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Articles by Tomas Laurinavicius
Tomas is a self-taught developer who builds software products with AI, ships open-source tools including Bordful, and runs Laupix, a fully autonomous code-first company with zero human employees. He works with Next.js, Python and PostgreSQL daily.
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