I’m a penetration tester in Nigeria.
My job is to hack companies legally before the bad guys do.
Here are 5 things I’ve found that would genuinely scare you.
This resonates. Built something from scratch with zero mentorship, no funding, just late nights and trial and error nobody sees the eighteen failed versions before the one that finally clicks. The Nigerian tech space has an unreasonable amount of grit hiding behind quiet builders. Amen to that.
Real talk, and I respect you naming it instead of just riding it. I’ve noticed the same pull approving/rejecting AI output all day is a different muscle than actually building. Worth protecting time to write something from scratch occasionally, just to keep that part of the brain warm.