Christopher Maduka

Technologist| Human| Traveller | UW Alum

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

Don’t let success get to your head
Don’t let failure get to your heart

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

Hasn’t tasted Nigerian jollof that’s why … 😂

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

Hope you Arsenal haters sleep well tonight 😶

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

Rich is what you see, wealth is what you don’t see

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

If you live in Toronto PLEASE go outside today

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

Allez les rouges 🔴 🍁

#fifa26

[Marc Emery @MarcScottEmery]

Our daughter’s tuition at Emily Carr is $45,000 over 4 years. I have paid taxes for this eventuality for over 50 years, I’m still working today at age 68. But sure, completely fund 500 Indian full time university spots with $100 million in 🇨🇦 citizen’s taxes.

[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.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Just pass this on. Don’t say anything.
Make sure you keep passing it on.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Brampton Visa King,

wearing a $300,000 Richard Mille,

shut down his account,

after @truckdriverpleb showed his video (getting 1.7 million views) that showed all the Visa’s he got approved.

I don’t know about you, but if my business got nearly 2 million views, I’d send Pleb a gift. 💝

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Elon Musk's new interview out now.

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

The restaurant where Speed ate Nigerian Jollof, which he loved has released a video of gratitude. This is beautiful ❤️

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

Do not forget this moment from Sadio Mané. He is a true leader. 🇸🇳👏

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

A reminder that it was Sadio Mané that told the Senegal players to return to the pitch after they left when Morocco were awarded a late penalty.

Who knows if Senegal would have gone onto win if it weren't for this leadership 👏

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Morocco's man of the match

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

@VividProwess @grok is this an ai video

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

THIS IS IT.

The exact 23 seconds where Canada was presented with an off ramp

to save itself.

We chose wrong.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Without religious freedom, Canada will cease to be Canada.

This must be stopped.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.

It's never meat to be this way, but the situation that very often arises is: It's strictly worse inside of Canada to be a Canadian company compared to a company headquartered everywhere else.

This is a bad situation, because the fruits of the subsidized labor will accrue to the wealth of other countries and not Canada. It's tax payer money invested into locking up scarce high tech talent in jobs where they no longer contribute to the Canadian economy directly. Why

[Priyanka Lakhara @codewithpri]

Tech might be the only place where the interview is harder than the actual job

[Christopher Maduka @itzmaduks]

"Africa has a gift for the world, the gift of saying that the individualism of the Westis debilitating The world is going to have to learn the fundamental lesson that we are made for harmony, for interdependence."

—DESMOND TUTU