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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 17/03/2025

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

A hastily sketched graph of programmer salaries on the X axis, and # of programmers on the Y axis, with two lines: a "before" distribution and an "after" distribution. The "before" distribution has a higher average salary, but there are less of them. The "after" distribution includes the entire "before" but is much larger, although with a lower average.

Nate Kohari @nate.io · 12/03/2025

Over the past few months, I've gotten about a half dozen offers to do interviews for remote jobs, after which a team of people would do the actual work and I would be paid 50% of the salary. For someone trying to run a real remote company, it's infuriating.

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Dave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 22/02/2025

I’m not giving money to Democratic incumbents unless there’s a plan and it isn’t the usual bullshit.

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David Imel @davidimel.com · 20/01/2025

Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms @ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 19/01/2025

What the f is Lemon8

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 10/12/2024

One of my biggest mental breakthroughs was when I changed my mindset from "This system is stupid and I'm going to spend all my energy fighting it." to "Even though this system is stupid, I'm going to operate within it to my advantage." Much better results, way less stress.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 19/01/2025

This might be the most niche joke of all time and I love it

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 07/01/2025

Never in the history of software has a library had more breaking changes between majors than React Router

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 29/12/2024

It feels like the technology arms race between candidates and recruiters is accelerating. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of companies (especially smaller ones) stop allowing direct applications and instead source 100% of candidates from warm intros. blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-automa...

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How I Automated My Job Application Process. (Part 1)

A developer automated job applications, sending 250 in 20 minutes using Python scripts and GPT

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 26/12/2024

Some of y’all didn’t watch Wishbone as a kid and it shows

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 26/12/2024

The job market is so brutal that employers are just putting the rejection right in the JD

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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Critical thoughts (long form) for saving a democracy: Where we go from here. medium.com/@lessig/wher...

So that government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires shall soon parish from the earth.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 10/12/2024

Indie hacking has always been this way. Sharing what you’re building is great, but time spent posting about your MRR is time not spent talking to customers or building your product. It’s all masturbatory. Just build.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 10/12/2024

I think I inadvertently followed the wrong people on here because my feed has been full of pro-murder “revolution” nonsense for days. Like there’s no amount of blocking or muting that can stop it. I keep waiting for it to burn off but it hasn’t happened yet.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 08/12/2024

For the past few days my feed has been like 50% jokes about murder, cool Love social media really a major plus in my life

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

if you're a tech journalist in the present climate, it's incumbent upon you to ask why big tech is pursuing dead ends like AI when they could just start using the number 2. ones and zeroes have taken us as far as they can. either chuck a few 2s in there or cede the future of tech to those who will

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 04/12/2024

Someone I follow is reposting so much my whole feed is full, and I would be annoyed but they’re 100% bangers

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

What are some examples of great CLI tools for developers?

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

Finding founding engineers is hard. Really hard. It’s tough to find someone with the combination of skill and appetite for risk, who also doesn’t want to try to start their own thing. (For clarity, I’m offering at- or above-market comp in both salary and equity.)

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

Yeah, I’m not sure how sophisticated this survey was. Anecdotally, lots of zoomers I’ve interacted with had very weird ideas about money, but then I’m not really close with any of them

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

I need a filter for people ending their posts in obvious engagement-bait questions, especially since it doesn't really work on here. What do you think? Let me know in the replies

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

When I was in my 20s, $600K/year was an unthinkable, unattainable yearly salary.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

Can't help but think this is primarily the influence (no pun intended) of social media

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 03/12/2024

👋 still getting started on here, but building ardent.ai

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Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

instead of scolding young people into having kids, try telling them that someday a crying baby turns into an eight year old full of wonder, and you will get to see art (or baseball games, or video games, or whatever you love) anew through their huge excited eyes

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

if bluesky doesn’t make it i’m not downloading another app imma just start screaming all my thoughts at the sun

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

That garbage brain meme infected my entire feed on Twitter Baby brain nonsense

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

I swear if any of you posts a fucking wojak on here I’m hitting the block button so hard my phone will melt into slag

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

What about cybersecurity porn It’s kind of a niche market though I’d imagine

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

BlueSky is probably my last attempt at social media. If it doesn’t work, I think I’ll just give it up categorically.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Good to see you again! My experience is similar. I gave Twitter one last chance, even buying premium to see if no ads would help. It’s too far gone to be salvaged at this point. Not only is it a cesspool, it’s full of people who know they’re swimming in a cesspool and want to continue doing so.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

I have a license to Tailwind UI, which has been useful at times. I don’t use it directly though, just as example implementations

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

What I’m really wondering is whether I should copy my tweets over. I’m not especially attached to them, but it feels weird to have 14 years of history and start with a blank page here

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Sara Likes Hockey @helmerroids.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Please don't reply to my posts with facts I am trying to be an idiot

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Why is this so accurate

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

I've tried to convince people that understanding and managing coupling is the most important part of software design -- it's the reason why I've built several DI frameworks throughout my career. It's tough to imagine 300+ pages on the subject though :)

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Inside you there are two wolves

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Kind of surprising to see all of JetBrains' revenue here, especially marked back to 2022. AFAIK their products didn't have any AI features until December 2023.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

It seems like a good litmus test of someone's experience with software is whether they refer to people who build software as "developers" (or "engineers") or as "coders".

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

It's definitely a hard time to start a career in software! It just seems much more related to the macroeconomic environment (eg. end of ZIRP) than to AI. Companies got really over-bloated during the ZIRP era, and I think the surge of recent layoffs are more of a return to the mean than anything.

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

AutoGPT is a barely functioning prototype that no one takes very seriously But either way — if you really do think you know better than me, nothing I say is going to convince you otherwise. So best of luck!

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Joomla is a framework, not a language, and Perl is spelled as such Again it’s great to be excited about the possibilities for AI, but expecting (or hoping) that it’ll replace engineers is a result of being under-informed

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

Sorry I can’t help it

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

You really don’t. You might think you do, but what I’m saying is you don’t know what you don’t know. It’s great to be excited by new tech but it’s just another tool. The industry has gone through several of these phases already (internet, web, mobile, social, document dbs, etc)

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Nate Kohari @nate.io · 01/12/2024

AI will obviously have an impact, but software engineering as a profession isn’t going anywhere. Architecture and maintenance remain the biggest challenges and AI models aren’t useful there. (For context, I’ve been an engineer for 20 years and am currently building a company around AI.)

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