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- Hi strangerMay 08, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
I'm at home, sitting on the kitchen table. I just took my boys to school and I'm about to start my work. I'm writing this message directly to you. And you are reading it. Hello! Isn't that funny? I've been trying to write consistently, and it gives the impression that I am this serious person with some serious insights. But no, I'm just writing. Sometimes you respond, you send a nice email, other
- Asimov's three laws are merely a suggestionMay 06, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were designed as universal constraints for any thinking machine powerful enough to harm us: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection
- AI didn't delete your database, you didMay 04, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
Last week, a tweet went viral showing a guy claiming that a Cursor/Claude agent deleted his company's production database. We watched from the sidelines as he tried to get a confession from the agent: "Why did you delete it when you were told never to perform this action?" Then he tried to parse the answer to either learn from his mistake or warn us about the dangers of AI agents. Watch on YouTube
- Editing my LLM assisted ArticlesMay 02, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
Last year, I used AI to help me write articles. As I've mentioned before, it's convenient when you are doing so because it saves you time. But the problem comes up when you try to quote those articles back. Whatever you think you wrote is not what's in there. I always cringe when I read them back. As I've said before, I'm rewriting those articles so that they capture my voice, and so that I can a
- Disable Auto-UpdateMay 01, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone? I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart rate, are collected from a wearable device like a smartwatch and sent to the app via Bluetooth. No third-party servers are involved in that transaction. The data lives on the phone. It costs the devel
- Have You Seen the New Excel?Apr 29, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
Stop coding. Stop hiring. Stop building. While the tech world obsesses over large language models and neural networks, I discovered the real disruptor that has been hiding in plain sight. Mine was originally installed on my desktop in 1992. And now, it's about to change everything in the world. We are talking about Microsoft Excel, of course. If you haven't looked at a spreadsheet lately, you are
- Don't use localhost:3000, use your own custom domainApr 27, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
After presenting a demo of how an internal tool works, I was flooded with questions. Not about the tool, but about why I had bought a domain just to run the demo. "Why didn't you use the staging server?" they asked. I was confused. I didn't buy a domain. I was running it locally. But instead of the URL being localhost:3002, it was a fully formed domain. www.internaltool.com. In fact, some people
- The Satisfaction of a ChatGPT PlanApr 25, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
#NoFollowUpNecessary A couple weeks back, I was arguing that when people come up with ideas, the satisfaction is in the telling, not in building. And I was making this statement generally for idea sharing. But then, I also mentioned that people share their "ChatGPT plan" with me now. Rather than sharing the idea, they share the business plan on how to achieve the idea, entirely generated by AI. T
- What Do You Charge For?Apr 25, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
I've written about my journey to learn how to charge a fair price for building a website before. But even after landing on a strategy, there is still a question that remains unanswered. What should I charge for? Are you charging the price for the product itself? As in, the very cost for building a website? Or are you charging enough to make a living? This question applies to any field, whether you
- How to Come Up With Great IdeasApr 22, 2026Ibrahim Diallo @dialloibu
There's a story about an art teacher who divides a class into two groups. The first group is given one task. Design a single, perfect pot. The second group has a different instruction entirely. Make as many pots as you can before time is up. The first group measures, plans, and deliberates. They sketch ratios, debate proportions, and handle the clay with care. They have one shot, so they treat it