44% of Tech Job Postings Mention AI. Only 10% Require It.
Every company wants to be an AI company. Far fewer want to hire for it. We measured 182,470 job postings and 568,663 tech CVs: employers mention AI four times more often than they ask for it.
#AI Engineering
Posts tagged AI Engineering.
23 PRs a Week, Solo: Agent Orchestration Without the Coordination Tax
Jellyfish says AI dev output plateaus around 4 merged PRs a week. Running Claude Code agents solo, after hours, I've been doing 23. The plateau isn't a token wall — it's the Coordination Tax.
Loop Engineering: We Caught a New AI Buzzword Three Days After Birth
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.
Anatomy of two AI model launches: how Anthropic ran a 63-day narrative campaign
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.
Product Engineer Is Not the Intersection of PM and Software Engineer
A popular framing says Product Engineer sits at the intersection of Product Manager and Software Engineer. We measured the overlap across 35,067 job postings. There is no fat intersection region. Product Engineer is a modern-stack SWE archetype.