Said Abdul

Software Engineer | Biologist | Human Swiss Army Knife

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

Something striking looking at replies to my posts related to AI: a shocking number of "AI founders" and "AI influencers" don't understand the tech they post about all day.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Flooding on Mombasa road near JKIA causes major traffic snarl-up toward Nairobi CBD. #NewsFixNTV

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

Extremely proud moment for our people 🇰🇪

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

What Sabastian Sawe achieved last weekend in London is not merely a sporting triumph; it is a defining moment in the story of human endurance.

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@georgediano We have Kenyan Somalis native to Kenya it does not matter what you think about "nywele ngumu" term, posting stupidity while in your house far away from the conflict because you are offended does not pass for lack of Somalis integration, I mean your health minister is a Somali🤦

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

Respect

[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

Heroic nurse, Neda Salimi:
“At that moment, I prayed to God that if I was to be martyred, I would be given just a few moments to deliver these newborns to their mothers.”

We are proud of you, Ms. Salimi.

[Iran Embassy in Sierra Leone @IRANinSalone]

If selflessness had a face, it would look something like this.

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

The knowledge of my people shines even under current difficult conditions.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Laureen Maganga: What will happen when the 8% fuel VAT expires when the Middle East war is ongoing?

Some people ask if we are studying petroleum engineering to become pump attendants😅

#TheLastWordNTV @jamessmat @EricLatiff

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@IRANinSalone famously stupid is one under the belt 🤣😂 that said it's not like its a lie or something 😭😂

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@IRANinBULGARIA True beauty 😍 true heritage 😜 true history 🤩

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

I don't think I've ever been that mentally tired after a day of work.

AI is giving us superpowers. It makes us more productive than ever. And you never want to stop, because it's magic. You ship entire apps in a few days.

To get the best out of it and to be the most efficient, you're constantly multitasking, non-stop context-switching, never-stop-thinking.

At the end of a day like this you are mentally drained. And it's every day.

Superpowers come with a tax. Looking for write-offs.

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

AI is killing SWE jobs. This is the end.

While everyone is panicking, every single conversation I have with friends in Silicon Valley (SWEs and VCs) is the same: startups are moving faster, everyone is working more, everyone is trying to hire more. But they hire the right people for this new era: the ones who know how to build fast and efficiently with AI. And there are not enough of them.

It's not the end of software engineering. It's a paradigm shift. The panic, the doom headlines, the layoffs, the $IVG dumping... all of this is noise and will stop once everyone understands what is really happening.

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed. Yet.

[Iran In Hyderabad @IraninHyderabad]

If you resist, then you will conquer the peak.
#AyatollahKhamenei
#WarOnIran

[Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria @IRANinBULGARIA]

See why the #bridges were the issue🌉

[Embassy of Iran in Bulgaria @IRANinBULGARIA]

Behind the Anger of Iran’s Enemies – Iran’s Metro Stations🚇

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

You have played a crucial role in our lives, we are eternally grateful.

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

After 3 incredible years and 1.6M students later, my journey at ALX Africa has come to an end.

It has been a life-changing experience, during which I made a lot of friends, worked with an incredibly dedicated team, and met so many talented students.

A few numbers. We scaled from a few thousand students to 1.6M students on our platform. Students loved it and many of them took more than one course: 4M total! For the famous #ALX_SE Software engineering program, our SE students made an average of 2,000 commits and our checker reviewed 180M of their projects. That’s 2B lines of code… and that was before Claude Code. They actually wrote these themselves (unless Kimba said otherwise :)

A big thank you to all my SE team mates, I am so proud of what we have accomplished, and I will really miss you all. Thank you to Fred for the trust he put in me and always supporting my crazy new and disruptive ideas.

Thank you to my students. It was an honor to work with you, watch you struggle but relentlessly move forward, no matter what, until you got this job. To those who are still struggling finding this job, keep pushing forward. Don’t let go. You got this. You all have worked so hard and I am so proud of you. You are the greatest thing I've ever been part of and I can't wait to see what impact you will have on the world. It’s your turn to shine now, and hopefully for some of you to give back to the community whenever you are in a position to.

I hope you’ll keep sharing the good news with me when you get this internship, this job, or when you launch your company. These messages are everything to me. In any case, I’ll be watching you from afar, and you can count on me to continue answering all your LinkedIn and X messages.

Can’t conclude without ALX Africa’s signature: continue to “Do Hard Things”. Remember who you are, where you are coming from, and where you set out to go. I’ll see you there soon.

With love.

J

PS: Want to know what's next for me? Drop your email here: https://t.co/yTz7qTwTfU

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@ghadaa231 .

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@Nermeenalswaisi Yes we are @Nermeenalswaisi you are us and don't think for a moment we are not feeling your pain during this holy month 😭

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@Nermeenalswaisi Hi

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@Nermeenalswaisi 🥳

[Said Abdul @Asavaadika]

@nadaa01012 You will be okay, we are praying for you 🙏