Jesse Invent ⚡

Software Engineer | Technical Lead - Crypto/Fintech payments systems | Applied ML | MBA (AI) candidate

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

Spoke about scaling Bitcoin payments at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025, at Mauritius 🚀

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

AI will not make engineers more productive.

It will make bad engineering faster.

Here's the pattern I see:

A junior engineer asks an AI to write the simulation code.
The AI writes something plausible.
The engineer doesn't fully understand it.
The simulation runs.
The results look reasonable.
The engineer ships it.

Nobody caught the edge case in the boundary conditions.
Nobody questioned whether the model assumptions were valid.
Nobody held the equations long enough to develop intuition.

Speed without understanding is not productivity.
It's technical debt with better syntax.

The engineers who use AI well are the ones who already know enough to catch its mistakes.
The ones who don't know enough use it as a crutch and call it skill.

AI raises the floor for bad engineers.
It raises the ceiling for great ones.

The gap between them is getting wider, not smaller.

Where are you on that spectrum? Be honest.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Being able to hear better information and change your opinion on something is a great human trait.

[Tosin Olugbenga @TosinOlugbenga]

Sometimes as a developer, it’s worth trying something new.

Other times, it’s better to stick with tools and technologies you already know especially when reliability, delivery speed, and maintainability matter most.

Learning new technologies expands your knowledge, broadens your perspective, and can become invaluable when future opportunities or challenges arise.

That said, it’s also important not to become too attached to a single tool or framework. Technology evolves quickly, and continuous growth is part of being an effective engineer.

The key is knowing when to experiment and when to leverage experience.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

Guys, always stand up to shake hands. If the other person is older than you, it shows respect. If they are younger than you, it shows humility. Either way, you win. People who sit to shake hands are bad-mannered.

When you shake hands, do not just offer a limp hand... even to an elder! Make sure that your handshake is firm. It shows confidence and fitness.

Then make sure that you look into the person’s eyes. It shows interest, attention and confidence. Don’t look away furtively like a liar and a thief!

Remember, as a man, there should be nothing limp or flaccid about you. You should always be polite and gracious, quietly confident (not arrogant, that is for inferior men) and erect. Always erect!

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[SAFO NYAME HERBAL THERAPEUTICS @safonyameherbal]

If you're proud of your Dad. Retweet this.

[PsudoMike 🇨🇦 @PsudoMike]

Everyone is reading this as layoffs.

Here's what they're missing.

Microsoft isn't shrinking. They're rebalancing. The people leaving are being replaced by AI-native roles, infra roles, and platform roles that didn't exist 2 years ago.

If you're an engineer, this is your signal to skill up, not shut down.

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

Another week to be world class 🚀

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

@Joe_brendan_ The GOAT 🙌

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

Good read:

https://t.co/ROchJwVwkM

[Debbie @__deb_by]

For as long as you breathe, don’t you dare give up on yourself.

If strategy 1 doesn’t work, go back to the drawing board and re-strategize!

Whatever you do, make sure you make it! Be relentless when it comes to your goals.

And don’t wait for external validation or support, be your own greatest supporter! Gas yourself up till you’re so gassed & almost looking delusional

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

A Nigerian fintech founder raised $2M, built a slick app, onboarded 40,000 users.

Then CBN, NDPC, and FCCPC came knocking at the same time.

He had no licence. no DPO. no KYC tier structure. no breach policy.

The company didn’t survive 2024.

Here’s every rule you must know before you build:

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

@commando_skiipz This is me everyday 😅

Thank God for AI

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

— Steve Jobs

[The_Bearded_Dr_Sina @the_beardedsina]

I was invited to speak at a National conference.

After I finished, I got an ovation and made many connections.

Right there, I was booked for 2 speaking National conferences again.

One thing I learnt, Keep bringing Value and your talents will make you stand before the World.

[Arinze Odira @CaptainArinze]

A man not being able to protect and provide for his family is a very dark and sad place to be. I pray that God blesses the hands of any man struggling to provide for his family.

[Founder Mode @Founder_Mode_]

Elon Musk was asked why his companies move faster than anyone else.

His answer:

"I'm constantly addressing the limiting factor. Whatever the limiting factor is on speed, I'm going to tackle that. If capital is the limiting factor, I'll solve for capital. If it's not the limiting factor, I'll solve for something else."

He then said something most managers never figure out:

"If something is going really well and making good progress, there's no point in me spending time on it."

"The irony is if something's going really well, they don't see much of me. But if something is the limiting factor, they'll see a lot of me."

He spends his time entirely on whatever is blocking the next step.

Not on what's interesting. Not on what he's best at. But on whatever is the bottleneck right now.

Most leaders do the opposite... They gravitate toward what they're comfortable with and away from the hard problem.

From: @dwarkesh_sp and @collision

[Jesse Invent ⚡ @jesseInvent]

https://t.co/UELkkElVAJ

[Hansel Praise @hannytalker]

Yes, it would be faster if you do it yourself, and it would take longer if you allow them to do it. But if you keep robbing people of the chance to learn and build their muscles, you have no business being a manager.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I really want my brothers to know that opportunities have a way of disguising as failures.

In the places where you think opportunities no longer exist, they do - maybe just not for you.

Systems, people, authority always bend backwards for the right person - be that person.