Tamara Martinović

Biochem PhD turned self-taught dev at 37. AI engineer by day, building apps for fun by night. Sometimes I even finish them 😉

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

I started coding at 37 after spending 10+ years in academia as a molecular biologist.
By accident. No grand plan. No childhood prodigy story.
Just curiosity, a laptop, and the extremely dangerous discovery that making computers do things is addictive 😊

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@Kinza1278 You go girl!! The biggest win of all, congratulations! Did you throw the hat in the air? 😊

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@jessyka_boat @_MaxBlade I ike your setup :)

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

X's verdict on my fun game: 2 comments, 1 like.
Worthless.

I shared it on LinkedIn too. I found out one of the biggest names in the Croatian dev scene had quietly shared it on Hacker News 🤩

Thank God I connected Vercel analytics!
I feel like I split the atom with my hands 😂

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@JochenGladbhuaf Oh I am no such thing 😊 Nope, no biology. I build multi agentic systems with LangGraph mostly, but we're basically building a digital employee!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

Last night I made a dumb little game where AI goes haywire on a Friday afternoon 😂

Every choice is reasonable. Every choice ends the same way. You can't win, that's the joke 😁

Try it out and have fun! 👇

https://t.co/MfHdlSoUWN

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@Jbm_dev Year of AI 🤣

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@JochenGladbhuaf @asaio87 I do work from home, but no, you can't find me there. I have a full time job as an AI engineer, but I take part time projects on the side and build my own stuff 😉

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@koki7o I turned 40 a few days ago :) I'm building left and right, too many things at once, there's a post with all my projects on my profile if you want to check them out!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@DanielSmidstrup I'm almost never out of ideas. My brain works on overdrive, I juggle too many things at once, my problem is that I have too much to post about 😀

I just made a game, check it out 😊

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@_3rdi That means you succeeded!! 🤣

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@moonfarm_dev Same wishes to you too 😉

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@stijnvwx Still searching 😉

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@nickventuri That's exactly why I want to talk about them, they were still good ideas!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

A lot of you saw my post about starting over in your 30s.

Here's the receipts. Most of it never saw the light of day, but you don't get the ones that work without building the ones that don't 😉

It's never too late. It's just a lot of late nights 🤣

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@SinmideleD @loaibassam I'll pass it along ;)

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@kennytjay Great to connect Kenny! Do you have slight ADHD as well, considering all the multitasking? 😀

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

Things I was told I was too late for at 37:
– learning to code
– switching careers
– being good enough to be respected at it

Today I'm an AI engineer, I build my own things on the side, and my life has never been better.

Whatever you think you're too late for - you're not! 🥳

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@AveryChernin Well most of them never saw the light of day 😀

The only one that I actually pushed out there into the void and tried to monetize is Welcome book, got one customer down, another in the pipeline!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@KuppaPrash Thank you!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@LittlePeapicker 😀 Thanks!

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

I've got 99 followers and a bitch ain't one 😂

Thank you guys, it's nice to see someone actually reads my ramblings! ☺️

[Tamara Martinović @CodeWithTamara]

@Jbm_dev Haha :)