Moriel Schottlender
@moriel.tech
Human-centered systems engineer. Localization is architecture, not translation. Occasional standup comedian. Currently working for the Wikimedia Foundation (opinions are my own!)
complexity in software behaves like energy in physics. it doesn't disappear. it moves. I made a video about this. it has physics. it has code. it has a skit filmed in my office with moustaches and wigs. come nerd out with me 🤓 youtu.be/jA82t0UIvhM
The Physics of Software: Conservation of Complexity
YouTube video by Moriel Schottlender
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Everyone's posting AI skills to make agents less sycophantic and more rigorous. I took it to its natural conclusion: I made a satirical skill pack that turns your AI into a 10x techbro with zero chill. No, I do not apologize. Deck for VCs dropping soon. github.com/mooeypoo/tec...
GitHub - mooeypoo/techbro-skills: A set of AI skills for 10x founder-engineers
A set of AI skills for 10x founder-engineers. Contribute to mooeypoo/techbro-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Entry-level tech jobs dropped 20% in two years. Everyone's blaming AI. I think we're measuring the wrong variable. Junior developers weren't hired for the boilerplate. Cutting them isn't a cost saving. It's eating your seed corn. blog.moriel.tech/posts/2026-0...
The Junior Developer Collapse
I'm worried about junior developers. Not because the field is dying — it isn't. But because we're setting a generation up to fail in a specific, preventable way.
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Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here" Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"
I asked AI to build an app iteratively and explain every assumption it made. The interesting part wasn't the code -- it was watching how early decisions quietly shaped everything that came after. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehRD...
I Let AI Build an App Step-by-Step. Here’s What It Revealed About Software Development
YouTube video by Moriel Schottlender
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Character counters looks trivial, but they're surprisingly more complex than we think. What are we counting? Bytes? Visible width? DB storage? Those aren't the same problem. But we use the same counters. Here's why "0/300" is more complex than it looks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvic...
What are we even counting? The problem of character counters
YouTube video by Moriel Schottlender
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We're entering a world where AI can generate entire codebases. That doesn't mean it understands the humans who use them. We have to take control over the human-contexts in software if we want our products to actually work. I try to make that point in a new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnC...
AI Can Write Code. It Can’t Understand Humans.
YouTube video by Moriel Schottlender
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