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the only source source of truth is the live product.

I used to work 12 hours a day. But thanks to AI, I now work 16.

The idea behind why Africa must unite, entirely stripped of wrath and politic is: don’t be stupid!

Since the 1999 Lusaka Peace Accords, more than 10 peace agreements on the DRC conflict have collapsed because of the DRC itself. Let’s walk through it 🧵 🔹 In Nairobi, M23 was barred from dialogue between the DRC Government and other armed groups because it was labeled “foreign.” 🔹 In December 2023, President Tshisekedi expelled the EAC Regional Force after it had secured over 80% of M23-controlled areas. The problem? It wasn’t “offensive enough.” 🔹 In December 2024 in Luanda, the peace process between Rwanda and the DRC collapsed after Kinshasa refused to engage in dialogue with AFC/M23. 🔹 A few months later in Doha, dialogue with the same actors was suddenly acceptable. Interesting…🤨 🔹 In 2025, after intense diplomatic efforts, the Washington and Doha agreements were signed. Yet key commitments were not implemented and bombardments continued, including against Banyamulenge civilians. 🔹 Since the June 2025 Peace Agreement, attacks on villages in North and South Kivu have persisted under the pretext of fighting M23. 🔹 In South Kivu, Banyamulenge communities have been pushed into remote areas with severely restricted access to markets, schools, grazing land and healthcare. Meanwhile, the existential threat posed to Rwanda by the Kinshasa-backed FDLR has not diminished. During the fall of Goma in January 2026, FARDC/FDLR elements attacked Rwanda, leaving 16 people dead and 161 civilians injured. International reports continue to document integration, financing and logistical support, alongside a coalition that includes FARDC, Burundian forces, mercenaries, FDLR, Wazalendo and other militias. So here’s the bottom line: peace is possible with political will and good faith. Protecting Rwandans is the JOB of the RDF. Any serious analysis of this region has to honestly assess the role of DRC Gov/FARDC and those backing them too.

Just curious. Once you bookmark something, how often do you go back and look at it? My retrieval percentage is in the low single digits. Wondering if I’m an outlier - or if bookmarking is simply aspirational for all of us.

@NuruFreddy Codex too

ngl Claude is actually scary now

Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make. paulgraham.com/taste.html

A habit worth building: Tell people the specific impact they had on you. Not "thanks for everything." But, “the way you handled that meeting taught me confidence." Generic praise is forgotten. Most people have no idea what they do well. Show them.

One of my favorite use cases for Nano Banana Pro, Google’s latest image model, is recreating historical black-and-white photos in color. It’s prone to errors like any model, but it lends a realism to the past that used to be tedious to achieve. Might build a tool around this.

me watching the llm do the job i used to love

Horrifying banger

Mathematics: The rise of the machines youtu.be/oOYcPkBaotg?si…

“Yi Yi isn’t hard to put into words because it’s one of the best movies ever made, it’s one of the best movies ever made because it’s hard to put into words." — David Ehrlich youtube.com/watch?v=mjqjV0…

Thoughts about the future of UI that excite me: 1. Complex web interfaces are dead in the long term. They are solving human perception limitations that will no longer be relevant. No one will want to learn how to use complex UIs in the future. If this is your app's differentiator, move fast. 2. Personal agents will win over dedicated app agents. People are getting used to agentic experiences, so building a dedicated agent for your app may *seem* like a good idea, but this is just a "faster horses" solution. No one will browse to 4 different websites to use 4 different agents. They'll use their own single agent and won't care how your websites even look. 3. The new frontend will be UI snippets that will be returned from MCP servers to be rendered in your personal agent. The agent will control the experience, and will display only the specific visualization or interactivity piece that you need from every app. There are fascinating questions there around how the apps will keep their brand in this new world, but without clashing with the agent's own experience. I'm most excited to work on that part. 4. If you're reading this and thinking "there is no way I'm giving up on dashboards" - you're still thinking like a project manager and not like the US president. The president doesn't look at dashboards, he has helpers who look at them and extract only what he needs to know. All visualization is a way of answering questions and make sure you're not missing anything. Eventually it's either "this is going well" or "this requires attention". Once we'll establish trust with the agents capabilities, we'll rely on them like on personal assitants, they'll extract this data, act on it and will defer to us *only* when a human decision or attention is specifically needed. This will happen faster than we think. Try to use Jira's Claude integration for few days, and its "regular" web UI will start to seem unnecessary bloated. In few years the idea of navigating to dozens of websites to manually use dozens of different interfaces will seem very primitive. Personally I'm very bullish on this direction, and have been for the past months. I come from a long career in web development, so naturally there are mixed emotions for me seeing a decade of web UI development concepts evolving into something new. But I'm very excited about it, and very lucky to be at the forefront of it.

Excellent read. thefp.com/p/how-intellec…

Best song in a generation. Symbolism unmatched youtube.com/watch?v=OmYO3t… @bigvinxi Great work!

"We can, and must, pursue alternative approaches to AI development that are more adaptive, more resilient, and broadly accessible to the global community." — @YejinChoinka

During my PhD, my advisor told me to not use the library’s computer to find the book I wanted, because the act of browsing row after row in the stacks to find it was how original connections were made.