Panel - Navigating a career: tech, people, and LLMs
summary
Market dynamics shift: freelance demand spikes in 2020 then collapses around end of 2022 with layoffs ongoing, and marketplaces report profits tied to macro cycles; gen‑AI and prompt engineering create new roles even as ML experts remain easiest hires. Engineering manager expectations oscillate between “stay away from code” and “code 70%,” companies keep internal academies to train juniors, and concrete wins appear — one working student saved a week by querying the DB. Practical signals: Rails, Hotwire and Rails, GitHub repos and a portfolio matter.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Career navigation in tech
- 3:16Tech job market post-COVID
- 6:04Job search challenges
- 8:16AI impact on developer roles
- 12:13Investing in juniors
- 16:30Engineering to management
- 22:52Academia to industry
- 25:21Senior growth beyond management
- 34:20Portfolio and self-promotion
- 47:52Closing remarks
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