Ayo stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop, his brows furrowed in frustration. For three days straight, he’d been stuck on the same bug. His Laravel backend kept returning a mysterious 500 error whenever he tried to update a user's wallet balance. He had written tests, refactored controllers, and even consulted ChatGPT. Nothing worked.
That weekend, he visited his uncle Tobi, the family’s tech hero. Uncle Tobi ran a growing fintech startup and was the CTO everyone in Lagos admired. Ayo hoped he’d finally get the clarity he needed.
They were in his uncle’s home office, surrounded by whiteboards filled with flow diagrams and startup slogans. Ayo explained the problem, walking him through the code on his laptop. His uncle scrolled through silently for a few moments.
Then, to Ayo’s surprise, Uncle Tobi sighed and leaned back.
“You’ve done everything right,” he said. “And the logic is clean. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong.”
Ayo was stunned. “You don’t know?”
His uncle smiled. “Even CTOs get stumped. What about AI? Have you asked ChatGPT or Copilot?”
Ayo nodded. “I did. Even tried regenerating the whole controller. No luck.”
Then his uncle grew quiet. “Then it’s time for a different kind of debugging.”
Ayo blinked. “What do you mean?”
“Have you prayed about it?”
The question seemed out of place at first. Pray? About a bug in his code?
His uncle continued, “God gave you the vision for the app, right? Why not ask Him for the wisdom to build it? James 1:5 says if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God.”
Ayo smiled at the memory. That conversation had changed everything.
That night, after the talk with his uncle, he shut his laptop, knelt beside his bed, and prayed. Not just a rushed “God help me” prayer, but a heartfelt one. He thanked God for the gift of creativity, admitted his frustration, and asked the Holy Spirit to help him see what he was missing.
He woke up the next morning with an idea: “Check the model observer.”
He jumped out of bed, opened his codebase, and sure enough—buried in a user observer was a rogue method updating wallet balances in a loop. That was the culprit.
He fixed the logic, ran the test, and watched all the green checkmarks roll in.
It worked.
That moment changed how Ayo approached everything. He still loved Laravel, still used AI tools, and still looked up to his uncle. But now, he coded with a different mindset:
God wasn’t just watching from above—He was involved. The Original Creator. The First Engineer. The One who could bring light into any logic error.
And every time Ayo hit a wall, he smiled, whispered a prayer, and said to himself,
“God mode: activated.”
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