2 posts tagged with "ai"

The hard part about keeping your skills current is not finding courses, repos, or newsletters. It is deciding what deserves real time when the market keeps throwing new tools at you. For most software engineers in many hiring markets, a better 2026 plan is narrower: build one marketable skill cluster, one systems-level foundation, and one project that proves you can use both.

Most advice about AI in hiring stops at resume tailoring. That is still useful, but it is not where the biggest gain is in this market. When openings are tighter, screens are heavier, and too many candidates are sending fast low-signal applications, the real value of AI is triage: deciding which roles deserve effort, where your evidence is actually strong, what needs to be verified, and how to prepare for a slower, more skeptical process.