Tag: engineering

All the articles with the tag "engineering".

• The Forward Deployed Engineer Boom Is an Admission

  Published:Jun 5, 2026 |  at 03:00 PM

  a16z calls it the hottest job in tech and the AI labs are hiring them by the hundred. The forward deployed engineer isn't a new kind of engineer — it's an admission about where the hard part of AI actually lives.

• The Speedup Trap: What AI Did to Engineering Expectations

  Published:Jun 1, 2026 |  at 04:00 PM

  AI made writing code faster. Organizations turned that into a mandate. The problem is that the speedup is the one part of the job that got easier — and it's the part nobody was struggling with.

• Left on Read: Exploring the Surge in Recruiter Ghosting

  Published:Nov 7, 2024 |  at 12:28 PM

  Trying to make sense of what's happening in the hiring space in 2024 as high interest rates, mass layoffs, and AI transform reality before our eyes. Has ghosting crept from the dating world into the professional one?