The best advice I'm ever going to give you about software development is this: Don't start with the tech or the logic - begin with the people. Software is about people. Build a solution that solves a real problem, and the rest will come together.

$AAPL is up 50% over the last year - and it’s got another 60 points to go before the end of 2026! #prediction of @Rickard

Startups pitching. AI isn’t a category, it’s the norm with 60% as AI-native, 26% is AI-enabled, and only 14% has no AI core features. The defining theme is “AI employees,” not copilots, not assistants. The pitch is always “we replace [expensive human role] end-to-end,”

A milestone for @TWiT as it turns 21! (In the US, that means I could legally have a drink with it!) This milestone brings back a memory of being invited by @leolaporte to join the live stream in the studio, to talk about the tech industry in #Rwanda. I still remember when podcasts weren’t “podcasts” yet. I was digging for Apple/Mac content and randomly landed on @leolaporte first podcast episode. (it was his only one-up at that time - accidental early adopter status unlocked) I’ve been listening to TWiT shows pretty much every week since, watching it grow from scrappy livestreams into one of the most consistent voices in tech media. Years later, after meeting @alexlindsay in Rwanda a few times, he said, "When you are next in California, come by the studio.” And, I did. Leo, being Leo, just waves me over and drops me into the big table conversation… live streaming. No prep. No warning. Just: “You’re on!” We talked about tech in #Rwanda and the rise of the software industry in #Kigali. It was fun - and a cool opportunity to be on the TWIT network!

I can’t send a simple message to my mother or my wife anymore without wondering what kind of accidental crime I just committed. 🫨😖😅 A couple days ago, I tried to tell my mom I loved spending time (“handing out”) with her a few months ago when i was back in the states. I wrote that I look forward to when i get back so we can ‘hang out’ again. However, my iPhone autocorrect wrote, “I really want to hang you.” 😵🤣 This was in a family group chat, and there was a different family dynamic between us that day - and a lot of teasing. Luckily, I am my mother’s favorite and i’m still in good standing, but my iPhone is not helping me keep that status. I’ve been writing on mobile devices since the late 90s. I type rapid because my brain is far ahead of my typing. My wife calls it ‘my intense typing.’ Her teasing is somewhat true, as I get a lot of information in my head, and start to type fiercely to get it all down. This leads to mistakes and the need for restructuring sentences. Somehow, I am worse on an iPhone today than I was 10 years ago. Not because I forgot how to type, but because the keyboard has decided it’s a co-author - and often not a good one! I don’t think I’m crazy or my skills are worsening. And, to prove it, I did the research - I found, it’s not just me… It’s was easy to find a huge increase of other people with similar complaints - articles are everywhere with titles like, ‘the keyboard got “smarter”… and forgot its one job.’ Across Reddit and other social media, there are long rants. Searching on google and AI Perplexity, clearly describes there is an upswing in frustrated mobile auto-correct use. It’s a thing. Others are running into the same thing - missed taps at high speed, words getting rewritten after you type them, autocorrect confidently “fixing” things that were already correct. And massive complaints on missing the context (like hanging your mother). It was reassuring to know that many people have experienced auto-correct altering the context of a sentence, such as changing “hanging with my mom” to “hanging her,” with a delay that makes it harder to notice. This is a common issue many have encountered. What is really silly here, is that AI would write any sentence preferring that someone would rather ‘hang their mother’ vs ‘hanging with their mother.’ Obviously we’re are still in the early stages of AI being helpful, (And more so for all the moms out there. 😜) Under the hood, it makes sense: More machine learning, more personalization. The keyboard is literally learning how you type. The problem is… sometimes it learns the wrong lessons. A few typos, some slang, one weird phrase, and suddenly your phone starts overriding perfectly normal sentences like it knows better. Add a bit of lag, a few dropped inputs, and now you’re fighting both the keyboard and its opinion about your writing. My style of writing often is a bit snarky, mixed in with the serious or direct tone = which i’m sure is hard for AI predict. That’s the real shift. It’s not just more typos. It’s a system that misinterprets what you wrote, and then aggressively commits to being wrong. And the results of all this new technology helping me write better (this is does), but also can twist it into the wrong context. So, if you’ve typed a message lately and immediately found it was auto-correcting out of context - you’re not along. Lastly, this was written on a whim, on a Saturday morning, in a lovely UK cafe next to the river Themes, completely in response after some good natured family teasing of my DM typing failures. So, if you find any typos or out of context sentences or meanings, it wasnt me who may not be in professional mode, or focused to write a professional or quality post, and i’m surly not the one that poorly wrote anything - it was the iPhone marking all the mistakes (can i use that as an excuse from more on? Maybe if that is good and logical, i can use it to explain that last poorly written DM to my mom 😅😉)

Rwanda just did something most ecosystems are still debating - It built a Kinyarwanda ICT dictionary with 1,700 tech terms! 🙌🏻 This is great! We are all about Rwandans building tech solutions for Rwanda at @RwandaBuild - If people can’t understand technology in their own language, they can’t fully participate in building it.

Let the artists tell the stories. #Kwibuka32

Our staff at RWBuild in partnership with Ahawe Women's Hub hosted a supportive night for the women of Kigali!

#RWANDA- THE FUTURE OF TECH linkedin.com/pulse/rwanda-fu… via @LinkedIn @Rickard @guhemba #TechStartup

So, in the last two months, @AnthropicAI shipped 75 major features and modules on Claude (Claude — Code, Cowork, Dispatch, computer control, 1M context on desktop, scheduled tasks, more) That’s not just “fast execution” or “aggressive cadence.” That’s not a roadmap, that’s a firehose of capability directly into the core product that devoted core users already use every day - that’s a different level of dev operating and focus entirely. Their users can’t stop talking about how awesome all these tools are - they are getting all the buzz and feel like the clear leader for many months now. Then, take their competitor and leader in the AI space, @OpenAI, which is shutting down Sora, its text‑to‑video/video‑generation product, just months after launching it to major fanfare and signing a high‑profile Disney licensing deal. While Anthropic accelerates efforts to empower individual Claude users, OpenAI is shutting down popular products to focus on and expand enterprise and partner channels. Clearly, OpenAI is developing and likely working on a major strategy away from direct end-user focus, targeting what partners will utilize for their end users. - Anthropic has 1,000 employees, Claude safety infra; “AI‑native” product org - OpenAI has 3,500 employees, ChatGPT, an enterprise API, tools, robotics, and AGI research Only time will tell which strategy will pay out - maybe both strategies earn each to share future pieces of the AI pie.

Our staff at @RwandaBuild, in partnership with Ahawe Women's Hub, is hosting a supportive night for the women of Kigali! Check it out!

African startups are ‘over-mentored, over-trained.’ Rwanda wants to fix that. techcabal.com/2026/03/20/inn…

“AI solutions as advanced agents will run every SME in the business side in the years to come.” - @rickard Hoover, small business owners don’t know how to build useful AI agents; no time to learn agentic workflows. New/Better solutions for operators are needed in the market!

Great products aren’t built from bursts of effort. They come from sustained, focused execution. If you can’t focus on one task for hours at a time, you won’t build anything meaningful. If you can’t stay locked on one problem for days, you won’t build anything great. Get to work

Everyday is a good day to celebrate a Rwandan entrepreneur!