Kevin Naidoo

@kwnaidoo

Passionate & experienced tech leader

Durban, South AfricaJoined September 2023

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I am a South African-born tech leader with 15+ years of experience in software development including Linux servers and machine learning.

My passion is web development and teaching. I often love experimenting with emerging technologies and use this blog as an outlet to share my knowledge and adventures. Learn about Python, Linux servers, SQL, Golang, SaaS, PHP, Machine Learning, and loads more.

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Why AGI is a Pipe Dream and what we should build instead

I have been thinking about where we are at with AI in 2026; I think most models have now reached their intelligence ceiling. They’ll get incrementally better over time, sure, but there’s a big difference between 10% to 80% and 80% to 100%. In most te...

Feb 129 min read

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Django cheat sheet

I move around frameworks quite a bit, usually between Golang, Next.js, Laravel, and Django. So I forget stuff all the time. In this article, I want to throw together a cheat sheet of sorts with some random things I use in Django; hopefully, it’s also...

Nov 29, 202510 min read

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Workhorse AI models you probably ignored

While the whole YouTube influencer space goes crazy about Gemini 3, I’m not so impressed. Don’t get me wrong, Gemini models are fantastic! And the V3 iteration is undoubtedly cool and capable. I’ve briefly run some tests (not benchmarks but actual re...

Nov 20, 20254 min read

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~Zod and React Hook Form

I’m learning Next.js; I know React or kinda know React since I started building React apps in 2018 or thereabout, and then stopped using it for several years. Shew! A lot has changed: Server actions, Zod, and just the whole ecosystem generally. This ...

Aug 30, 20257 min read

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Hitchhiker's guide to AI for beginners

This will be more of an FAQ-style article, which is divergent from my regular content, but I wanted to write a guide for non-technical people or people unfamiliar with AI. You hear all these buzzwords, and they may be scary or intriguing. You want to...

Aug 25, 202511 min read

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~Zod and React Hook Form

Hitchhiker's guide to AI for beginners

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Kevin Naidoo's blogs

Recently published

Why AGI is a Pipe Dream and what we should build instead

Django cheat sheet

Workhorse AI models you probably ignored

~Zod and React Hook Form

Hitchhiker's guide to AI for beginners