# Adewale "Ace" Abati

> Web Engineer and Staff Developer Advocate at Block. Writing, talks, and open-source projects on agentic AI, developer experience, and community building.

This site is the personal home of Adewale Abati (known online as "Ace" / @ace_kyd). It hosts long-form articles, a catalogue of conference talks, and a portfolio of open-source projects.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://adewaleabati.com/): Introduction, highlights, and links.
- [Blog](https://adewaleabati.com/posts): Articles on AI, open source, careers, and the web.
- [Talks](https://adewaleabati.com/talks): Conference and community speaking engagements.
- [Projects](https://adewaleabati.com/projects): Open-source projects and experiments.

## Recent writing

- [Agentic development for engineering teams](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/2026/agentic-development-for-engineering-teams): A practical look at how engineering teams can adopt agentic development across local workflows, code review, and CI/CD without losing trust, quality, or production safety.
- [Orchestrate complex workflows across multiple agents with goose](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/goose-orchestrate-multiple-agents): Coordinate multiple agents working in parallel with goose — researching, coding, reviewing, and testing at once, with goose keeping everything on track.
- [Beyond the Terminal: goose Controls Your Desktop with Peekaboo](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/goose-desktop-control-peekaboo): With v1.26, goose broke out of the terminal — the rebuilt Computer Controller extension gives it eyes and hands to see the screen and control any app on your Mac.
- [Celebrating Nigerian Open Source today](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/made-in-nigeria-today): A look at the evolution of Made in Nigeria, from a simple GitHub README to a structured, automated platform celebrating Nigerian open source projects.
- [Private by Default: Built-in Local Inference Models with goose](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/goose-built-in-local-inference): Run local models directly inside goose — no Ollama, no Docker, no server. A free, offline, zero-dependency path to using goose, powered by llama.cpp.
- [My year in AI](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/my-year-in-ai): A reflective look at a year working with agentic AI in the real world — from MCPs and goose to real workflows, non-engineers, and team-scale software development.
- [How to Find the Right Mentor (And How to Be One)](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/how-to-find-the-right-mentor): My personal experience with mentorship—from watching from a distance to guiding others, and what I’ve learned from both sides of the journey.
- [The Pursuit of Greatness - Is ‘Great’ a comparative or a choice?](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/is-great-comparative): Is the pursuit of greatness marked by a trophy? A feeling relative to the greatness of our peers - i.e being comparative? or is it simply about becoming better than who you were yesterday?
- [How does it end?](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/how-does-it-end): Many things come in the way of getting things done - most especially overthinking.
- [Top 5 MCP Servers I Use as a Developer with Goose](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/top-5-mcp-servers-goose): The MCP servers I actually use almost every day with Goose, and how they plug AI into my existing developer workflow without changing how I work.
- [Vibe Coding with Goose and the Speech MCP](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/vibe-coding-goose-speech-mcp): Build an app just by describing it out loud. The Speech MCP server brings voice-driven vibe coding to Goose — turning natural language into working code.
- [Introducing codename goose](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/introducing-codename-goose): Announcing codename goose — your on-machine, open source AI agent built to automate your tasks, powered by your choice of LLMs, extensions, and a friendly desktop and CLI.
- [Are the rubber ducks getting smarter](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/are-the-rubber-ducks-getting-smarter): Like many people, the solution to a coding problem I’ve struggled with suddenly appears when I try to explain it to someone or something. Sometimes even while sleeping. How are new AI tools changing the way we debug and write code?
- [Previewing goose v1.0 Beta](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/previewing-goose-v1-beta): A preview of goose v1.0 Beta — the key new features and improvements that make goose more powerful and user-friendly.
- [Down, Down, Down the TBD Road](https://adewaleabati.com/posts/down-the-tbd-road): TBD winds down, but what does this mean for the projects we've been working on. And what does it mean for me?

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## Contact & profiles

- GitHub: https://github.com/acekyd
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@acekydtv
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/acekyd
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ace_kyd
- Newsletter: https://acekyd.substack.com