Umar Abdullahi

October 20, 2026

AI vertigo is real. Keep building anyway.

Tokens spent aren't value shipped. As Andrej Karpathy pointed out in a recent post on X, people are split into groups by how well they understand what LLMs can do. Most people see a weak chatbot, most professionals see only a small improvement, and a small group sees an extreme change. Within that small group, people are watching the c...
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February 24, 2024

What you should be thinking as BDC goes fully digital

Since floating the Naira, the new leadership of the apex bank in Nigeria (CBN) has been making several regulatory changes in a bid to stabilise the currency. The latest being a revised regulatory and supervisory guideline for Bureau de Change (BDC) operations. Essentially, from a tech perspective, this involves digitising BDC operation...
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