Adapt to the AI Era
For engineers who want to get more valuable as AI makes code cheap.
The role-agnostic adaptation arc: understand the shift, learn to direct and review AI, build the new stack (spec-driven development, evals, reviewing AI code), then present and price the judgment that becomes your moat. A 90-day plan you can actually track.
- Read the capability trend and what it means for your role
- Direct AI as a fast junior — and review its output adversarially
- Build with spec-driven development and design an eval for AI output
- Present AI-era work and negotiate the skills premium
Agent Time-Horizon Explorer
See the trend you’re adapting to — how fast agent capability is growing.
The AI-Era Backend Engineer
The role shift in depth (swap in your own: frontend, data, devops, QA, or EM).
The Agentic Coding Handbook
Work AI-augmented — the agentic coding workflow.
Vibe Coding vs Spec-Driven Development
The build discipline: specify and verify, don’t just vibe.
The Context Engineering Handbook
The core skill — directing what the model sees.
Spot the Bug in AI Code
Practice the new core skill: reviewing AI code adversarially.
Write a Verifier
Design a verifier — the mindset behind evals.
AI-Assisted Interviews
The 2026 interview: working with AI in the room.
The Resume & Portfolio Handbook
Present AI-era work — a portfolio of judgment.
The Salary Negotiation Handbook
Capture the AI-skills premium with a data-anchored ask.
AI Salary Explorer
Calibrate the band before you negotiate.
Every engineering role is being reshaped by AI in the same way: the parts that produce plausible output — code, config, tests, drafts — get cheap, and the judgment to direct, verify, and own that output becomes the moat. This path is the role-agnostic version of that adaptation, built as an ordered, trackable arc rather than a pile of advice.
You start by seeing the trend, then read the role shift in depth (the AI-era handbook for your role), then build the new stack hands-on: agentic coding and spec-driven development for producing work, adversarial review and verifier design for trusting it. You finish on the career side — the 2026 interview, a portfolio of judgment, and negotiating the premium those skills command. Follow it end to end and it doubles as a 90-day plan.