Location: Austin, Texas
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Go(Golang), Python, C#, C, Jenkins, Kubernetes, miscellaneous other things, if I don't know it I'll learn it.
Résumé/CV: mongoosestudios.github.io
Email: Located on the about page (not the landing page) of the link above.
Mostly a back end dev. I've done a little front end and DevOps work here and there. Vibe Coding, AI, and crypto shops need not apply.
Location: Austin, Texas
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Go(Golang), Python, C#, C, Jenkins, Kubernetes, miscellaneous other things, if I don't know it I'll learn it.
Résumé/CV: mongoosestudios.github.io
Email: Located on the about page (not the landing page) of the link above.
Mostly a back end dev. I've done a little front end and DevOps work here and there. Vibe Coding and AI shops need not apply.
Location: Austin, Texas
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Go(Golang), miscellaneous other things, if I don't know it I'll learn it.
Résumé/CV: mongoosestudios.github.io
Email: Located on the about page (not the landing page) of the link above.
I'm sick of AI everything. Every day I hope today is the day the grift machine finally implodes.
In the short term it's going to make things suck even more, but I'm ready to rip that bandaid off.
P.S. To anyone that is about to reply to this, or downvote it, to tell me that AI is the future, you should be aware that I also hope someone places a rotting trout in your sock drawer each day.
I get this take because of the existential threat, but it ignores that at least right now, LLMs are enabling people to get more from their computer than ever before.
Maybe LLMs can't build you an enterprise back-end for thousands of users. But they sure as shit can make you a bespoke applet that easily tracks your garage sale items. LLMs really shine in greenfield <5k LOC programs.
I think it's largely a mistake for devs to think that LLMs are made for them, rather than for enabling regular people to get far more mileage out of their computers.
No hate mate it's real that ai can really code anything u need but the brutal fact is you need to be much smarter to validate its code all I can see is skill and xp issue. But as Rust node Js dev I made ultra fast http framework using AI with just 200 lines of code it had beaten fastify hono and express. It's all possible just because of my xp in ffi and Rust with node js Architect lessons.
I wrote about that too. Somewhere along the way we turned the quirky oldschool blogs into a sort of CliffsNotes on a topic. They became way less cool as a result.
Blogs still exist to a certain degree, but they are different. Now they tend to be either more formal and journalist-ey, or a thinly veiled advertisement. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the former, and if the latter is cloaked in a genuinely useful tutorial on some particular tool/technology then I can’t really begrudge them their plug. But they both lack some of that old magic.
Location: Austin, Texas
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Back end dev primarily
Résumé/CV: mongoosestudios.github.io
Email: Located on the about page (not the landing page) of the link above.
Hundreds of applications since I was laid off in November. Working a trash entry level job in an unrelated field to try and pay the bills. The market is absolute garbage.
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