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10x Engineer prev. @Deel . Built https://xitter.gq/t.co/iGQy0GRoz7, https://xitter.gq/t.co/W6mRHLiIWi, https://xitter.gq/t.co/rtwKN3SCFd, and https://xitter.gq/t.co/68gT6ZYX4F.

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Joined July 2020
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Just a few years ago, management could comfortably wait out a two-week sprint to get a feature shipped. Today, thereโ€™s growing impatience when a feature takes more than 24 hours to deliver. ๐Ÿฅฒ The pressure on software engineers right now is crazy, and I donโ€™t think weโ€™re talking about it enough. I can barely get two sentences into explaining my implementation plan before someone interrupts with: โ€œJust give it to Claude to do!โ€ โ€œSir, we need to think aboutโ€ฆโ€ โ€œThatโ€™s what Claude is there for. Let it do the heavy lifting!โ€ A task gets assigned, and barely 10 minutes later: โ€œWhy is it taking so long? Arenโ€™t you using Claude properly? This should take a minute or two!โ€ Somehow, the existence of AI has created this assumption that software engineering is now just a matter of writing a prompt and watching features magically appear. Nobody wants to hear about architecture, edge cases, testing, security, or the implications of a poorly thought-out implementation. Just ship it. And ship it NOW. AI has become both a blessing and a curse. Something I genuinely expected to reduce my workload has instead increased it. The productivity gains are real, but so are the expectations that come with them. Weโ€™ve made development faster, but somehow, weโ€™ve also made every delivery feel slower. And thatโ€™s the irony nobody seems to be talking about. Omo mehn, Iโ€™m just exhausted, might as well just resign, but it seems itโ€™s the same everywhere๐Ÿ˜ช
I want to talk about something thatโ€™s really been stressing me out and draining me mentally.
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Yโ€™all will love Mixpilot feature when apple approves My new updates. I call it an editor for who doesnโ€™t want to edit, lazy folks like me. Prompt editing. usemixtape.app/
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funny how i also just did same too ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ i integrated sabilytics with @senviok and mehnn @unclebigbay143 did a really great work
Just integrated Sabilytics to Notling. Super smooth experience! Nice work chief ๐Ÿ”ฅ @unclebigbay143
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lagos region now available on @pxxl_space .
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Timing is EVERYTHINGโ€ฆ
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I remember my first time in Europe, couldnโ€™t believe I made finally made it. I was proud of every step I took
Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far youโ€™ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time
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I decided to review a PR myself with my eye and omo.... AI writes code like a junior engineer who has been told all the possible loopholes that could go wrong in there code. So dirty patches, upon dirty patches
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โ€œsomeone already built thatโ€ your town has 14 pizza places. youโ€™ll be okay.
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You are creating your own game keh, after saying Lagos life canโ€™t last for More than a week ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. Loser!!!!!!!!! Yall should cower in shame , so youโ€™re creating the same thing you said wasnโ€™t lucrative ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚. I will press your neckkkksss
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Iโ€™m not sure we fully understand how significant this is $500k raised in less than a week of launch, 4m+ users, $170+ revโ€ฆ. Itโ€™s absolutely insane Iโ€™ve always believed that with the tech available today, profound products would emerge from Africaโ€ฆthe talent was never the problem, the minds, creativity, technical skills were always here what held many people back was the cost of getting startedโ€ฆ. Time was the most expensive thing, then you needed a team, some funds just to get a product to market AI has changed that narrativeโ€ฆ the cost of building and launching products is falling and more people can now turn ideas into reality without needing the resources that used to be ablocker Lagoslife is a glimpse of whatโ€™s possible and I know so much more will come out of Africa. Shalom has broken a mental barrier for many of us, showing us whatโ€™s possible when African builders have the tools to bring their ideas to life Now is the best time to build. Start now!
Company behind viral Nigerian game Lagos Life raises $500k Vatar, the company behind the viral browser game @LagosLifeApp has closed a $500,000 pre-seed round. @theflutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola invested in the startup through his fund, Resilience17, while Oo Nwoye, @terraindustries and Mono CEOs Nathan Nwachuku and Abdulhamid Hassan also participated in the round, which closed in a day. Read More: thecondia.com/vatar-lagos-liโ€ฆ
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prince retweeted
Voice chat has been added to naijagames. You can now speak to your opponents while playing. And to my whot players, sorry about the bugs , they have been fixed, visual clarity has also improved and a new dial has been added to make card selection easier. Hand signals and body movement coming to jackpot soon! naijagames.app?x
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Lagos Life launched on October 1st. Just 9 days later, over 4.7 million people have played the game. Today, Iโ€™m excited to announce that Vatar, the parent company behind Lagos Life, has closed a $500K angel round led by AB Hassan (@ijbguy), Nathan Nwachuku (@_KingNath), and GB Agboola (@TechProd_Arch). Lagos is just the beginning. Weโ€™re building entire worlds, and thereโ€™s so much more to come. ๐ŸŒ vatar.com
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finally, rename your spaces/desktop in macOS marquee, coming soon... โŒ›๏ธ
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Gameplay is so fun.
๐Ÿšจ Updates are here. - Get more Racing feeling as you now compete with 4 other crazy divers - Lesser Traffic to ensure you complete your race - Earn points and unlock better vehicles - Go full-screen to enjoy immersive experience ๐ŸšจPlay on Desktop for best experience
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Iโ€™ve been awake since, I have written several versions of this and this is the most polite I could do! Dear @cryptobaddiee1, since you muted that tweet, I'll just drop this here. Lagos Life right now: 103,600 players online, 2.25M total, and 1.65M visits today. That must be terrifying for someone whose entire business model is a Telegram bot. You asked, "What do I know?" Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Your server bill somehow appreciated by $90k between two tweets. If your coins pumped like your estimates, you wouldn't need to rug anybody. Here's a free lesson, no gas fees needed: 2.25M users doesn't mean 2.25M concurrent users. Even at peak, fewer than 5% are online at once. One efficient server on Hetzner can handle roughly 100k concurrent connections for under $50 a month. Put Redis in front of the database, cache everything hot, add backpressure so the DB never chokes, scale vertically, and add replicas only when the graphs actually ask for them, you might not understand all this, and thatโ€™s fine this is not a derogatory statement, trust me. Even if you need two boxes, you're still under $100 a month. How dumb of us to run efficient systems when we could have been panic-pricing our ignorance instead. As for your "Who's watching the adverts?" Enough people that Chowdeck, Salary Index, and ONErpm are paying to be seen. One campaign hit a 38% tap-through rate, when normal banner ads pray for just 1%. Advertisers are actively queueing up for slots. But please, by all means, continue your audit. And let's stop pretending you ever cared about servers. What's really breaking your heart is that there's no token ticker to attach to Afrika Shrine or Quilox. No presale, no exit liquidity, and no bagholders to exploit. You came looking for a playground to rug and accidentally stumbled onto an app people actually use. You muted the thread because you claim you "can't argue with money-dumb people." Miss, you argued cloud costs using two completely different numbers in the same thread. The money-dumb person was right there in those tweets. Staying muted and avoiding these conversations would have been the smartest thing you did this week, but I guess you aren't that smart, and that's fine too. Prove me right by blocking me after you see this.
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Do y'all remember Zombie Highway? ๐ŸงŸโ€โ™‚๏ธ This is the Lagos version ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Agberos jump on your car, car spotters want you to ball or drive past, build your aura, get a babe ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Best part? Shoot the agberos downโ€ฆ but the police might chase you ๐Ÿš” Play free ๐Ÿ‘‰ agbero-highway.fun
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