10 articles
A 90-day plan for junior engineers joining teams that ship with Copilot, Cursor, and LLM agents. What to learn week-by-week, what to skip, and how to avoid the trap of becoming a prompt operator.
How to build a developer portfolio in 2026 that doesn't blend into the AI-generated noise — the signals reviewers look for, a three-project structure, and what to cut.
A practical framework for comparing junior engineering offers in 2026: how to read the comp package, what growth signals matter, and which AI tooling questions to ask before you sign.
A measured 2026 look at how bootcamp grads, CS majors, and self-taught developers actually fare in the entry-level hiring market — what's changed, what hasn't, and which path fits which person.
The junior dev market shifted in 2026 — shorter take-homes, AI fluency as baseline, stricter portfolio checks. A measured breakdown of what hiring managers look for and where to focus prep.
The bootcamp ROI calculation has changed in 2026 — AI coding tools, employer skepticism, and a saturated junior market shifted the math. Here's the honest case for and against.
A junior dev's honest comparison of Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Which one teaches better habits, which one is the better long-term investment, and the decision tree for picking.
There are 10,000 dev tools and exactly 7 that matter in your first year. The ones that don't make the list — and why — saves you from the tool-hopping trap most juniors fall into.
I worked through 30+ free programming resources during a career change. These 9 were genuinely good — the rest were marketing or low-effort YouTube content padding.
I worked through 4 LeetCode alternatives over 3 months while job-hunting. Here's which ones translated to passing actual interviews, which were a waste of time, and the prep strategy that worked.
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