28 posts
Read the people, not the postings: national-lab data scientists build ML like Big Tech, while civil-service agency data scientists do statistics-and-reporting. Two different jobs under one title — and neither ever touches frontier tech.
August 15, 2026
We mapped the AI Engineer role from both sides — Skillenai's talent graph and job postings. Who feeds it, where they go next, and why the skills employers ask for don't match what workers list.
August 11, 2026
AI didn't torch the junior job market. A frozen labor market did — and the housing market, frozen by the same 2022 rate shock with zero AI, is the control group that proves it.
August 5, 2026
US employers ask 2.5x more generalist software engineers than AI engineers to build with LLMs, and the generalists do it in TypeScript and Ruby, without LangGraph. A demand-side look at who really builds AI.
July 22, 2026
A viral Levels.fyi post says the median PM out-earns the median engineer. Across the open job market, that gap is a spam artifact plus a composition effect — match them rung-for-rung and the engineer wins every level.
July 11, 2026
Under identical titles, federal and private tech postings ask for different tools — a federal Data Scientist does statistics and reporting where a private one ships Python and experiments — and several modern data roles barely exist as federal jobs.
July 7, 2026
Federal tech jobs pay ~20% less than private — a gap that should drive workers out but doesn't. Using the new OPM workforce API, the Skillenai job index, and BLS, we price the public-sector bargain: near-zero mobility, near-total job security, and a pension that ties them together.
July 3, 2026
Middle managers' share of layoffs has climbed every year since 2020. We tested the two usual suspects — AI and remote work — against 97,500 US job postings. Both fail. The culprit that fits the timing is a title-inflation bubble we spent a decade blowing up.
June 18, 2026
On June 7 a single post on X coined "loop engineering." We measured it across 870,000 documents three days later — and found why you can't trust a buzzword count.
June 12, 2026
When Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 at 17:00:00 UTC on June 9, six tier-1 outlets published in the same second. The same exact playbook had fired 63 days earlier on the Mythos Preview launch. The June release isn't a discrete event — it's the closing act of a 63-day narrative campaign Anthropic itself opened on April 7.
June 10, 2026
