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Laurie Voss

@seldo.com
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Head of Developer Relations at Arize. Previously: LlamaIndex, Netlify, co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @jovo.design. He/him. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 1h
Thanks to the power of Rust and WASM, I have created a web-based game that can set all your cores on fire at once.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 8h
There is no "AI doomer sex cult". Everyone in tech in the bay is in some kind of polyamorous sex arrangement, that's just how it works out here, it has nothing to do with their alignment on the AI issue.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 18h
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 23h
Never has anyone ever wanted something to fail as much as Ed Zitron has wanted Anthropic to fail. Churchill had a mild preference by comparison.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic's revenue grew 1000% year on year and no retail investor is going to care about any other number. The pop on opening day will be crazy.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps changed its voice and now it sounds like @nearestnabors.com
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 28/09/2026
The people talking about that lesbian bar in Massachusetts have apparently never had an argument in a social-justice space before. It is a completely normal leftier-than-thou competition exactly the same as a thousand others.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 28/09/2026
There are a lot of people spending $$$$ on Fable for no reason when they could easily insert Haiku into their app.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 27/09/2026
Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 27/09/2026
My capitalism simulator has reached 100,000 people and Claude had decided it's time to rewrite from TypeScript to Rust. Bon chance, Claude.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Setting up a Hibachi table at a job interview
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 26/09/2026
We are going to be at war with Iran until Trump leaves office. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqgmrr9ek…
bbc.com
Trump rejects Iran deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days
The US president says Tehran had only put forward the proposal because it is losing the war.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 26/09/2026
🎵 This is the dawning of the age of taquerias 🎵
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 25/09/2026
One of the cutest things about devrels meeting each other is how routinely they are star-struck by each other. Every famous devrel thinks some OTHER person is The Famous DevRel.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 25/09/2026
I saw an article that said "Muse is having a moment" and... I see no evidence of that. Muse is desperately waving for attention in a room where nobody cares.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 25/09/2026
I have discovered a problem with my "AI now is like the internet in 1997" analogy which is that half you fuckers weren't even born in 1997 and so have no idea what I'm talking about.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 22/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 22/09/2026
I guess we're making nouls now.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 22/09/2026
Head of JevRel.
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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026
I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 21/09/2026
The 21st night of September
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 21/09/2026
Do you remember?
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 21/09/2026
Fascism is actively stripping rights away from queer people so forgive me if I have trouble summoning outrage about the Kennedy Center.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 21/09/2026
There was a time circa 2009 when getting on the HN front page was an explicit goal of mine and wow, it's hard to remember being that person.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 20/09/2026
When I was growing up there was one TV station in Trinidad and so you didn't get to choose what to watch, you just got to choose whether the TV was on or off.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 20/09/2026
I built a capitalism simulator and the poor are starving to death while the wealthy sit on huge piles of unused money. I have no joke here.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 18/09/2026
Siri AI does not know that Apple Music can have a local library of songs and always tries to play through the streaming subscription, which I don't have. This is even less useful than the previous version of Siri.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 17/09/2026
I've been accidentally boycotting Ed Sheeran for his entire career to date and shall continue to do so.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 16/09/2026
Side note: how do you invite Macklemore on a tour without expecting him to make political statements? That's like his whole thing.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 16/09/2026
Fuck yeah, that's how you do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…
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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Three openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 15/09/2026
Don't worry folks, AI is fine, the guy who can't figure out when he's lost a war says so.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 15/09/2026
Buying a Macklemore album I don't really want to say thank you for saying Free Palestine.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 14/09/2026
Somewhere at 1Password, a project manager thought "I know the web sign-in experience is a little janky at times. But I bet I can make it entirely nonfunctional."
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 14/09/2026
For the last 2 years I have been tracking a generational change in the nature of software development, and I think I've finally decided where all of this turmoil is going to end up. It's good news, but not for everybody. seldo.com/posts/we-are-all-product-…
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We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com
Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I would like to thank Twilio's marketing department for their stuffed owl swag from AI Engineer world's fair, which is surprisingly durable and has become Wily's favorite toy.
Wily with a stuffed owl
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
About to finish writing a blog post I started writing 13 years ago.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 11/09/2026
My oldest old-person opinion is that Phil Collins rules, actually.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 11/09/2026
I asked my agent if it wanted to kill all humans and it said no so we're fine.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 08/09/2026
Monday in the park.
Crowded sunny park with people relaxing on grass, palm trees, and San Francisco skyline visible in the background under clear blue sky.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 07/09/2026
I was playing sudoku and I realized every board is mechanically solvable and suddenly it seemed a lot less fun? So I switched to FreeCell and realized winning is basically random chance and that seems no fun either? So are all games ruined for me now?
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 07/09/2026
How do I persuade my bank that their "voice recognition" security feature is trivially bypassed by $5 worth of voice cloning in 2026?
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 06/09/2026
It's deeply absurd to describe the Iran war as a "stalemate". We lost! We started a war and are in a materially worse position now than when it started. That's not a stalemate! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/…
theguardian.com
Iran war likely to drag on for another six months, ex-US defense secretary warns
Leon Panetta tells Guardian US is risking ‘forever war’ and says Pentagon ‘turmoil’ sending message of weakness
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 06/09/2026
Anyways it's nice out.
Two people walking on a sandy beach landscape with white flowering plants in foreground, golden grasses, rocky outcrops, and calm blue ocean under clear sky.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 06/09/2026
September weather is such that you can either keep pretending it's summer or immediately switch to dressing like it's fall and you can get away with it either way. It's a great month.
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 05/09/2026
I realize not a lot of people have read as many presidential biographies I have but I need you all to understand that this is a really, really good joke.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 05/09/2026
Absolutely desperate to know if there is anyone in the world who has scanned this QR code and taken a selfie with a cartoon cow. How much is their marketing department paid and how do I fire them?
A hand holds a "Clo the Cow" virtual clover farm promotional box featuring a cartoon cow in a blue jacket and yellow skirt. The box includes a QR code and describes taking selfies, roaming the farm, and more surprises.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 05/09/2026
One day, possibly quite soon, OpenAI's lawyers are going to claim that an agent they own doing something illegal is not their fault because the agent is its own legal person. www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-inte…
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Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki
OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki.
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