Level Up or Be Left Behind: AI's Demand on Creativity
Exploring how AI is not replacing creativity, but amplifying it and demanding a higher level of skill and originality from creative professionals.
Túlio Ribeiro dos Anjos
Backend systems engineer working mostly in .NET, Java, AWS, and integrations: getting two systems to agree and stay agreed.
Campo Grande, Brazil · GMT-4 · backend contracts from 2026 · mail@tulio.org
01 / writing
all writing →Technical Interviews: Just Stop.
Technical interviews are cargo cult hiring. They're broken, artificial, and mostly performance art. It's time to stop pretending they work and try something better.
“Dumber”? No, Just Different. (And Maybe Better.)
Exploring how AI tools aren't making us dumber but shifting our cognitive focus to higher-level problem solving.
02 / built
all built →Oddsquake
backend system · live
A live dashboard for fast prediction-market moves and related catalysts.
Go · SQLite WAL · React · Vite · …
wingetdb
interactive tool · live
A static generator and public index for Windows Package Manager packages.
Go · Static HTML · Vanilla JS · GitHub Pages · …
Realtime Public Data API Atlas
case study · maintained
An atlas of public realtime data surfaces and the constraints that make them usable or dangerous.
Markdown · Public APIs · Realtime data · Data licensing
03 / work trace
all work →- Apr 2026–Present
Voice ordering and stale menus
Velozient / HungerRush · Remote contract
I am contracting at Velozient now, embedded with HungerRush on OrderAI, a voice ordering system for restaurants. I work on the .NET side of LLM calls, Twilio ConversationRelay, menu snapshots, Teams alerts, and the parts where a retry should not send the same order to the POS twice. It is still restaurant software: the customer wants food, the system wants edge cases.
.NET · ASP.NET Core · Twilio ConversationRelay · LLM agents · Microsoft.Extensions.AI · Teams webhooks · …
- Jun 2022–Nov 2025
Remote backend contract work
BairesDev · Remote
I did remote contract work for a few US products. There was fleet telematics with 150M+ daily vehicle signals, Shopify sync against a 100K+ item catalog, Lambda image processing, queues, reports, and privacy APIs. A lot of it was getting old and new systems to agree long enough for nobody to notice the seam.
C# · .NET · Java · Spring Boot · Angular · React · …