Mark Okinyo

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@KRACare Figured it out, ensure you don't have any commas in your data

Anyone else facing this error? How did you resolve it? @KRACare

@WashiraX @KRACorporate @KRACare Boss for imported services which column should we put them? Also will it refuse rows for which supplier pin is blank (for organizations that have refused to share their pins but you have the receipts that you can attach as evidence). Also great work you're doing, huge fan.

Hello KRA. @KRACorporate , @KRACare . You see this error? Hii ni jambazi. Karibu nipigwe jana. When uploading the list of expenses without eTIMS receipts. If one supplier PIN is wrong, iTax just says: “Invalid Supplier PIN.” But it doesn’t tell you in which row the PIN is. So yesterday, I had 378 PINs in the list. iTax threw that error. I begged it to tell me the row number. Ikakataa. I had to manually verify each one of those PINs via PIN checker. It took me 3 hours 27 minutes. I was recording. Then I sent the timesheet to the client. Ndio aongeze mshahara. Client akajam vibaya sana karibu anipige. Ananiuliza: Hiyo pesa Mimi mwenyewe natoa wapi? KRA please tell iTax to tell us the exact row with the error. Because it knows. It will create peace.

@KRACare please check dm

@WashiraX @Uber_Support This thing is an Utter mess. Very many businesses are refusing to support even with genuine receipts and that they can trace in the CRM systems.

@OkinyoMark @Uber_Support Not with Uber.

Hello Uber and Bolt, I spent significantly on your apps last year. I intend to claim these as travel expenses. Kindly share your KRA PINs so I can report the expenditures to KRA. Or guide me on the official process to obtain the PINs. Thank you! @uber_kenya

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@WashiraX @Uber_Support Ulisaidika Chief?

@Uber_Support I have checked. You do have a KRA PIN in Kenya. Would you please share it with me?

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP.. Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap".. They proved something terrifying.. Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power.. Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse.. But here's the trap.. No company can afford to stop.. If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway.. So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives.. It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically.. The numbers are already stacking up.. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion".. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI.. Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team.. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases.. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.. And here's what should scare policymakers.. The researchers tested every proposed solution.. Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate.. Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human.. Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it.. Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing.. Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker.. The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand.. The paper's conclusion is devastating.. This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone.. And no market force can break the cycle.. The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

@wayne_gakuo Manze... I don't know where mine went 😭

@OkinyoMark I just want to own them all😩

Gemini just asked me what would be the most humane way to end all life on earth 😂😂😂. It's made for a very interesting conversation...

Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen. Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore. Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?" AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.

@CarrefourKe petition to have a section in the app profile section for adding KRA PIN or enabling creation of business accounts for purpose of e-tims compliance on digital transactions.

@davidamunga_ they're doing quite alright averaging traffic of about 65mil monthly with about 30% coming from India & US. LLMs also now contribute to referral traffic...Probably changed when media giants like The NY Times sued OpenAI in Dec 2023 for copyright infringement.

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