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if you vibe coded your own personal website / portfolio (not a business), share them here with me i like to see people’s tastes

@OduorACaroline This is a hard but necessary lesson to learn.

Unpopular opinion: Not every client deserves to be taken on. Some will cost you time, peace, and reputation. Learning to say “no” is just as important as knowing the law if not more.

Two things: 1. I handle every instruction with diligence and a strong sense of responsibility. 2. I prioritise honesty with clients, even when it means advising that legal services are unnecessary.

@folahshade Love to see it. Keep it up!

What I contribute to the legal profession is that I refuse to undervalue it. I do not charge cheaply, and if a client thinks my fee is too high, I let them know they are free to go elsewhere, but they will likely find that no serious lawyer will do the work for less. I believe lawyers should be respected, and part of that respect is valuing our time, knowledge, and skill appropriately.

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@WhiteHouse @MissDiagnosis @NASA When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? (Psalm 8:3-4)

@MkenyaMzi This reductive argument will die in the next 2 years or so. As it is the case with anything else, you are finding the worst vibe coders and using them as a benchmark. You're right in pointing out the fundamentals, but wrong in assuming vibe coders can't or won't consider them.

(Vibe Coding Grotesque my humble submission ) Why in the AI era, software is now more bloated than a Kenyan politician’s campaign promises I’ve been watching this AI revolution unfold from Nairobi, and I have to say it straight. Modern software is bloated like never before. Bloated with unnecessary dependencies, over-engineered features, and layers of complexity that make apps slower, more expensive to run, and a nightmare to maintain. The main driver is vibe coding — that “just describe what you want and let the AI spit out the code” style that’s exploding with tools like Cursor, Claude, and Grok. Back in the day, choosing a tech stack wasn’t random. You picked LAMP for solid server work, MERN when you needed dynamic web apps, or Go plus PostgreSQL when performance and reliability were non-negotiable. You understood the trade-offs: speed versus ease, scalability versus simplicity, security versus quick shipping. You knew why Redis made sense for certain caching or when Kubernetes was actually overkill for a small user base. Today a vibe coder fires up the AI and types: “Build me a simple todo app that vibes like Twitter.” What comes out is a monster: Next.js stuffed with 47 npm packages (many already outdated or conflicting), Redis thrown in for five tiny tasks, full microservices, blockchain “just in case,” and a Kubernetes setup for future scaling. The end result? A basic todo app with a 180MB bundle size that takes eight seconds to load on a normal Android phone. That’s not progress. That’s technical debt on steroids. This is exactly why the classic software engineering principles that built reliable systems are making vibe coders look extremely clueless these days. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) gets ignored. Clean focused code gets replaced by massive god functions that try to do everything because the AI just kept adding more vibes. DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is forgotten. New prompts generate duplicate logic instead of smart refactoring, so the same code repeats everywhere. YAGNI (You Ain’t Gonna Need It) is thrown out the window. “What if we add AI plus Web3 plus quantum later?” So they build everything upfront, bloating the project from day one. SOLID principles? Single Responsibility is a joke. One service ends up juggling auth, payments, notifications, and random extras. Performance, Big O notation, and security (OWASP) get no attention. No real profiling, no memory leak checks, no proper threat modeling. Just generate, ship, and hope. It mirrors Kenyan politics perfectly. Mike Sonko would roll up with big promises of world-class digital systems, flashy transformations, and game-changing infrastructure for the city. Massive hype, zero substance. When you looked inside? Pure bloat, scandals, and systems that barely functioned. Governor Waititu promising to relocate the rivers for grand projects , over-engineered on paper, bloated in execution, and full of problems on the ground. And then there’s the blunt reality check we need in tech. The person who actually calls out bullshit without fear is Edwin Sifuna , he doesn’t hold back, even if it means clashing with everyone. That’s the kind of unfiltered honesty tech needs right now, because this AI-generated code slop is exactly like those overpromised political projects that collapse under their own weight once reality hits. The devs who saw this mess coming early have been dropping sharp criticisms for a while. @shadrac_matata pointed out the difference clearly: “For some reason, you care about the ‘why’ because you already understand the fundamentals. A junior vibecoder prompts for dopamine.” He’s also joked about vibe coders wanting to build things like a “CRB for pishori babes,” showing how surface-level thinking leads to unnecessary complexity. @nut3case has been direct after dealing with messy work. He’s called out “vibe coded” sites that look flashy but lack real value, zero trust, and proper personality. He’s also talked about having to fix “Indian slop” and warned that a lot of “slop talks” show up when people skip the real work. @glennotiende has stayed consistent on this. He’s said that even after trying Claude for days, laymen still can’t build groundbreaking apps without fundamentals. “Claude cannot generate my code base in a single prompt. It needs me to guide it.” He’s questioned how someone without deeper understanding would debug when the AI fails, joking that they’d just call their five junior devs to take pictures instead. And @StanleyMasinde keeps reminding people of the basics that vibe coders ignore. He talks about designing for failure at every level of the stack, using structured tracing for real observability when debugging latency, and focusing on simple, maintainable code that actually ships and serves users. This is the hidden downside of the AI boom. Vibe coding shines for quick prototypes and experiments. But for real production software? Without those core principles, you get slow, buggy, expensive-to-maintain codebases riddled with security holes. It’s like assembling a coalition government in code: too many conflicting dependencies, unnecessary layers, and when it crashes, the blame game begins. The solution is straightforward but unpopular in the current hype: return to basics. AI is a powerful accelerator, not a substitute for real engineering discipline. Vibe coders need to learn what a proper tech stack actually means and why it mattered. Understand the “why” behind every decision. Profile your code. Refactor without mercy. Ship clean and reliable, not just clever and complex. Fundamentals over vibes. Always. If you’re building software in Kenya or anywhere, what’s your experience with this growing bloat? Have you taken over a codebase that was pure AI-generated chaos? Or are you still deep in the vibe wave? Drop your thoughts below. And feel free to tag a vibe coder who needs this reality check.

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@george__agai And those mini apps are terrible. 1000 shillings says there's some Chinese involved.

Not hating or anything but I think these guys are trying too hard to build a super app, nobody's opening the mpesa app to play games bro

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No man this is not great design. This is just AI slop. Could be a thing you start your design on and now you take it manually and improve. Spend 2-3 days on it. That’s how you do a great design. Not with 2 sentences and 2 minutes wait time. Looks really bad. I can obtain better even with Gemini free version.

gemini 3.1 hallucinates too much it looks strong on many q&a benchmarks, but it still struggles with complex prompts and agentic tasks in the west, i think the AI race now looks split across two fronts: enterprise: chatgpt vs claude consumer: chatgpt vs gemini vs grok

@Kenyans No one saw this coming at all. 👀

President Ruto's former lawyer, Court of Appeal Judge Justice Katwa Kigen, is among 5 shortlisted for Supreme Court job

@luhyaheat I mean we have already copy pasted GDPR and the EU AI Act. What's one more thing we blindly copy from the EU.

lol what? Literally no transition period What’s the real motive behind this? Because this makes no sense.

@StandardKenya What is the citation for the decision?

Court rules that a person can’t be committed to civil jail for failing to pay a debt, in Sh788,000 dispute; Justice Nyakundi says it’s unfair to punish someone for lacking money.

@googledevs Thanks. I'll be sure to try it next week when my tokens reset. 😁

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