Jared Rand

35 posts

Data Scientist vs ML Engineer vs AI Engineer

What 3,215 Job Postings Reveal About Skills That Define each role Ask five people the difference between a Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and AI Engineer, and you'll get five different answers. I decided to let the data…

April 8, 2026

Daemonic AI

The Next Architectural Layer Beyond Agentic AI OpenClaw and its variants have taken the world by storm. In this article I argue that they represent a new architectural layer beyond what has come to be known as “AI…

February 24, 2026

The AI Lifecycle

A Solution to the Challenges AI Teams Are Facing Across industries, many AI teams are feeling a similar strain: high expectations, compressed timelines, and uncertainty about how to execute well. I have seen this…

January 25, 2026

AI Engineering Needs AI Scientists

AI Engineering was recently named the #1 fastest growing job by LinkedIn, with data science cited as one of the top roles transitioned from. Meanwhile, every data scientist is in the middle of at best an identity crisis…

January 17, 2026

The Intelligence Superhighway

In the 90s everyone talked about the “information superhighway” that was created by the internet and fiber optics. AI has the same potential to become an “intelligence superhighway.” But that potential is unrealized…

December 6, 2025

Mental Models for the Intelligence Age

The world is transitioning from the Information Age to the Intelligence Age. We need a new set of mental models to thrive in this new age. Below are a few of the mental models I've adopted recently to help guide my work…

July 31, 2025