Nika

We keep hearing: “Juniors won’t stand a chance.” But companies are still opening internships, which suggests something deeper than just skill-building still matters (like understanding systems, workflows, and how companies actually operate – the management part). At the same time, AI is changing how we learn: Instead of building skills from scratch, we often "copy-paste" them. Instead of...

Yesterday, Jay Graber (Former Bluesky's CEO) introduced Attie – the first agentic social app on Atproto. (currently as an invite-only closed beta) It should allow users to: – create custom social feeds and, eventually, – build their own apps on the open AT Protocol (atproto) – it’s similar to Grok in that it reads and understands posts AND that's where users of Bluesky started criticising Jay,...

At YC, investors outlined 8 startups across space, AI, gaming, and agriculture (most of them want to bet on futuristic ideas, e.g. space), and these sparked interest in funding them. This was the pick: Beyond Reach Labs – satellite solar arrays that expand from table-size to football-field size in orbit – Est. valuation: ~$100M+ Byteport – next-gen file transfer protocol – Est. valuation: ~...

Today, @gabe and the Product Hunt team launched Randomised Leaderboard Day. I need to say that I enjoy every gamification aspect which this platform offers. PH Streaks PH Kitty points Leaderboard Todays Randomised Leaderboard (Partially) Orbit Awards It makes me stick to this platform for longer and enjoy participating. I can bet this community has many ideas for similar "sub-projects" that...

I keep hearing and reading about how programmers are at risk; basically, everything that can be replaced by AI is at risk. Yesterday, Lenny Rachitsky shared a post that PM openings are at the highest levels since 2022. At the same time, I read how big giants (Meta, Amazon, etc.) are laying off engineers because of AI, and then I read about how they had to hire back again because something...