Kifiya is hiring. Highly recommend if you are working locally.

Dev roles:

- Senior Backend Engineer
- Lead, Backend Engineer (Marketplace)
- Full Stack Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- Senior AI/ML Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Data Researcher
- Senior QA Engineer
- Technical Product Owner
- Head, Cyber Security

They pay well, one of the highest paying in the country.

source: https://kifiya.com/work-with-us

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New opportunity at AfterQuery. You can sell your private repos.

Atrium buys private codebases for AI training data. Quote in a couple of days.

What it pays: based on codebase size, years of history, and team size.

• Solo, small, 2 months of history: $900 to $2,700
• Large, 4+ years, real team: $30,000 to $90,000

So anywhere from $100 to $90,000.

Advise you to only submit repos you actually own. Not your employer's, not a client's. The
questionnaire asks if you're authorized and I never saw how they check, so try to be responsible.

I submitted and I'm still waiting on the official quote, no money yet. That last
review step took days and I stopped waiting to post this. I'll update you.

I would appreciate if you use my referral link when you sign up. Gets me $100 when a deal completes.

https://atrium.afterquery.com/r/PP5MVG

Or code PP5MVG at signup. Only works at signup, not after.


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Video: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DbJQQKQviHq

this is so cool. if you play any music you'll appreciate it even more, i tried it (it wasn't easy as it look).

Left hand picks the chord, right hand plays it. it has:

- all 7 scale degrees, major or minor
- 4 voicings: triad, first inversion, 7th, dominant/diminished 7th
- distortion, volume, octave drop, all 12 keys


Site: gesture-synth-weld.vercel.app

Creator: https://www.instagram.com/indecisive.eric

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Thinking about diversifying my income stream.

giving upwork one more shot

the good thing about upwork is, if you manage to get jobs now, you have a public track record and reputation anyone can check. not just inside your client's network. which is where mine currently lives. of course, the fees hurt.

these ethiopian freelancers motivated me:

https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/talent/?loc=ethiopia&revenue=100000

you can tweak the filter in the url

Also: https://upworkmrr.com

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Fern gets really technical on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6d8Yy7Ji68

you might like it

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DAB is building a data annotation roster. Deadline is today.

They reached out to me directly. They're bidding on a data annotation contract and need 3000+ people lined up before it closes. If they win, everyone on the roster gets a direct shot at the work.

They want anyone who's done image, text, audio, or video annotation, or annotation QA review.

To apply:
- CV as PDF
- subject line: Data Annotation
- mention your city and availability
- send to dabdrt@gmail.com or consult_dab@dabdrt.com

One thing before you send. Put your annotation work near the top of your CV and spell it out. If you've worked at Turing, Revelo, AfterQuery or similar, don't just write Software Engineer and leave it there, name the annotation and QA review part. Same for any labeling or model evaluation you've done on the side. That's what they're filtering for.

Share it with anyone who fits.

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Correction on the DAB post, second one.

They're not hiring annotators. They run data annotation courses backed by Mastercard, and who they actually need is trainers to teach those courses.

It's a paid role. So this is for you if you've done annotation work and can teach it to a room of beginners. If you were applying hoping for labeling work, that's not what this is.

Same as before, CV as PDF to dabdrt@gmail.com or consult_dab@dabdrt.com with Data Annotation as the subject. Say you're applying as a trainer.

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Deadline is today. Apply yourself, or DM me and I'll recommend you.

✍️

https://t.me/samsonendale/19

3 companies to keep an eye on

all three are more than willing to hire ethiopian devs. bookmark them, openings come and go fast.

the work is AI automation and full stack, forward deployed. one engineer sits inside the client team and ships it end to end.

AY Automate
building AI agents and automations inside client teams. they want proof you shipped at least one into production. n8n, python, next.js or cloud infra. remote and async.
https://www.ayautomate.com/careers

AI Makers
small shop building private OpenClaw-based AI assistants. no careers page, Mark posts roles on linkedin.
https://www.aimakers.co
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7485327779023007744/

Backbase
dutch banking software, the big one here. board is global and moves fast.
https://www.backbase.com/careers/jobs

apply through the portal on their site. for AI Makers, follow the linkedin post.

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You're killing your brain between prompts.

With agentic coding your brain already does less. You're not writing the code, you're reviewing structure and making architecture calls, and even those you brainstorm with the agent. An MIT EEG study confirmed it: the more the AI does, the less your brain engages.

And what do we fill that downtime with? Reels and tiktok. Scrolling short-form videos in that gap is becoming the normal thing to do. We barely notice it, but it slowly hurts our performance and hides what we could do with that time.

Two things fixed this for me.

1. The weekends-only rule. No insta, no yt shorts on weekdays, apps uninstalled. Any long-form video is fine, entertainment, podcasts, whatever. Preferably content that doesn't ask much of your focus, because that spends your focus too.

Everything comes back on weekends. You can't quit shorts completely (I couldn't), it's a source of info and entertainment as well. So don't quit, schedule.

3rd month on this rule and my focus is the best it's been.

2. Parallel projects. Takes some adjusting at first, but run multiple projects at once. I do 4-5 sometimes. While one agent works you switch to the next project, so there's no dead time to get pulled into a feed. I'll share the tools that made parallel sessions work for me (orca, herdr) in another post. But you can add claude notifications to whatever setup you have today, wrote about that here.

We can take on more work than we think. Instead of scrolling between prompts, say yes to that additional opportunity and fill that time with real work.

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RustLabs is opening new projects. AI training jobs.

Short application, no interview. The work is annotation, evals, rubrics, agent traces. Hourly and remote, $20 to $100+.

Six fields: software engineering, ML engineering, finance and accounting, science and STEM, legal, medical.

The onboarding questions take weeks to come back. When they land, tick every domain you can actually do, not just your main one.

Would appreciate if you use my referral link:

https://experts.rustlabs.ai/apply?ref=3c25btqq

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