Prompt Engineer or Generalist: Which Path Pays More and How to Break In in 2026
You’re on a lunch break, scrolling job posts with one eye on your bank app. One role says “Prompt Engineer — $160k.” Another says “AI Generalist — $95k to $130k.”…
Landing an Entry-Level Developer Job in 2026 When AI Writes Routine Code — A Practical 6‑Step Playbook
You’re in your apartment at 11:47 p.m., polishing your portfolio one more time. You paste a take‑home prompt into an AI tool “just to check your approach,” and it spits…
AI-Assisted Coding at Enterprise Scale: What Leaders Should Measure to Avoid Hidden Maintenance Costs
You just rolled out AI-assisted coding across the org. The demo was magic. PRs doubled. Everyone cheered. Then two months later, your on-call channel turns into a crime scene. The…
Rust’s Moment: Read the Production and Hiring Signals That Tell You Whether to Invest
You’re on call at 2:13 a.m. A service is flapping, CPU is fine, memory is fine, and yet the process is gone—again. The postmortem will say “use-after-free” in a library…
Integrate AI Coding Agents Without Technical Debt: Production-Proven Context Engineering Patterns
Last month, a staff engineer told me a story I can’t shake. Their team added an AI coding agent to “speed things up.” It worked—until the first production incident. Nobody…
Land Your First Developer Role When Entry-Level Jobs Vanish: Build a Portfolio, Pick a Niche, Get Certified
You did the “right” things. You finished the degree or the bootcamp. You built a few projects. Then you opened the job boards and saw it: “Entry-level” roles asking for…
Is TypeScript 7 Worth the Switch? A CTO’s checklist to get 8–10x builds without breaking CI
It’s 2:10 a.m. Your monorepo build is still running. The on-call channel is quiet, but you can feel the tension anyway. Tomorrow morning, someone will ask the same question they…
Migrate to React Compiler 1.0: a 60‑minute checklist to capture 10–30% speedups without regressions
You’re in a sprint review. Someone shares a screen recording: a list page that “feels sticky” when you type in the search box. You already tried memoizing a few components.…
Become a Prompt Engineer in 90 Days: the skills, projects, and salary targets you need for 2026
You’re in a meeting. Someone says, “We need better prompts.” All eyes turn to you because you’re the one who “gets” ChatGPT. You laugh, but inside you think: Could I…
Lock in Stability: Transition to Security‑Cleared Tech Roles Without Abandoning Your Creative Work
You’re on a Tuesday standup call, half listening, half watching Slack light up. Another “reorg” rumor. Another teammate quietly updating LinkedIn. You close your laptop and look at the other…