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This new AI role is exploding (News)
Nov 10, 2025 · 8 min · 8.5 MB
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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests.
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- 0:00What up, alive nerds?
- 0:43This new AI role is exploding
- 2:06Younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS
- 3:46You should write an agent
- 4:28Sponsor: Depot
- 5:31Dead framework theory
- 6:48Stop vibe coding your unit tests
- 7:51That's the news for now