A developer building AutoValue, a car valuation engine for Nigerian used cars, discovered that large language models (LLMs) fail to price vehicles accurately in volatile economies because their traini…
A developer in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, reports that a single heavy coding session with Claude Code consumed 1–1.5 kWh—more than the average Nigerian's daily electricity ration of 0.45 kWh. Citing meas…
A researcher found that ChatGPT and Claude blocked legitimate Lassa fever vaccine research queries while DeepSeek provided full assistance, highlighting inconsistencies in AI safety safeguards that ma…
A developer traced the journey of a single LLM API call from a keystroke through submarine fibre cables, data centres, and busy GPUs, explaining why the same prompt can feel instant one day and sluggi…
A review of William MacAskill's 'Doing Good Better' examines how effective altruism uses evidence-based reasoning to maximize philanthropic impact, challenging readers to move beyond emotional giving.…
A developer explains the real-world latency behind LLM API calls, tracing the journey from user prompt through submarine cables to data centers and GPUs. The post highlights how geographic distance, e…
A developer built FarmOps Desk, an AI-powered operations SaaS for smallholder livestock farms, and chose a Nigerian poultry and catfish farm as its first customer. Nigeria's dense poultry and catfish …
Participants in the Plateau State University School of Postgraduate Studies Effective Altruism Fellowship in Nigeria reflect on William MacAskill's book 'Doing Good Better', arguing that good intentio…
African Union ministers met in Tangier, Morocco, in April to discuss AI as governments across the continent race to develop strategies and attract investment, but concerns grow over foreign control of…
Dean Karlan launched a Substack newsletter, starting with an updated guide on which World Cup team to root for based on global happiness, using AI to reduce costs and enable real-time updates. He argu…
Doris, a lawyer and startup consultant from Nigeria, introduces herself to the DEV community, sharing her background in legal practice, human rights, governance, and startup advisory. She plans to pos…
Spotify's international markets now drive most of its growth, with non-English content accounting for over half of consumption and songs in 16 languages reaching its global top 50 last year. The platf…
A translator working on an AI safety awareness flyer for schools in northern Nigeria found that key terms like 'deepfakes' and 'prompt' have no direct equivalents in Hausa, forcing approximations that…
An engineered pandemic response model designed for high-income countries would likely fail in resource-limited settings like Nigeria, where weak institutions, fragmented healthcare, and low public tru…
An 18-year-old developer in Lagos, Nigeria, built and launched a premium restaurant landing page template with a dark, cinematic design featuring gold accents. Using AI-assisted development tools, the…
A self-taught 19-year-old developer in Nigeria tested Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 E2B model on an 8GB RAM laptop without a GPU. He fed the model a degraded, double-compressed WhatsApp screenshot of code…
The article describes the author's initial skepticism toward on-device AI, specifically Google's Gemma 4 model, which they dismissed as inferior to cloud-based alternatives. After encountering discuss…
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat…
GDP statistics in many poor countries are often unreliable, citing examples like Nigeria and Ghana, where methodological changes (such as updating base years) caused reported GDP to suddenly increase …