How to vibe code without getting dumber
On March 5th, Amazon’s North American marketplaces went down. 6.3 million orders lost. Amazon engineer: “People are becoming so reliant on AI that essentially they stop reviewing the code altogether.” Connect the dots? Everyone’s vibe coding now. Prompt in. ➡️ Code out. ➡️ Ship it. ➡️ Next feature. And honestly? For getting something working fast, it’s remarkable. Cursor, Claude, […]
OpenAI asked him this question. I still can’t believe it.
Last week I caught up with one of the participants in our 6-week AI Project Challenge. Let’s call him Robert (name changed for privacy). Robert said something that stuck with me: “Our skill set is supposedly in very high demand, but I’ve never had a harder time finding a job.” Here’s the story: Robert has […]
The layoffs aren’t the story. This is.
I want to show you two numbers. 50,000. That’s how many tech workers were laid off in the first 60 days of 2026. 24%. That’s how much the stock price of Block jumped the day Jack Dorsey announced he was cutting half his workforce. (A company making $10 billion in annual profit fired 4,000 people […]
How to double your impact in any presentation
This morning I ran the kickoff call for our third AI Engineering Challenge cohort. Ten people on the call. DevOps engineers, cloud architects, a physicist, a cybersecurity pro, a Java developer at Adobe. Different countries, different backgrounds. I walked them through the project they’ll be building over the next 6 weeks — their digital twin. […]
The 5-point checklist we give our challengers
So we’re running a 6-Week AI Project Challenge. The first cohort is 3 weeks in, i.e. half-way. I had a call with them yesterday, and I noticed something. The people making progress? It’s not about their background. We have engineers, analysts, career changers. It’s not about coding ability. Some are fluent in Python. Some are […]
AI won’t take your job (if you do this)
Most people think about AI wrong. They see automation. Fewer workers. Job cuts. And that’s terrifying — if that’s the only way to think about it. But there’s another way: augmentation. Not AI replacing you. AI amplifying you. Same number of workers. More output. Better work. Here’s why augmentation wins: 1. Adoption. When companies push […]
Two signals that get you hired
I got a spam email this morning. A staffing agency pitching their AI talent services. I almost deleted it. But then I looked closer. These cold email agencies do their research. They know what makes companies respond. They’ve tested thousands of messages. So what did they lead with? Speed. Two of their three bullet points […]
5 fixes for your stuck brain
In my previous post I shared what surprised me on our challenge kickoff calls. Twenty people. Smart. Motivated. Stuck. Not because of skills or resources — because of psychology. (Missed it? Read it here.) Today: the fixes I gave them. 1. Identify your saboteurs. What stopped you last time? Netflix? Perfectionism? Shiny object syndrome? Write […]
“I don’t know why I stopped”
This week I ran two onboarding calls for our new 6-week AI challenge. Twenty people. All smart. All motivated. I asked each person: “Why did you join?” I expected answers about skills. About AI. About career goals. Instead, I heard this (exact quotes): – “I took a course a year ago. Haven’t made progress since. […]
But is it a real project?
A reader replied to me last week: “Are side projects even real? Won’t recruiters dismiss them as toy projects? Feels like a Catch-22.” Here’s what you’re missing: There are unlimited companies out there. Yes, Google wants team projects. Amazon wants 5 years of experience. Meta wants a PhD. But Google, Amazon, and Meta are not […]