Babatunde E. Daramola

Software Engineer (Backend Engineer) | AI Engineer

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

After using Laravel Fluent FFmpeg for a few weeks, I'm excited to release some major updates!

Added automatic GOP/keyframe settings and a brand new directory processing feature.

https://t.co/ptRS4Jb4su

👇 Thread with highlights

#Laravel #PHP #FFmpeg #OpenSource

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

If it's been a long time since you've used Laravel/PHP, you should try them again now. PHP 8+ brings significant performance and language improvements, and modern Laravel releases make building fast, reactive apps much easier.

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

@jeffrey_way In fact, it's more work.

[AI Highlight @AIHighlight]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. 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 a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

Stressed teams will build chaotic products
Calm teams will build clear, thoughtful products

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Morning Bathrobe Rant: AI out-codes you; deal with it.

[Povilas Korop | Laravel Courses Creator & Youtuber @PovilasKorop]

Problem I noticed with AI coding.

LLM generates the code usually with a single approach, but in coding there are usually multiple approaches for the same problem.

This means that developers wouldn't even know that there are alternative approaches.

I will admit it happened to me a few times: I didn't even know/think there was "another way" until someone in the YouTube comments reminded me of it. Shame, right?

Maybe other approaches are better for that specific situation for long-term maintainability of the project.

Sometimes it has deeper implications: the model continues generating more code based on existing patterns in the code that were generated by previous prompts, so then it turns into a spiral.

One possible solution is to use plan mode for anything more significant or anything that could get into the crossroads of potential approaches or solutions or packages to use.

Even then that does not guarantee that the LLM would even think about alternative approaches instead of going with the single one it has chosen.

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

When a piece of code generated by AI agent falls short of my expectations, I consistently intervene, and this strategy has proven successful for me.

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

For an early-to-growth-stage product, speed of iteration matters more than architectural elegance.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

After reading the book "Apple in China," I learned that a key reason for China's current manufacturing dominance is a strategy by the Xi-led CCP called "Made in China 2025." It wasn't a mere wish, but a goal to be achieved, and all sectors in the country worked towards it and achieved it.

Their goal was to be a manufacturing superpower by 2049, but I think they are already well ahead of schedule. They learn from everyone and offer incentives to global players to manufacture products in China.

Most African countries lack this plan because the leaders cannot think beyond 4 or 5-year election cycles. They are also very self-indulgent, and there is no national planning. Nigeria is a disgrace because we have not been able to carry out a proper population census in 20 years. You can't plan when you can't measure.

We keep lying to ourselves and everyone else about unemployment and inflation numbers just to borrow more. This is why I get upset when I hear that tech or AI cannot help us achieve progress. We need tech and AI to gather data and understand it, so we can build.

The Nigerian government and others in Africa may not have a coherent strategy for dominance, but it doesn't mean that the private sector should wait until things are perfect. One key takeaway from that book was that there is widespread corruption in China, but there is also an overwhelming sense of national pride. Huawei and others were able to take on Apple and win until Trump and others came into the picture.

Huawei is still building great stuff and hiring a lot of people. We need our African versions of Huawei, Foxconn, and others, but we MUST build with the cards we are dealt rather than waiting for conditions to be ideal. I keep learning new things about China daily, and I remain in awe.

We MUST look East and not West.

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

Crossed 500 million downloads on laravel/framework 📈

[Ravi Kasaudhan (Rudra) @ravikasaudhann]

No JavaScript = No real AI apps.
Learn these → beginner phase over 🧠

• Variables → let vs const
• Data Types → string, number, boolean, null, undefined
• Equality → == vs ===
• Functions → normal vs arrow ()=>{}
• Scope → global, block, function
• Hoisting → why code works before declaration
• Conditionals → if / else / switch
• Loops → for / while / for…of
• Arrays → map, filter, reduce
• Objects → dot vs bracket access
• Destructuring → {a} & [x]
• Spread & Rest → …
• Callbacks → functions inside functions
• Promises → then / catch / finally
• Async/Await → write async like sync
• Closures → memory superpower
• this keyword → context decides value
• Event Loop → JS isn’t actually synchronous
• Error Handling → try / catch
• Modules → import / export
• Browser APIs → fetch, localStorage, sessionStorage

Learn → You can read 90% of JS code
Learn → You can start building AI tools
Master → You can write production

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

@benjamincrozat The room for improvement can never be filled up.

[LEYE @leyeConnect]

Have you ever wondered why the Lord’s Prayer states:

“…give us this day our daily bread”

and not

“…give us the wisdom to create a baking factory”

It is so that we live with a remembered dependency, rightly oriented toward where sustenance truly comes from.

The heart is trained (daily) to rely solely on its Maker such that if/when the baking factory happens, the soul still knows where bread truly comes from.

[Punyapal Shah @MrPunyapal]

The wait is over 😎

[Sam Adeyemi @sam_adeyemi]

I am grateful to God for the blessing of seeing another birthday. I have enjoyed blessings too numerous to list, especially the salvation of my soul and the opportunity to add value to many lives. I am truly grateful. 🙏

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

This is where @laravelphp also wins, every time I have the liberty to choose for teams, l just tell them to use laravel with react.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

I think people are sleeping a bit on how much Ruby on Rails + Claude Code is a *crazy unlock* - I mean Rails was designed for people who love syntactic sugar, and LLMs are sugar fiends.

[Slimfit @iSlimfit]

Leadership and Management Masterclass in less than 3 minutes. 👏

If you lead a team at work or you’re aspiring to, you should watch this video by Ibikun Awosika.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

ChatGPT estimates the number of birds alive in the world at 50 billion. Jesus said God feeds them all.

This meticulous providence does not tax or distract him.

It proves his attentiveness and care as a Father to us his children.

“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” Matthew 6:26

[Babatunde E. Daramola @RiteChoice23]

@MrPunyapal @JaiveerChavda For me, I use actions for everything because I see actions as single-method service classes. This approach saves me from the mental stress of constantly deciding where a piece of logic should live, and it keeps my codebase simple, consistent, and easy to reason about.

[John Rush @johnrushx]

I've tested all ( 82 😵‍💫 ) Vibe Coding Agents & IDEs

(Cladue Code, Emergent, Anima, Zed, Factory, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, Vercel, Rork, Warp, Figma, Cline, Vibe Coder & more)

Video demos & my notes for each: