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@liwucodes Nd'e kuli Joe.

Kondi could mean Chikondi. Or Kondwani. How do you guys know which is which?

Tobi built the original Shopify codebase himself in 2004. Then he spent 20 years doing what every founder-CEO does: slowly drifting into meetings, board decks, and strategy docs while the thing that made him dangerous collected dust. 94 commits in 2024. That’s a CEO who codes occasionally on weekends. 833 in 2025. That’s someone who found a way back in. 957 in 45 days of 2026. That’s a builder again. The pattern repeating across tech right now is something nobody predicted about AI. Everyone focused on which jobs AI would replace. The bigger story is which skills AI is resurrecting. Founders who stopped coding a decade ago are shipping features. Executives who used to need a team of three to prototype an idea are doing it over lunch. The distance between “I have an idea” and “I built the thing” collapsed from weeks to hours. Tobi’s been porting his own tools across languages using Claude as a compiler, publishing CLI utilities, and writing open source on his personal GitHub. The CEO of a $150B company is personally shipping to package managers on weekends. That’s the part worth paying attention to. AI gave Tobi back the part of the job he loved and had to abandon to scale. The best founders were always builders first. The ones who drifted away didn’t want to. They just ran out of hours. Now they have the hours back.

I love this visual:

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@sama We are in a circle rn

@Suhail ... if he's good at the multiple jobs.

@Suhail He should be a consultant or start [a || couple of] startup(s) @soyapi/post/DLo26wwIjJn?xmt=AQF0ai3hbBtml7-REJHlzs0E5VBcPqmz3FNMFYWNa1rnuA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.com/@soyapi/post/D…

Soham has reached out. His primary question: “Asking this as genuine advice since I do really love what I do, have I completely sabotaged my career? What can I do to improve my situation? I am also happy to come clean” Vox Populi, Vox Dei

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Great initiative for future of Mother Malawi 🇲🇼

@dhh When the simplest tool is also the fastest!

FactoryBot is the quickest way to kill your test suite performance with Rails. Our HEY suite runs in <2 mins on a modern Linux machine with over 30,000 assertions. Against a real database! The secret? Rails Fixtures! They're setup once, txn-wrapped for resets, and insanely fast.

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AI-powered software engineering is still in its infancy, but is surely growing. Fast!

"If an agent is used to generate a quick prototype and validate it with tests, that’s coding – not engineering." serce.me/posts/2025-31-…

@czue Delegating to AI; hard decision for solo engineers. I wonder if it's a no brainer to managers who already delegate most of the coding to other engineers.

Building a product in the era of vibes.

@liwucodes Great as long as we use and don't abuse. 🎵 Paja "nthawi zina timalephera, kugwiritsa [bwino] zinthuzi, ndipo izo zimaoneka ngati zoipa" 🎵

Can’t remember the last time I wrote any code by hand 🤯 it’s all English that generates working code these days 😬

The new normal in software engineering

Non-technical founders after building their first apps with cursor:

Real world example of a small agile team shipping world class software. See post and replies. Amazing! And they will do much more with AI.