✨ Taught scuba, then English, then engineering. Led developer orgs, now teaching the models. Trust, but compile. Prev:@MidnightNtwk @Polkadot @NewRelic @Amazon
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If you're searching for a job rn, I highly recommend that you don't let a model tell your story for you.
Write down the facts before it fills the gaps.
lauren.md/
I just saw a little boy and his grandfather knocking acorns down from a tree with an actual sling shot. Homemade. Out of rubber bands and a tree branch.
Moving to this teeny Portuguese village has been SUCH a time machine.
Did we ever end up learning about how the TypeSafe team built all of that hype around the Jev launch?
That was some excellent developer marketing and I can't quite remember reading about the strategy behind it🤔
Lauren Lee retweeted
Hackathon judges have about 3 minutes with your project.
What actually happens in those 3 minutes? 🤔
I'm hosting an X Space this Friday to find out, with people who have judged, mentored and run hackathons:
@andrewdmaclean Staff Developer Educator at Twilio
@colleencodes Developer Advocate at GitLab
@JamesSwintonDev DevRel Lead at AG Grid
@CCafeo Community at nocodeops by Zapier
@FrancescoCiull4 Head of DevRel at Zerops
@adityaoberai DevRel Lead at Appwrite
⏰ Friday 30 October, 4pm UK (12pm ET / 9am PT)
🎤 Audio only, no camera, no slides
We'll cover judging, demos and the stuff nobody tells you. Like why the project with the best code doesn't always win.
If you've won (or lost) a hackathon, come up and tell us how 👀.
Over 2 weeks remaining on the @paypaldev hackathon with $60k+ cash prizes!
nitter.cf/i/spaces/1aJbdEj…
At midnight, AI kept inventing smart contract code, so my team checked every answer against the real compiler.
While job hunting, I wanted agents to get me right too. So I wrote lauren.md, a profile addressed to the agent, with rules: keep my work separate from my team’s, never guess my rate.
lauren.md/
Every role I’ve held since teaching high school English has been a teaching job at heart: @Amazon, @GoDaddy, @Vonage, and leading DevRel teams.
On this @CodingCatDev episode, I talk about why developer education determines whether a product gets adopted.
Podcast S1E18 with Lauren Lee (@LoLoCoding): Fostering Developer Education
We sit down with Lauren Lee (LoLoCoding) to talk about fostering developer education. We review how Lauren switched from being a teacher to become the Director of Community at Puppet
Before your next launch, open a coding agent and ask it to build hello world with your SDK. Don’t paste in any docs.
If it’s wrong, a developer will decide your SDK is broken. You won't get a second chance.
Your first impression is the agent's experience now.
Lauren Lee retweeted
LITERALLY my entire talk at @AllThingsOpen
I firmly believe that, with everything changing in the tech industry because of AI, developer relations is even more important than before. Why? Because we are slowly (or quickly) removing the human from every process, and devrel is all about the human connection.
Maybe I'm biased because it's a role I've been doing for years, I love it, I see the value for any company with services or products targeted at developers and... I love having a paycheck!
ALT Purple card for devrel hot take #3. A dark terminal window shows the command: fred --topic "humans-first", followed by a blinking cursor. Below it, a black-and-white cartoon of Fred's face, bald with glasses and a beard, sits next to the label "devrel hot take #3".
The deal I made myself: new job, new hair.
I have not found a new job.
Yet, here I am.
Turns out I can job hunt OR look busted, not both.
Hackathon judging is mostly theater.
So I ran all 164 submissions in their own disposable machines on @flydotio Sprites and checked what actually compiles.
113 built. 51 didn’t. Most events never find out.
The 33 that broke at the build step went to a coding agent, one machine each. 17 build now.
The agent never graded its own work. The harness reran every build itself.
Full walkthrough: youtu.be/wF4cn6Io_ek
If you run hackathons, the tool is here: github.com/laurenelee/hackju…
Teams deserve to be judged on what they built. Judges deserve to know what actually ran.
You can take the girl out of America, but she’ll still drive 30 minutes from her teeny village for a Starbucks PSL, just to feel like the basic B she once was 🎃
This is why I've stopped calling what I do developer relations.
The developers you're losing aren't filing a ticket.
They ask an agent, get confidently broken code, decide they aren’t smart enough, and leave.
Your dashboard calls it a good week.
Every DevRel team I know has this problem and no way to see it.
Writing tutorials is the lowest-value thing a DevRel team does in 2026.
Your reader asks a model first, the model answers from your docs, and the tutorial goes unread.
But companies keep publishing anyway, b/c it’s the output that’s easiest to count.
