I handed an AI agent the run of my production backend, and it earned its keep by the first coffee. Then it offered to reset a secret, and I understood the only thing protecting everything was its good behaviour. The fix was not more caution. It was making the dangerous key simply not be there.
Every frontier model release washes away another batch of startups, and none of it is a surprise. What exactly can these companies not kill? A buoyancy test for anything built on code, and the line worth redrawing every quarter.
Why successful businesses in African cities build on trust and proximity, not visibility. How to localize commerce infrastructure by understanding the invisible architecture that markets actually run on.
Nigeria climbed 31 places on one AI readiness index and became the highest-ranked country in Africa on another. Both numbers are genuinely good news. This piece is about what the numbers are actually measuring, and what happens when a country gets very good at climbing a ranking without the thing the ranking was supposed to represent following it up.
