Select By ID - A Podcast by Ibrahim Diallo

Ibrahim Diallo pulls back the curtain on the unsettling future of "vibe coding" - where AI writes all the code and programmers become glorified prompt engineers. In this episode: The car analogy that explains why AI-generated code fails  (windshield wipers included) How "debugging black boxes" might become our full-time job Andrej Karpathy's vision of  code becoming meaning...

Ibrahim Diallo thought he cracked the code: skip class, read the book, ace the test. Then reality hit. In this episode, he unpacks: The JavaScript book that made him a tutor  (and the C# book that broke his confidence) Why students paid him $10 just to copy code (and what that reveals about learning) The Texas Instruments engineer who changed everything  with one calculator demo How  great teacher...

After 20 years of coding, Ibrahim Diallo could build apps on autopilot—until AI changed the game. In this episode, he explores: The hidden cost  of letting AI write your code Why  System 1 vs. System 2 thinking  matters more than ever How  Angular 2.0 was just a warm-up  for the AI revolution The terrifying parallel between  modern dev tools  and  The Machine Stops Why  choosing boring tech  might...

When an indie developer fixed GTA Online's infamous 20-minute load times with  13 lines of code , gamers cheered - then demanded to know:  Why did Rockstar ignore this for 8 years?  Ibrahim Diallo pulls back the curtain on: The corporate bug lifecycle  - How obvious fixes get lost in backlogs forever Why "quick wins" rarely happen  in billion-dollar codebases The real metrics compani...

Ibrahim Diallo shares the unbelievable true story of: The million-dollar website powered by  Dell Optiplexes in a guy's living room How a Perl script and sheer stubbornness built a life-changing business Why today's developers  over-engineer  while Ron just shipped The moment they unplugged his jury-rigged "data center" What  Ron's sweaty panic  teaches us about real-world te...

Ibrahim Diallo takes you inside a surreal weekend where: A childhood dream of superpowers collides with adult reality at a Wealth Expo Tony Robbins turns a real estate conference into an emotional revival How high-energy events prime you for expensive "opportunities" The $32,000 stock trading course that couldn't deliver Why motivational magic fades (and what actually lasts) A hilari...

You wrote perfect documentation. Nobody read it. Ibrahim Diallo breaks down why knowledge transfer fails, and how to do it right: The documentation trap: Why writing everything down isn’t enough "It depends" syndrome: How over-explaining creates confusion The 3 rules of effective teaching : Specificity, repetition, and verification Why empathy beats completeness: What your audience  actu...

Remember when everyone had their own weird little corner of the internet? Ibrahim Diallo traces how: RSS died  – and took blog discovery with it Google's algorithm updates  buried personal sites alongside spam Social media addiction  rewired how we share ideas We now distrust  individual voices in favor of corporate content AI is cannibalizing  the very blogs it was trained on ...and why rebui...

A 15-second pause in real life is thinking. On a video call? It’s a crisis. Ibrahim Diallo breaks down: Why silence feels like failure  on Zoom (but not in person) How TV and TikTok trained us to fear pauses (3.5-second attention spans) The  brainstorming paradox : Why silence fuels creativity—but video kills it What political debates reveal about our  performance-based communication Why "dea...

In 2011, Ibrahim Diallo walked into a SEO content farm on the  worst possible day —hours after Google’s Panda Update wiped out millions of low-quality pages. Now, over a decade later, he breaks down: The SEO dark ages  when "content" meant keyword-stuffed garbage How Google’s Panda Update briefly saved the internet (before new problems emerged) Why today’s "high-quality content&quot...

After years at an AI-first company, Ibrahim Diallo has seen the reality behind the hype: AI accounted for less than 10% of the actual work. In this episode, he breaks down: Why building with AI isn’t about the AI itself, but everything  around  it The uncomfortable truth about "AI-powered" startups solving problems that don’t exist When AI actually delivers value (and when it’s just an e...

Think coding is just for Silicon Valley types? Think again. In this episode, Ibrahim Diallo, a self-taught dev with 30 years in tech, breaks down why  coding is now the ultimate career insurance , how AI is  actually  reshaping jobs (not how CEOs claim), and why  "just learning Python" won’t save you . Spoiler: The real skill isn’t writing code. It’s  thinking like someone who can . List...