Marvin Okafor

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Marvin Okafor

Oct 15

The Antivirus Ate 30GB. Notes From a 50-Hour Experiment on a Laptop.

#agents #ai #gemma #machinelearning

4 min read

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Marvin Okafor

Oct 10

A Change That Does Nothing Should Score Zero. Mine Didn't.

#ai #testing #python #programming

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Oct 7

I Pre-Registered a Side Project. My Favourite Idea Did Not Survive.

#ai #research #programming #career

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Oct 2

I Had Incredible Bosses. They Still Only Used 30% of Me.

#discuss #career #watercooler #beginners

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 26

I Use AI Every Day. I'm Also Googling Crop Rotation.

#discuss #ai #career #watercooler

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 17

69 Tests. All Passing. Zero Bugs Caught.

#ai #testing #python #programming

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 13

Six Checks to Run Before You Trust a Number Your Own Harness Produced.

#testing #python #ai #programming

9 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 11

Two Readers Broke My Checks. Not One of My Numbers Moved.

#testing #python #ai #programming

7 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 10

Nine Bugs in My Own Evaluation Harness. Every One Made My Results Look Better.

#testing #ai #programming #python

6 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 7

I Grade AI Agent Code for a Living. Here's the 12-Point Checklist I Run Before Trusting Any of It.

#ai #codereview #devops #webdev

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 1

I Built an Agent to Fix Bad Tests. I Found Eight Bugs in My Own Ruler.

#showdev #testing #ai #python

7 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 28

5,900 Engineers Just Registered for a Hackathon Where Using AI Is the Point. Here's How It Will Actually Be Judged.

#hackathon #ai #devops #career

5 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 6

I've Spent Months Grading AI Agents' Code for a Living. Here's the Pattern Nobody's Talking About

#ai #llmops #agenticai #careerdev

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 6

Building Deterministic RL Environments for Cloud Infrastructure Evaluation: What Actually Transfers From Production Engineering

#ai #backend #devops #testing

5 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 6

Postmortem: How a Minor Version Bump Silently Collapsed Our Types to `never`

#typescript #webdev #debugging

3 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 6

Cutting Latency by 30% on a High-Traffic E-Commerce Platform: A Profiling-First Approach

#performance #postgres #aws

3 min read

Marvin Okafor

Aug 6

Why We Test Row-Level Security Against a Real Postgres Database, Not Mocks

#postgres #security #testing

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 15 '25

Building the Future of Sustainable Materials: A Developer's Journey with Kiro

#webdev #programming #kiro #sustainability

6 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 4 '25

Building Youtangen: An AI-Driven Sustainable Material Platform with Kiro #kiro

#kiro #climatetech #ai #hackathon

4 min read

Marvin Okafor

Sep 1 '25

The "Ordinariness" of Tech

#writing #webdev #ai #programming

3 min read

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The Antivirus Ate 30GB. Notes From a 50-Hour Experiment on a Laptop.

Want to connect with Marvin Okafor?

A Change That Does Nothing Should Score Zero. Mine Didn't.

I Pre-Registered a Side Project. My Favourite Idea Did Not Survive.

I Had Incredible Bosses. They Still Only Used 30% of Me.

I Use AI Every Day. I'm Also Googling Crop Rotation.

69 Tests. All Passing. Zero Bugs Caught.

Six Checks to Run Before You Trust a Number Your Own Harness Produced.

Two Readers Broke My Checks. Not One of My Numbers Moved.

Nine Bugs in My Own Evaluation Harness. Every One Made My Results Look Better.

I Grade AI Agent Code for a Living. Here's the 12-Point Checklist I Run Before Trusting Any of It.

I Built an Agent to Fix Bad Tests. I Found Eight Bugs in My Own Ruler.

5,900 Engineers Just Registered for a Hackathon Where Using AI Is the Point. Here's How It Will Actually Be Judged.

I've Spent Months Grading AI Agents' Code for a Living. Here's the Pattern Nobody's Talking About

Building Deterministic RL Environments for Cloud Infrastructure Evaluation: What Actually Transfers From Production Engineering

Postmortem: How a Minor Version Bump Silently Collapsed Our Types to `never`

Cutting Latency by 30% on a High-Traffic E-Commerce Platform: A Profiling-First Approach

Why We Test Row-Level Security Against a Real Postgres Database, Not Mocks

Building the Future of Sustainable Materials: A Developer's Journey with Kiro

Building Youtangen: An AI-Driven Sustainable Material Platform with Kiro #kiro

The "Ordinariness" of Tech