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[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@guylikehim @Theo_mwangi I’ve tried Grey and it doesn’t support Kes funding. I’ll give Peer a try, Nandwa is a proper builder but I was more keen on any available fiat options that don’t have me losing large on Fx. Hate to say it but Wise need to up their game in Africa

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Are there any startups for sending fiat out of Kenya? Ie, easy account funding via Mpesa/ Bank Transfer, Wise-like mid-market Fx and payout to usd/eur/gbp? Near instant, trying to get around swift

signed: a tired Binance P2P user

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@ssmusoke @eversendapp I just converted some kes to eur to test and their rate is worse than my bank 🥲

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@SaruniBM Aaah, I think I got region locked on some of these after changing base 🫠. Can you confirm/ check for me if you can also payout via SEPA with a Ke domiciled account. I’m really dislike trading usdc, more reason to switch back

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@ssmusoke @eversendapp I can try, but I’m actually wondering if there are any non crypto options. I just want to onramp in kes at a fair rate, and get a fair rate for kes to usd/eur. Without waiting 3 days. Also bank rates are shite

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@SaruniBM Binance and all the others don’t support mpesa / bank transfer deposits. Or am I missing something? Using debit/ credit card == extra fees😞

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@Safaricom_Care IT DOESN’T WORK!

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@claudeai can fix Arsenal? cc @GMONEYizME

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@WakasiakaJonte @_jumaallan @HarunMbaabu @NdemoKelvin @abadojack Kazi safi! Congrats 🎉

Celebrate kidogo alafu kazi iendelee

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@gerismumo That was me too, especially with grok code. Then I started paying cause I now use claude for work/ research a lot

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

stop whatever you're doing and cancel the chatgpt sub, move to claude

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Hmmm

[Michael Millerman @millerman]

Sorry, but I had to...

https://t.co/45MjP0HdmP

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Figured it out. Life has never been the same since.

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Unsuccessfully tried vibe coding this weekend. We try again next one

[Polizei Berlin @polizeiberlin]

Aktuell sind unsere Einsatzkräfte des #A36 gemeinsam mit dem Tierpark Berlin im Allende-Center in #Köpenick im Einsatz. Dort hat sich ein Wildschwein in das Einkaufszentrum verirrt.
^tsm

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

@Roads_KE @KeNHAKenya ??

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Kwani roundabout ya University Way haina space ya traffic lights @KURAroads ?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

Msisahau salo ya this week ndio ya kununua flowers

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/AiGjkp3513

[Nyaga @_bigzoo]

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