Nate
Lemos

I'm a software engineer at Silktide. I build AI tools and write about the reality of working with them.

Previously at Microsoft and 343 Industries. Brazilian-born, US-based, and usually caffeinated.

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About me

The long version

I've been writing software professionally since 2013. I started my career in Brazil doing C# for banking systems, eventually moved to the US to work at 343 Industries on the backend for Halo Infinite, and spent over two years at Microsoft on the Azure Portal team.

Currently, I'm at Silktide building AI-driven tools for marketing and accessibility. My day-to-day is a mix of TypeScript, LLM orchestration, and figuring out why a model decided to give a very confident, very wrong answer.

Outside of work, I DM a weekly D&D campaign, play guitar with more passion than skill, and share my house with two dogs, two cats, and a flock of quails.

Featured project

Cooking with Robots

A recipe app built for messy kitchens. It features a hands-free mode so you don't have to touch your phone while cooking, and an AI assistant that plans your meals based on your pantry.

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Work history

Silktide

Backend Engineer · 2025 – Present

Building AI-powered accessibility and marketing tools using Node.js and LLMs.

Microsoft

Software Engineer II · 2022 – 2025

Owned core experiences in the Azure Portal, handling traffic for over 100k weekly users.

Fresh Consulting

Team Lead · 2019 – 2022

Led a team building logistics and tracking systems for industrial clients.

343 Industries

Software Engineer · 2018 – 2019

Backend services and stats processing for Halo Infinite.

More projects

LLabsM

My playground for experimental AI tools and open-source experiments.

GitHub · AI Tools

N2tl.EventBroker

A lightweight EventBroker implementation for .NET dependency injection.

C# · NuGet
Writing

Latest posts

The $700 billion AI paradox: why 90% of companies see zero impact

An NBER study dropped last week that should make everyone stop and think. Researchers surveyed nearly 6,000 executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. The finding: 90% of firms reported AI ...

Cursor and the Netflix effect: why every AI company will come crawling back

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AI Agents Write Your Code, But Who's Watching the Supply Chain?

Spotify's best engineers haven't written a single line of code since December. Anthropic says 70-90% of its own codebase is AI-generated. Claude Code just crossed $2.5 billion in annualized re...