Why "AI Literacy" Might Be the Most Underrated Skill Right Now

Posted on Sun 04 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, AI-literacy, career, opinion

Why I'm Writing This

A lot of career advice around GenAI right now focuses on learning to build with AI — prompt engineering, RAG, agents, fine-tuning. That's valuable, and it's most of what this blog covers too. But I've started noticing a quieter, less talked-about skill gap that might matter even …


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Is "Vibe Coding" a Real Skill or Just a Meme?

Posted on Wed 16 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, vibe-coding, career, opinion

Why I'm Asking This

"Vibe coding" started as a half-joking term for a very specific feeling: describing what you want in plain English, letting an AI generate the code, and just going with whatever "feels right" without deeply understanding every line. It quickly turned into a meme — the punchline being …


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Is AI Coding Assistant Dependency the New "Copy-Paste from Stack Overflow"?

Posted on Fri 11 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion

Why I'm Asking This

Every developer who came up before 2023 has the same memory: copy a stack trace, paste it into Google, land on a Stack Overflow answer, copy that code back into the project, and move on — sometimes without fully understanding why the fix worked. It was a …


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Will AI Coding Assistants Replace Junior Developers?

Posted on Thu 10 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, coding-assistants, career, opinion

Why I'm Asking This

This question hits close to home for me. I'm a beginner, learning GenAI while also trying to grow as a developer, and I keep seeing the same headline everywhere: AI coding assistants are writing more and more production code, and juniors are the ones supposedly getting …


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Is Prompt Engineering a Dying Skill?

Posted on Sat 29 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, opinion, career

Why I'm Asking This

A year ago, "prompt engineer" was being talked about as a serious job title — some companies even hired for it with six-figure salaries attached. Fast forward to now, and I keep seeing the opposite take everywhere: that prompt engineering is basically over, that models got smart …


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