A new AI-specific technical role is appearing in job postings at a significant growth rate. This is not a rebranded data science position. The role is distinct, and the numbers are hard to ignore.
This issue of Changelog News covers five concrete arguments worth your time: Corey Quinn on why junior AWS developers are done tolerating bad tooling, Thomas Ptacek making a direct case for building agents now, Paul Kinlan extending his dead framework theory with new depth, and Andrew Gallagher drawing a hard line against using vibe coding for unit tests. Each piece has a specific claim, not just a take.
The Ptacek and Gallagher pieces alone justify reading the full issue. One tells you to build something you probably keep putting off. The other tells you exactly where AI-assisted coding breaks down and why your test suite is where it matters most.
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