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"Extensive Experience"

You want 5 years experience with Cursor, when this March, 2026, Cursor will be 3 years old??!? I wish you the best of luck looking for your unicorn candidate that can't exist according to the laws of time... It's that time of the cycle again... That time when hiring managers and recruiters are looking for "extensive multi-year experience" in technologies that are barely 1-3 years old... The technology is moving and evolving so quickly that schools, let alone engineers can't keep up. Executives are so far removed from their industry that all they are looking at is Excel spreadsheets with profiles that have the right numbers. They are completely ignoring details that are critical for the success of their business. Meanwhile, the stock market is the most irrational with its "fire first, ask questions later" mentality, causing more chaos and instability. Here's the reality: If you don't know how to describe what you want, how do I know you wil...

The Problem I have with AI Today

This is a rant post. The problem I have with AI has multiple layers. I'll try to cover them as best I can in this post. However, this may change over time. Premise It started with an email from Lovable. This weekend, they are doing "free credits" for this championship match among the top AI companies out there: OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude/Sonnet) and Google (Gemini). So I login to see what's going on and what can be done. I talk with ChatGPT a bit on the side to help me craft the perfect prompt. Then I feed that into Lovable to see what the result is. My intention is to have it build the scaffolding and beginning of the front-end so I can continue developing the back-end and have the app up in a weekend. This should go like a breeze, right? Wrong... Problems Current AI Limitations Perception Created Results of Perception Let's break down all these points I see and the outcomes they may produce down the line in the hopes I can save at lea...

The Messed up Part About AI Nobody's Talking About

The messed up part about AI that nobody's talking about is how it slows down senior engineers. While it may be great at "Hello world" and simple algorithms, many times, senior engineers are way past this, and don't really need help building boiler plate code because it just doesn't scale. I find myself more often than not, fighting with AI in some cases rather than using it to write stuff for me that I need done quickly. From custom algorithms or complex situations where scale, multiple contexts or hidden details about how computers and coding works that you don't gain from the RactJS tutorials, even design patterns that are gained from learning other languages cannot be captured and implemented by AI just yet (learn how C and C++ works and then tell me you know how to code properly in JavaScript) to its inability to write in Angular vs ReactJS or even use a different language other than Python for a product solution. We all know JavaScript and Python are not...