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Ibrahim Diallo

Because in tech, and in life, you don’t get what you deserve. You get what you explicitly ask for. I'm Ibrahim Diallo (ID). I’ve been coding since dial-up was cutting-edge, worked in tech for 30 years, and somehow I’m still under 40. I skipped college and boot camps, but I’ve built (and broken) enough systems to know what actually matters. This show isn’t fluff. No hype, no "learn AI in 5 minutes." Every episode gives you real, quotable, weaponizable knowledge. You’ll leave entertained, but more importantly, you’ll leave with an unfair advantage.

  1. May 16

    How do you become really GOOD at anything as a Beginner?

    Everyday, we have new passions and we want to become really good at it. I've found a simple way to get good at any subject before I get bored with it.

    10 min

  2. May 10

    Programming is still free and will remain free forever.

    You don't need to pay to learn and to work as a programmer. All the tools are free, don't let people convince you otherwise.https://idiallo.com/blog/programming-tools-are-free

    11 min
  3. AI DIDN'T DELETE THE DATABASE, YOU DID!

    May 8

    AI DIDN'T DELETE THE DATABASE, YOU DID!

    In a recent tweet, an entrepreneur claimed that an AI agent has deleted all his production databases. My question was how can anyone delete your database in the first place? In this episode, we explore the main question he should have asked, and how you can protect yourself in the future.

    11 min

  4. May 1

    Content is short for Content Farms

    Content used to be a bad word. Now it's a billion-dollar strategy, and we're all paying the price.My very first day on the job happened to fall on February 2011. The exact day Google dropped its Panda update and wiped out an entire industry overnight. I watched a manager and lead dev scream at each other while the company's ad revenue hit exactly zero. Welcome to the world of content farms.In this video, I trace how "content" went from a dirty word to a career aspiration, and why it isn't a good thing. From the SEO spam era of the early 2010s to today's YouTube tutorials that make you sit through a NordVPN ad before telling you how to turn your water heater back on, the game hasn't really changed. Only the players have.Don't reduce yourself to a content strategy. Create things you're proud of.Source: - https://idiallo.com/blog/content-is-bad- https://idiallo.com/blog/create-content-or-create-art

    8 min
  5. WHY IS EVERYONE SUPPOSED TO DIE IF MACHINES CAN THINK?

    Apr 27

    WHY IS EVERYONE SUPPOSED TO DIE IF MACHINES CAN THINK?

    Whenever I hear Sam Altman and Dario Amodei talking about AI, I'm reminded of Dune Prophecy. In the show, thinking machines are bad because they have attempted to kill all humans. So people are careful when building any machine, making sure that human input is necessary.  But then, we have the heads of AI companies peddling the same danger. Why? They are the masters of this technology, and they are selling it. Why are they saying the tech is dangerous? The answer is simple. They are creating this doom narrative to legally prevent anyone else from competing with them. Join me as I break down this doomerism and make it more digestible for the rest of us.

    13 min
  6. What is Copilot?

    Apr 20

    What is Copilot?

    Have you ever used Copilot? No not the one on your windows machine. No, not that one either. Not the one available through the web. I mean the other one. No not the one in Microsoft 365 apps. Oh, that's MS Office new name... i think. Ok, Microsoft has a branding problem. Let's get to it.

    11 min
  7. Your friends are hiding their best ideas from you

    Apr 12

    Your friends are hiding their best ideas from you

    Imagine this for a moment. You are sitting across from a friend at a coffee shop. And suddenly they lean in over their latte. They look left. They look right and their voice drops to this dramatic whisper. Then, they tell you they have it! The billion dollar idea. The secret to early retirement. It's you know the app or the service or the website that is absolutely gonna change the world. I’m sure you have definitely been there. We have all been on the receiving end of that whisper. The reason we’ve been there is because the satisfaction in sharing ideas, is in the telling. That’s what I want to talk about today.

    24 min

  8. Apr 5

    It's not that deep.

    I've been sick for a couple weeks. I realized that when you don't have a voice, you can't record yourself. So here are a couple stories to bring us back on track. What do you do on a sunday evening? Come hangout with me, and I'll share a few stories with you.

    14 min
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Because in tech, and in life, you don’t get what you deserve. You get what you explicitly ask for. I'm Ibrahim Diallo (ID). I’ve been coding since dial-up was cutting-edge, worked in tech for 30 years, and somehow I’m still under 40. I skipped college and boot camps, but I’ve built (and broken) enough systems to know what actually matters. This show isn’t fluff. No hype, no "learn AI in 5 minutes." Every episode gives you real, quotable, weaponizable knowledge. You’ll leave entertained, but more importantly, you’ll leave with an unfair advantage.

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