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Kai Khalid's write-ups from Nairobi on building AI systems and running operations: the patterns, the safety rails and the honest numbers.
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Digital Global Overview Report 2027, Kenya: What the new data reveals about AI curiosity, the limits of vanity reach, and why the real commercial bottleneck is operational trust.
Kenya leads the world in AI usage among internet users, yet digital commerce value is shrinking. An operational analysis of the Digital 2027 Kenya report.
· 11 min read · Digital 2027 Kenya, Operational trust, E-commerce & AI
How I debloated my TCL smart TV and cleared the clutter, with an AI assistant
How I debloated my TCL smart TV with a free tool and an AI assistant, then removed the home-screen clutter and recommendations, and added a flip clock.
· 10 min read · TCL smart TV, Flip clock screensaver
How not to leak your customers' data from a vibe-coded app
A practical pre-launch security checklist for founders and operators shipping AI-built MVPs, with notes on Kenya's Data Protection Act and South Africa's POPIA.
· 6 min read · Vibe coding, Customer data leak
Vercel vs Cloudflare for a static Next.js site: what I measured from Nairobi
I moved my Next.js site from Vercel to Cloudflare and measured both from Nairobi. Cloudflare ~250 ms faster to first byte; desktop Lighthouse favoured Vercel.
· 6 min read · Vercel vs Cloudflare, Next.js hosting benchmark
Start the answer early: making an AI assistant feel faster without showing the wrong answer
How I made an AI chatbot feel faster by streaming the answer alongside the safety check, without showing the wrong answer. Honest, mixed numbers.
· 8 min read · AI chatbot latency, Streaming LLM responses