Tunde Michael

Notes & Letters

Two registers. One writer.

Notes are the technical work — engineering, AI systems, the craft of building. Letters are the essays, the Dear Protégé series, and what Nigeria keeps teaching me. Both live here.

All writing
All Notes Letters
Letters Draft

Money Plenty, Light No Dey

₦263 trillion in domestic capital sits idle while 230 million Nigerians share 5,801 megawatts. We are already a nation of paying power customers — we just happen to be paying everyone except a functional grid.

Notes Draft

Building TM Power Workstation: a single-developer agent pipeline

Why I stopped trying to hire a team and built one out of LLMs instead — and the dependency-graph engine that makes it work.

Letters Draft

The Crime of Being Ordinary

In a world where being ordinary is a crime, pausing to help the next man becomes breaking the law.

Notes Draft

Direct LLM inference vs. Bedrock: when each one wins

A field report from running production workloads against both. Cost, latency, and the subtle differences in how prompts behave across providers.

Letters Draft

Dear Protégé — letter one

The opening of a running correspondence with the version of you that is still becoming.

Notes Draft

Multi-tenant storefront rendering on a single Spring Boot host

How the StoreBounty engine serves dozens of domains from one JVM — and the request-pipeline trade-offs that made it possible.