Essays
On engineering, validation, and the mechanics of getting products bought.
Where Your Agent Lives
I moved the whole dev environment onto a server so any device could reach it. That bought reach, and cost something quieter.
Addicted to Problems That Matter
When solving becomes cheaper, the queue gets longer.
From Training to Inference: A Beginner's Map of Modern AI
The AI industry is not abandoning software. It is running into physics.
Machines Don't Have Taste
AI expands your reach within a domain. It does not give you the domain.
Thou Shalt Not Make a Machine in the Likeness of a Man's Mind
Why the AI age rewards thinkers, not prompters.
What Accumulates?
The only question that matters in an era where building is free.
The African Graveyard Is Different
African startups don't mostly die from bad ideas or wrong timing. They die from external forces colliding with fragile foundations.
The Graveyard of Correct Ideas
5,700 dead YC startups. Most of them had real ideas. That's the uncomfortable part.
Customer Learning: Stop Collecting Compliments
Jump straight to validation and you get lied to. Fake compliments are worthless.
From Code to Close
The market doesn't grade your code. It grades the conversation.
Building in Isolation Is Dead
Agentic coding commoditized building. The bottleneck is now distribution — and the builders who haven't figured that out are invisible.
When the Code Is Lying to You
Agentic coding moved the bottleneck from writing code to verifying behavior. Most people haven't caught up.
AEO Is Measuring the Wrong Thing
Most AEO tools are just mirrors. They show you where you're already strong and call it a score.
How I Use AI as a Solo Product Builder
I ship full products solo using 5 AI tools. Not theory — this is my actual daily workflow.
Why Builders Who Sell Win
Building is commoditized. Distribution is the moat. The engineers who understand this will eat everyone else's lunch.
The Most Dangerous Instinct in the AI Era
Your gut says build. Your gut is wrong. How I lost months to a hunch and what validation actually looks like.