working on @ultramarketsxyz - prev founded @lazerpay | ex eng @makerdao @xendfinance @paystack | @paradigm & Interact Fellow
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i tried to work through being sick and my body sent me back to bed twice. wrote about why i couldn’t just stop
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When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows:
- Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking.
- Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results.
So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks.
What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files.
I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks.
What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.
Well done bro! Massively rooting for youuu❤️
Building Brimble is the hardest thing i've done in my life and to be honest I am kind of suprised to see it's still standing, it's so crazy because we don't support local builders enough and if it's in S.F it's the other way round
1) You get constantly compared to vercel/railway and it's sad because if you want to get people in this space to use it to you need to ship features to the quality they have already set (either same quality or you go higher)
2) After shipping almost the same quality, local users here still force you to make decisions by cutting cost of your product, just because you want them to use it and at the end of the day, you still get compared and you even have no choice.
3) I and abraham have been constantly bootstrapping the product for the last 4 years, so we only scale on demand. We don't have the luxury to throw money into compute unncessarily.
4) There were different iterations of the product just to get PMF, the directions changed about 2-3 times between the years.
5) oh fine, "enterprise" has the money. But at the same time, you need a good amount of money to get the licenses to support enterprise and at the same time, some enterprise will look down on you especially when it's just 2 engineers managing the product, ever since we got the idea in 2022.
You do performance and security audits yourself, you need to be extremely stable (just with a team of 2 and after all that, you still get compared. It's very much fine, but nobody gives a damn)
6) Brimble literally has everything (databases, sandboxes, fullstack deployments, autoscaling, static outbound ips e.t.c). Strived to succeed
7) You are also trying to pitch to investors, in a case where some of them don't have a clue or the nuances involved in what you are building. The best everyone has to do is support local products, supporting local products even gives you as a user a ton of advantage. You control the type of features you want, the prices is very affordable for you, you'd get the maximum support you need without having to send emails or wait for 3 business days to get feedbacks.
A few angels really believes in the vision and fingers crossed, really love it.
But at the end of the day, it still seems you aren't good enough for people to use you.
I'm extremely grateful for people that took all of these out of their mind to actually support us in terms of using the product end to end. Sharing reasonable feedbacks and also sticking around even when it had issues.
If i have the opportunity to do this again, i would peacefully decline.
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We just completed training Nerve-1, our first AI model built entirely from scratch.
Nerve-1 is a lightweight, ~34M-parameter model trained on over 23 billion tokens.
It’s designed for intelligent routing, deciding how much reasoning effort a task requires and directing it to the most suitable AI model.
It runs entirely on regular CPUs, making routing decisions in milliseconds. We estimate it could reduce our inference costs by at least 30%.
Rolling out soon to all businesses and users on @trydecideAI
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We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration.
The aim isn't to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.
Sad part is that once they see one has worked, they stop being creative, they stop pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and just do the exact thing.
I like the idea of people being free to create, but my god! Nigerians can be hilarious and shameless copycats.
You don't need to have the suffix "life" in your game. You don't need not do a car racing game. The first set even copied using a sub domain to launch. Lol.
Ok, there is an idea for a game.
A game that teaches you how to learn a language. It should be created for kids and since AI can help you with infinite game play and personalization, it should adapt to the person playing.
Once you get 1000 active users, Holla. NOT 1000 sign ups. Not 1M sign ups.
1000 active users.
*Bonus points if you start with Igbo.
All the best.
PS: You could also see how to integrate your own game with Lagos Life.
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We are at 1% of what AI gaming will lead to.
Making a ton of money making games used to be about Capital and technical abilities, plus a little cultural understanding.
Soon it will basically be all about the culture. Understanding what people want, and then making viral content playing that game.
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Hand-written code is on its way to becoming a hobby. AI art is a different story: it’s nowhere near ready for a "full AI" pipeline. And that’s purely on quality, before anyone even gets to the ethics and soul.
I strongly believe AI won't replace game artists or developers. It will give them more time to think, and to focus on the art and what makes a game great.
Right now I watch artists and developers lose days to repetitive, mundane tasks. AI takes that and they get the creative work back. I’m sure if I was an environment or character artist today I’d have lost my mind using blender & UE
embeding this game on @LagosLifeApp and playing with your boys >>>
🚨3 new playgrounds just landed!!!
🟤 Mud: the field after rain
🟠 Sand: tyre goals and golden-hour dust
🟢 The Cage: 5-a-side under the floodlights
Pick your playground before kick-off. Free, no download.
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Introducing Quality (@usequality_ ): The feedback layer for teams and agents.
i've always believed that feedback within product teams should be as easy as dropping comments and getting response right on top of what they're working on.
with Quality you can:
→ click anywhere, leave a comment, and your teammates gets notified and can reply.
→ a playback recording is attached to each thread, with console logs, network and actions so engineers have full technical context.
→ connect Quality MCP to your agents (claude, codex, cursor & others), they can go through a thread, watch the playback and fix issues for you without explaining.
→ you can turn a thread into a Jira/Linear issue or connect Slack to get notified on what your feedback your teammates are giving.
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Rare Audio of Young Igbo Men Talking More Than 100 Years Ago (with English
Translation)
Listen to 1 of the oldest recorded Igbo conversations ever preserved. The recording was made in 1911 during the anthropological surveys conducted by Northcote W. Thomas for British government.
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it occurred to me today that ive only grown up in countries where private interests have been pretty tightly aligned with national interests.
how strange it is to say a company is an African startup when it's incorporated in Delaware w/ majority foreign investors!
im sure there's a good reason how this came to be. it's so pervasive, i've accepted this as "just how things are"
if governments in Africa do not underwrite "their" hardware startups (that's not even incorporated in their country) and capital from outside the country underwrites these startups, do successive funding rounds and growth of the company lead to the growth of the country?
thanks for writing this and asking some of the obvious and hard questions!
i'd like to keep our discussion public (via replies) that it may draw more discussions from others.
lemme ask 2 harder higher level questions followed by 2 lower level questions.
1) backing hardware startups is hard—there are too many known-unknown and unknown-unknowns. i want to understand why you seem to place a lot of responsibilities primarily on the shoulder of private investors. other than extreme edge cases (maybe spacex?) historically investments into manufacturing went hand in hand when governments and their policies significantly derisked these ventures that local capital (ie banks) would flow into these industries.
ive thus seen two "successful" examples on the continent:
a. china and [insert african country] signing something govt-govt which opens opportunities in the private sector
b. a company that's critical for national sovereignty is funded by capital from outside the nation/continent and starts hiring foreigner execs (terra)
as an oyinbo investor who's raised non-DFI capital off the continent and who really wants to invest into these startups, how do/should i invest when federal/local govts don't even signal that they believe in their own startups? is pursuing b. the only path forward?
2) because hardware assets are physically located within and owned by a country, id assume that vertically integrating that company within its home country really matters. but when i look around on the continent, other than ethiopia, the default for startups seem to be incorporate in delaware then conduct their business in African country. what does it mean to be a [insert African country] startup? does incorporation or percentage of ownership not matter insofar as youre offering a service to African countries?
this can matter less for software startups, but when it comes to hardware startups shouldn't this really matter? but if said startup incorporates in nigeria (or any other african country), why should capital raised outside nigeria touch it?
3) im not seeing hardware startups popping up everywhere in africa, but specifically among nigerian founders. would you happen to know of other parts of african with interesting hardware startups where they're striving to create everything from a to z?
4) like how an investor wouldnt invest into a vanilla software startup but invest into a software startup solving a specific problem for a specific industry, which nigerian industries are ripe to be changed through hardware innovation within the next 5-10 years and why?