Kefa Mutuma

Your average product guy. “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Tweets are mostly self notes.

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@Hartdrawss Stack

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@Suryanshti777 https://t.co/gXFqyquGdP

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@PrakashS720 https://t.co/gXFqyquGdP

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@_vmlops Thank You for making it free.

[Peter Kazanjy @Kazanjy]

This is why founder led sales is so critical.

You can’t abstract your sales motion into another mind (an AE etc) until you’ve done the loop, successfully, dozens of times.

Each loop you’re filing burrs off the motion and figuring out what actually matters.

Strategy comes from tactics.

[Matt Stockton @mstockton]

An interesting aspect of these models and foundation model companies:

- Their internal teams know *a ton* about how to best use these models
- They are publishing things (e.g. skills) that let you essentially leverage that knowledge for free
- You should never really 'hand craft' a context at this point. It's much better for you to 'find the existing' bootstrapped context (or context generator) and use that instead, or have the model 'prompt it' out of you (e.g. AskUserQuestion tool all day)
- The skill-creator skill is a perfect example of this. It's essentially leading-edge knowledge of people *at foundation labs knowing what works* just available to you, for free
- It's kind of weird, but there's actually just incredible 'alpha' by finding existing skills that work versus trying to do your own thing.
- With the right set of skills loaded, I would make a bet that a large proportion (maybe a majority) of white-collar work could be accomplished by purely typing the key '/' followed by a word into a terminal, over and over again
- It still helps to have good taste, know what good looks like, take incremental approaches, and just generally be curious -- but the shape of what it even means 'to work' has totally shifted - and it's going to continue to shift even faster than it is now.

It's certainly weird, but we are here.

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@Kenyans @SakajaJohnson Going down as the most incompetent governor of Nairobi

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@rryssf Research

[Paweł Huryn @PawelHuryn]

Yesterday, a PM asked me about the #1 AI skill to learn in 2026.

My answer: building production-ready AI agents.

Most PMs are still stuck at the “prompt engineering” layer. They’re chaining instructions and tweaking wording.

But the real leverage comes from understanding how to build agentic systems that can reliably reason, plan, retrieve context, take actions, and even operate without step-by-step instructions.

Here’s why:

1. The the true autonomy has just become possible (GPT-5/GPT-5.1).

2. Building agents forces you to understand reasoning loops, tool orchestration, context engineering, and the real patterns and constraints that separate demos from agents in production.

3. It makes you 10x more productive because instead of doing tasks, you start designing systems that do them for you.

4. It also makes you a far better PM because you stop thinking in “features” and start thinking in “autonomous systems” — which is exactly where every AI-native product is going.

On Friday, I’m hosting a free live session with Product Faculty where I’ll walk you through how to build an autonomous AI agent from scratch.

You’ll learn:

• The architecture behind modern AI agents.
• How to turn a workflow into a fully autonomous agent.
• How PMs can design agent behaviors without coding.
• The biggest mistakes PMs and engineers make when building agents.
• A live walkthrough of building a working agent from zero.

If you want to learn the skill that will define the next decade of product roles, this is the place to start (sign up for $0): https://t.co/v7M6xPi9Ee

(800 AI PMs subscribed before I even announced it.)

Hope that helps.

Do you know someone who can benefit from it?

[Kartik @code_kartik]

bored?

build your own git:
https://t.co/NDHnNqclw3

build your own database:
https://t.co/v7qTdZfvJ0

build your own redis:
https://t.co/sgr0jLN5im

build your own neural networks:
https://t.co/IkuaN9X1Rj

build your own os:
https://t.co/UPUJsfGYBF

I can keep going....

[Nzisa Kiilu @nzisakiilu]

Humble brag…They won’t believe a little girl from Kenya built the orchestration engine for this, but I did!

[Md Riyazuddin @riyazmd774]

Notice how logos recently all look the same?

Not because it makes them look better...

But because of THIS psychological trick that manipulates your brain.

That's why Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb are all doing it.

Here's the full explanation:🧵-

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@vickinuthia God speed 🙏🏾

[Daily Conversations 🗣️ @TheDialectic360]

@TheCharlesIsidi African startups don’t need to reject Silicon Valley models—they need to adapt them. Scale can come from both mass adoption (M-Pesa) & high-value clients (Access Bank). Venture capital isn’t evil, but it needs smart execution. The key? Adapt, don’t copy blindly.

[Wọlé O™ @WoleOgundare]

@TheCharlesIsidi Excellent analysis.

Let me deepen it a bit further with a framework - the John Mullins seven domains assessment model for entrepreneurs.

You can’t miss the sweet spot if you use this framework diligently🥂

[Chukwuedozie Nwa Charlie @TheCharlesIsidi]

The reason why your regular business will not onboard or pay you your fees is because they don’t see value in your offering other than your rent seeking markups

Get a business to do 5x their normal revenue because of your product or service and they will be your friends for life

[Rotimi Best @rotimi_best]

the products that really take off through open source solve a fundamental business/developer problem

@calcom - time/scheduling
@polar_sh - payment
@supabase - database
@documenso - signing
@dubdotco - links
@unkeydev - api security
@formbricks - surveys
@triggerdotdev - background jobs
@twentycrm - CRM
@inboxzero_ai - email
@appflowy - workspace (notion alternative)
@cap - screen recording
@maybe - finance
@planepowers - project management

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@swamukonya @DavidNdii @BD_Africa Love your way of questioning

[Kefa Mutuma @KefaMutuma_]

@DavidNdii @MMabeya @NdunguWainaina Seems to be the only language leaders understand. Respect is a 2 way street . Remember how rude and condescending many of the so called leaders had become. Bulk stops with the Top leader.