A new AI-specific technical role is appearing across job boards at a rate significant enough to call it a trend. This is not a rebadged data scientist or a prompt engineer with a new title. The role is distinct, and the postings are multiplying fast.
This edition of Changelog News covers five things worth your time: Corey Quinn on why younger AWS developers refuse to accept legacy pain points, Thomas Ptacek arguing you should build an agent now, Paul Kinlan extending his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher making a direct case against vibe coding your unit tests. That last one alone is worth the click.
The argument Ptacek makes for writing an agent is not cheerleading. It is a technical position. Read it alongside Gallagher's unit test warning and you get a clearer picture of where AI-assisted development is producing real leverage versus where it is producing slop dressed up as productivity.
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