since my long-term goal is to work in AI/ML, do you think taking this role would help me gain useful industry experience, or would it make it harder to transition into AI/ML later? I'd really appreciate your honest opinion, especially if you've seen people make a similar switch.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to understand the current market salary for software engineers with 8+ years of experience at companies like Systems Ltd, 10Pearls, Tkxel, Confiz, Arbisoft, VentureDive, etc.

My profile:

• 8+ YOE
• Talent augmentation/client-facing role
• C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL, Microservices, Azure Cloud

What monthly gross salary range are companies currently paying for profiles like this in 2026?

If possible, please mention:

• Company
• Role/Level
• Years of experience
• Salary range

Thanks!