Mark Robberts

Long-time developer and solutions architect and multi-facet engineer. Enjoy exploring AI, business, and sustainability. We need more facts, reason and humility.

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

@sama @sama i wrote a short thesis on how AI can ignite 3rd world economies

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When..?

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Maybe things will start to improve once politicians stop gaslighting the country’s citizens. SA is losing its industrial capability on a daily basis

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

South Africa has the largest, most industrialised and most diverse economy in Africa.

We have a sophisticated financial sector, deep capital markets, substantial mining reserves, vast tracks of arable land, untapped wind and solar energy resources, and cutting-edge digital infrastructure.
https://t.co/NfsZVS0LtM

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

So the ANCs draconian race-obsessed policies is killing any hope of investment and economic growth. Now at a rate that can see as many as a million jobs lost in a year

[SABC News @SABCNews]

BREAKING NEWS | South Africa's official unemployment rate rises to 32.7% in Q1.
345 000 jobs were lost in the first three months of 2026.

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@TimPlewman Well doesn’t that question apply to any business for that matter..?

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@MphahleleMM And future generations will be poorer for it

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@GarethCliff And it will put a next generation into irreversible debt

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

SA is in no position to lend any more money. Unless it’s an interest free loan with no repayment term then it will just burden the next generation with a debt burden that it can’t repay

[BusinessTech @BusinessTechSA]

France is in talks to lend South Africa €100 million (R1.9 billion) to support a programme to regenerate its rundown cities.
https://t.co/vo7bhoEzNw

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Hey @OpenAI here’s a heads-up:
There are thousands of content creators continuously pumping out one message ‘Anthropic just released X Y Z’ backed by either a new technology, research paper, or training segment.

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I’ve said this before, but if @OpenAI would just allow custom GPTs to be used in projects, it could act as /skills.

If this was done a year ago they probably would not have been sliding backwards compared to their competition.

#AI #business #trend

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

I am tired of seeing companies close on a weekly basis.

Our prayer should be that God strike down incompetent politicians, corrupt networks, and those who push for restrictive policies for their own benefit!

The people of South Africa deserve better.

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

Today I’ll give @grok a chance to help me with an edge-case mobile app server configuration.
These real-life practical applications are often a lot more telling. #AI

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@joburglawyer Well said

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@Olivia_LaGrange Absolutely right, but then the Tshwane shuts down businesses left-right-and-centre for by-law enforcement and as it is all enforceable there’s little being done to provide opportunity for the ‘Building mentality that you speak of’

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@akafaceUS Or teach them how to punch

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@joburglawyer That’s framing it nicely

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@AntiLeftMemes Malnutrition

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Imagine having to state the absolute obvious

[DefenceWeb @defenceWeb_Afr]

The United States Embassy in South Africa has said allowing Iranian forces to operate in South African waters is a sign of South Africa choosing to stand with a regime that brutally represses its people and engages in terrorism.
https://t.co/oKNalZsWIW

[Willem Petzer @willempet]

South Africa's job market is smaller than in 2010, despite the population being 15m more, and is shrinking by 60 000 EVERY QUARTER.

2 in 3 Black South Africans under 35 in unemployed, and it will only get worse.
https://t.co/4HtPHFpORJ

[Mark Robberts @RobbertsMark]

@WhiteLionII1 The bigger question may also have been why the defense force is used for a party event