Nairobi, Kenya
I'm a software engineer with a decade of shipping products across fintech, decentralized protocols, and AI-native tools. This is where I write about what I'm learning, building, and reconsidering.
Recent
An 851-line spec matrix, a deliberate workflow, and the argument that AI-assisted development doesn't need better prompts — it needs better thinking. A case study in building Smith, the AI orchestration library behind Hadithi.
Three posts in two weeks after months of silence. How building Hadithi and dogfooding my own AI writing tool turned friction into a workflow and broke a long publishing drought.
OpenClaw just passed Linux on GitHub's star leaderboard, but a 58.9% safety pass rate and 0% intent understanding score tell a different story. A firsthand account of what happens when you trust an AI agent with a real goal.
AI has made writing code faster, but it has made senior review harder. Why the real bottleneck now is judging whether plausible code actually belongs in your system.
About
I've spent the last decade building software — mostly in Ruby on Rails and React, across a host of industries. I've led database migrations, introduced state management patterns that became team standards, and shipped products used by millions across Sub-Saharan Africa.
I'm interested in AI-native product design, decentralized protocols, and the kind of engineering that compounds. I write here about what I'm learning.