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Welcomes & Hellos! 🫂
This too shall pass, and that includes this year's meetups. Can you believe that we just hosted the final meetup of the year? Yes, us too. However, before you click off and listen to your preferred sad music 😭, we have some good news 🥳. Do you want to guess what it is? Read on to find out, will ya 😜? Whether you are reading this from the comfort of your German Machine 🚗, duvet 🛏️, or otherwise:
This is Episode #32 of The Kotlin Kenya Newsletter...
AI at Scale
AI can now be deemed ubiquitous. It is so everywhere that we might as well be living in a Cyberpunk 🤖 of sorts. We can even barely think of anything that does not at least run on AI. You 🫵 know that and so do we. That is why we had Andrés-Leonardo Martínez-Ortiz [we prefer to call him Almo 😄...] all the way from Google talk to us about AI and how big it has gotten since its adoption...
Guardrails and Sanity Checks: Verifying LLM Input and Output for Developers
Yes, we had another AI session 🙂. You saw this coming, did you not 😂? As if sponsoring this meetup was not enough, Snapp Mobile had Enrique López-Mañas [CTO] who took the audience through the process of verifying LLM Input and Output for Developers. While there is no denying that AI is rapidly evolving, we also cannot overlook the vulnerabilities 🐞 that accompany that. Enrique helped mitigate this issue by offering his insights on how to effectively control what your LLM receives and produces...
AI Agents in Copilot
Do you have an Agent 🤓? No, we are not talking about M-PESA 💰 Agents or something. We are referring to the ones that make you believe that you are Iron Man. Yet again, Snapp Mobile had Bryan Dollery deliver the final session on AI Agents in Copilot. In his talk, he talked [pun intended] about how modern intelligent 🧠 AI Agents are reshaping Developer Productivity...
DroidCon Kenya 2025
You know, we have reminded you about DroidCon Kenya 2025 for so long that we decided to remind you one last time, this time from the horse's mouth:
"Hey Fam! 👋 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉
We're just 20 DAYS AWAY from the most anticipated tech event of the year - droidcon Kenya x FlutterconKE 2025! Can you believe it?! 🤯 Here's the deal:
📅 November 5th-7th, 2025
📍 Golden Tulip, Westlands, Nairobi
🎟️ ONE ticket gets you access to BOTH events!
⚠️ URGENT - PRICES INCREASING SOON! ⚠️
If you've been sitting on the fence about getting your ticket, NOW is the time! Early bird pricing ends soon and prices will go up. Don't say we didn't warn you! 😅
What you'll experience: 🎤 Incredible speakers from around the world
💻 Practical workshops
🤝 Network with amazing developers
📸 Unforgettable moments
🎁 Exciting giveaways
This is THE place to be if you're serious about mobile development in Kenya!
Grab your ticket here: bit.ly/dcKE2025Tickets"
The Community Showcase 🙌
Do you want to see what our talented Community Members have been up to? Here you go: 👇
What Beats Rock
What Beats Rock? is a playful, AI-powered game built by Donald Isoe that transforms the classic rock 🪨-paper 📄-scissors ✂️ mechanic into an infinite loop of logic, creativity, and fun. Users are prompted with a question like:
What beats rock?
They respond (e.g., "Paper"), the AI justifies the answer, awards points, and continues the chain:
What beats paper?
User: Fire.
AI: Fire burns paper. +3 points!
The game continues until the user repeats an answer or gives an invalid one...
👉 Check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ke.don.what_beats_rock&pcampaignid=web_share
Before You Go 🏃♂️
Hey pssst 😬. Are you interested in giving a presentation in our upcoming meetups? Do you have what it takes to blow the minds of our esteemed community members 🤯? Or, do you have that project that you cannot wait to show off to our attendees? Well then, what are you waiting for 😳? Click me and submit your presentation, will ya?
Until November 🫂
As this meetup comes to a close, we are excited to plan for the next one 😃. As our community members, we want you to gain the most value from your membership. What better way to do that than getting involved? How can you do that 🤓? Well, submitting your presentations, telling a friend to tell a friend, and even attending the meetups are more than enough to start you off. We look forward to seeing you in November during DroidCon Kenya 2025. Until then, keep coding and do not forget to touch grasss or something 😉...
