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Tech bloggers are writing about Claude Code at 2x the rate jobs need them. Employers are hiring for Looker at 10x the rate anyone's writing about it. We measured the gap across 74 skills, 205,895 job postings, and 408,420 blog posts.

The number-one breakout author in the Skillenai blog index in May 2026 is a man named Daniel Mercer who does not exist. He is the centerpiece of an AI-native Private Blog Network (PBN) — 221 fake bylines across 333 cheap cloud-themed domains — built to game a PageRank-style authority signal. This is the SEO content-farm attack of the 2000s, rerun on a labor-market corpus with LLM-generated content.

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.

AI Engineer postings mention fine-tuning more than any other role (26.2% vs 18.2% MLE vs 4.9% DS) — but a deep dive into 6,802 jobs shows the technical fine-tuning toolkit (LoRA, RLHF, distillation, post-training) actually lives in ML Engineer postings.

TL;DR — Edition 4 zeroesin on three tectonic shifts for AI founders: 1. Enterprise Agentics – agent frameworks such as Google’s new ADK, CrewAI and AutoGen are finally hardened for production, and AWS just shipped a…

Welcome to the second edition of Idea Frontier, where we explore paradigmshifting ideas at the nexus of STEM and business. In this issue, we dive into three frontiers: how AI agents are learning to smartly pick their…

The integration of multimodal capabilities into large language models (LLMs) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence, fundamentally altering the trajectory of natural language processing (NLP). By…

Generative AI (GenAI) is set to fundamentally alter the landscape of data science, software development, and startups in 2025. There are 3 overarching themes that drive all these changes. 1. The Final Model multimodal…

My old friend Ryan Casey posed this question recently, and wrote up a nice theory with a proposed solution to the question which he calls Probabilistic Knowledge Synthesis (PKS). The purpose of my post here is to…

The contract between creators and distributors of digital content is broken. The Contract Since the dawn of the Internet, the basic contract between search engines and content creators has been this: 1. Search engines…