Olli Paloviita

Olli Paloviita

Co-Founder at ScreenCI

About

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, backend architecture, and technical leadership. I build reliable, scalable software with experience across healthcare, medical technology, and robotics. I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and turning ideas into products. I've led the development of medical technology platforms from concept to beta launch, improved engineering practices, strengthened testing and CI/CD pipelines, and fostered collaboration across teams. I also enjoy mentoring developers and helping teams deliver high-quality software. Outside of work, I enjoy playing guitar, hiking, running, and board games. I'm always interested in connecting with people building impactful software.

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Maker History

  • ScreenCI
    ScreenCIProduct videos that automatically update on every release
    Jul 2026
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntApril 2nd, 2026

Forums

Do programmers even feel like programmers anymore?

Saw a post from an 8-year dev this week. He said any junior with an agent now matches his output, and he feels no pride left in it. It got huge, because a lot of people quietly feel the same.

I read it from the other side. I'm a designer, not an engineer. For years "can you build this" meant "find someone technical and pray they stay interested." Usually they didn't. AI took the thing that hurt that dev and handed it to me.

Same shift. Loss from one seat, freedom from another.

I'm shipping a Mac app solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke.

2mo ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

How do you stay aware of what your AI coding agents are doing?

I've been running Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex pretty heavily for the last few months and I keep hitting the same loop:

1. Start a task in one agent

2. Switch to something else (Slack, Twitter, another terminal)

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