Mohamed Bakayoko — Senior Full-Stack Developer, AI Engineer & Freelance Consultant in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. MEST Africa alumni. Building AI agents, fintech & web apps across West Africa. https://bakayoko.dev/en en hello@bakayoko.dev (Mohamed Bakayoko) Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:44 GMT Agentic Context Engineering turns an AI agent’s context into an evolving playbook. Learn how ACE uses generation, reflection, curation, and incremental updates to improve agents without fine-tuning model weights. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/agentic-context-engineering-ace-guide https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/agentic-context-engineering-ace-guide Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering Loop engineering is the discipline of designing the feedback cycles that make AI agents reliable: context, tools, checks, memory, retries, budgets, and stop rules. Here is a practical guide for engineering teams. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/loop-engineering-guide https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/loop-engineering-guide Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering A practical guide to the benefits of reverse proxies, load balancers, and API gateways, with clear rules for when and how to use each one. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/reverse-proxy-load-balancer-api-gateway https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/reverse-proxy-load-balancer-api-gateway Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform Engineering A practical blueprint for seeing what your deployed platform is doing with Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, and Terraform. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/getting-visibility-in-your-deployed-platform https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/getting-visibility-in-your-deployed-platform Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Platform Engineering Fine-tuning is the highest-leverage skill most developers are still outsourcing to a blog post they read six months ago. Here is a hands-on guide — from dataset preparation to deployment — that actually tells you what works, what does not, and what it costs. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/a-practical-guide-to-fine-tuning-ai-models https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/a-practical-guide-to-fine-tuning-ai-models Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering Generous flat-rate AI coding plans were always a VC-subsidized bridge, not a business model. Here is what is breaking, why it was inevitable, and how to keep your workflow provider-agnostic before the next price hike. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/the-end-of-the-cheap-coding-plan https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/the-end-of-the-cheap-coding-plan Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering AI agents are powerful but expensive at scale. Here's a practical guide to managing costs with the latest 2026 models -- from model tiering with GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1, and budget alternatives like Kimi K2.5 and Qwen 3.5, to caching, prompt optimization, and budget guardrails. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-cost-management https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/ai-agent-cost-management Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering AI coding agents are powerful but directionless without structure. Spec-driven development gives them the guardrails they need. A practical guide to specs, tools like Kiro and Spec Kit, and why this approach is becoming essential. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/spec-driven-development-in-the-ai-era https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/spec-driven-development-in-the-ai-era Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Engineering When I first started building AI agents at rooguys.com, I thought more agents meant better results. I was wrong. The real question isn't how many agents you need, but how they should work together. Mu https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/building-multi-agent-systems-sequential-vs-parallel https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/building-multi-agent-systems-sequential-vs-parallel Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents You have a platform that works. It handles millions of requests, serves thousands of users, and has been battle-tested over years. Now you need to add AI capabilities. Not a demo, not a prototype, but https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/integrating-ai-agents-into-legacy-platforms-a-technical-deep-dive https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/integrating-ai-agents-into-legacy-platforms-a-technical-deep-dive Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents Building AI agents is exciting. Deploying them to production? That is where the real challenges begin. Here are key lessons from real-world deployments. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/ai-agents-in-production-lessons-from-real-world-deployments https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/ai-agents-in-production-lessons-from-real-world-deployments Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents Everything you need to know to build your first AI agent, from understanding what they are to deploying one that actually works. https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/getting-started-with-ai-agents-a-beginners-guide https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/getting-started-with-ai-agents-a-beginners-guide Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents The landscape of artificial intelligence is undergoing a profound transformation. We are rapidly moving beyond static, reactive models to a new generation of autonomous AI agents—systems capable of in https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/governing-the-autonomous-a-deep-dive-into-ai-agent-governance-frameworks https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/governing-the-autonomous-a-deep-dive-into-ai-agent-governance-frameworks Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents Blog Governance The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, moving beyond single-query interactions to sophisticated, multi-step workflows orchestrated by AI agents. These agents, powered by large l https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/mastering-parallel-ai-agents-turbocharge-your-workflows-with-concurrent-execution https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/mastering-parallel-ai-agents-turbocharge-your-workflows-with-concurrent-execution Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Blog In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new architectural paradigm is gaining prominence: the sequential AI agent. This approach, which involves chaining together specialized A https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/building-sequential-ai-agents-a-guide-to-predictable-and-scalable-automation https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/building-sequential-ai-agents-a-guide-to-predictable-and-scalable-automation Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Blog The Rise of the Agents If you thought AI was moving fast, get ready for the next leap: AI agents. These aren’t your average chatbots. We’re talking about sophisticated AI systems that can autonomously https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/navigating-the-new-frontier-a-guide-to-ai-agent-governance https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/navigating-the-new-frontier-a-guide-to-ai-agent-governance Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents Governance I. Introduction The landscape of enterprise technology is undergoing a profound transformation with the emergence of AI agents, often referred to as Agentic AI. These systems represent the next evolut https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/the-autonomous-frontier-navigating-data-governance-in-the-age-of-ai-agents https://bakayoko.dev/en/blog/the-autonomous-frontier-navigating-data-governance-in-the-age-of-ai-agents Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI Agents Data Governance