Develop Yourself

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To change careers and land your first job as a Software Engineer, you need more than just great software development skills - you need to develop yourself. Welcome to the podcast that helps you develop your skills, your habits, your network and more, all in hopes of becoming a thriving Software Engineer.

  1. hace 1 d

    What Actually Gets Engineers Hired, From a CTO Who Measures It

    Learn to build AI systems that companies actually pay for: RAG, agents, production LLM apps. Not YouTube tutorial toys. Real projects with a dedicated mentor who's shipped this stuff at scale. Spots are capped at 10 per cohort: https://parsity.io/ai-dev Who should software engineers marry? Not another software engineer, apparently. Samir Ranjan is the CTO and Director of Data Science at Catenate, where he built a patented platform that measures soft skills and personality to predict career outcomes. Translation: he has receipts on what actually gets engineers hired, promoted, and passed over. We get into: The 2 traits that separate good engineers from average ones (spoiler: it's not knowing every tool)Why "learning ability" beats technical knowledge in the AI eraThe age group struggling most with AI adoption (it's not who you think)What the data really says about junior devs getting replacedThe new job roles coming by 2027: AI orchestrators and agent managersWhy engineers should learn an art form (seriously)His weirdly practical advice for introverts: dress up and go to TargetWho software engineers should actually marry Samir went from mining engineering a thousand feet underground to building AI career tools. If you're trying to make sense of a chaotic job market, this one's full of stuff you can actually use. Connect with Samir on LinkedIn and check out Catenate. Connect with me: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjenneyYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianjenney

    What Actually Gets Engineers Hired, From a CTO Who Measures It

  2. 6 jul

    How I'd Get to Senior Engineer Fast (If I Started Over)

    Ready to build production AI skills? Check out the Parsity AI Engineering program: https://parsity.io/parsityhome Too many people think getting to senior engineer means grinding LeetCode and memorizing every design pattern known to man. Wrong. I went from bootcamp grad in my thirties to senior engineer to engineering manager, and the thing that got me promoted had almost nothing to do with writing better code. In this episode I break down what senior engineers actually do differently: how they think about problems, why they say no more than they say yes, and the uncomfortable truth that your communication skills matter more than your ability to reverse a linked list. If you've been stuck at mid-level wondering what the secret handshake is, this one's for you. Spoiler: there's no handshake. Just a mindset shift most developers never make. What you'll hear: Why "better coder" is the wrong goal entirelyThe skill that actually separates seniors from everyone elseHow to get senior-level trust before you have the titleWhat I screwed up on my own path (so you don't have to) Connect with me: Parsity AI Engineering: https://parsity.io/ai-devYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@brianjenney

  3. 29 jun

    How to Become an Irreplaceable Front End Developer

    Want to become an AI engineer? Learn the exact skills companies are hiring for at Parsity: parsity.io/ai-dev Everyone's screaming that AI is coming for frontend developers. Mauro Accorinti thinks most of them are missing the point. In this episode I sit down with Mauro, the writer behind Exceptional Frontend, to talk about why "frontend" is way more defensible than the doomers want you to believe. Spoiler: it was never just about centering a div. We get into: Why "irreplaceable" is a skill, not a job title. AI can spit out components all day. It still can't translate messy business problems into something a real human wants to use. That gap is where your value lives. The business-impact thing nobody teaches you. Mauro's whole thing is helping devs connect their technical work to outcomes the company actually cares about. Turns out "I shipped a feature" and "I moved the number that pays everyone's salary" are very different sentences. Is frontend actually dying, or is mediocre frontend dying? (Hint.) How to think about your career when the AI overlord keeps moving the goalposts. Practical stuff, not vibes. If you write code for a living and you've felt that low-grade panic every time a new model drops, this one's for you. Check out Mauro's newsletter: exceptionalfrontend.substack.com

    How to Become an Irreplaceable Front End Developer

  4. 22 jun

    Vibe Coding Hell: A Cautionary Tale

    Build AI systems at Parsity. I joined a fast-paced AI startup in early 2025 where the non-technical CEOs pushed an “AI-first” mandate—“twice as much in half the time with less people” and it turned into vibe-coding chaos. I'm still using AI to write 90% of my code with a very different approach on my new team. If you're feeling the pressure to "move faster" with AI, then this one's for you.

    Vibe Coding Hell: A Cautionary Tale

  5. 15 jun

    Stability is a Myth (And It's Quietly Killing Your Career)

    Build AI systems. Build leverage in your career. Apply for Parsity's AI Engineer Cohort Stability is a myth, and chasing it might be the riskiest thing you do in your whole career. Here's how to use risk on purpose instead. Everyone says find a stable job and hold on tight. That's the worst advice in tech, and I've got the receipts. The "safe" path is a trap. Here's how taking the right risks (job hopping, betting on AI early, volunteering for stuff you can't do yet) actually builds real security.

    Stability is a Myth (And It's Quietly Killing Your Career)

  6. 8 jun

    How a Recent Grad Got Hired in a Brutal Tech Market

    Connect with Salil here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salil-monga/ If you're trying to make the jump into AI engineering, join Parsity: https://parsity.io/ai-dev Salil Monga had a 4.0 GPA, applied to over 1,000 jobs, and landed three interviews. Not one of the jobs he actually got came from those applications. I sat down with Salil, now CTO of Cupe Connect, to dig into how you actually get hired in a difficult market: warm connections over cold applications, fundamentals over chasing the "golden stack," and why he walked into an interview thinking JavaScript was Java and still walked out with the offer. What we get into: - The 1,000-applications, 3-interviews reality, and why the applications were the wrong game to begin with - How every job he landed came from a professor or a peer, not a job board - Getting emotionally wrecked by applications, and the strategic mindset that fixes it - Using AI to actually learn instead of copy-pasting answers, and how he taught students to do the same - Why there's no golden stack, and how he shipped an iOS app having never built one before - Why fundamentals and problem-solving beat the framework of the month - How LeetCode quietly came back as a hiring filter, and how to treat it like one instead of hating it - Treating interviews as a game of chance you can tilt in your favor with rapport - Cube Connect: his no-algorithm, 50-meter-radius iOS app built to get people talking in real life again Salil is one of the more generous guests I've had on. He literally offered to review resumes and talk shop with anyone who reaches out, so go take him up on it.

    How a Recent Grad Got Hired in a Brutal Tech Market

  7. 1 jun

    Just Cheat! (an anti-guide to cheating on interviews with AI)

    A few spots left for Parsity's AI Engineer Cohort. Apply here I told candidates they could use Claude, Cursor, anything they wanted in their AI engineering interview. Half of them still cheated. Badly. I break down what cheating looked like and why you should re-consider it if you're thinking about it... even if you don't have any moral qualms against it 😅

    Just Cheat! (an anti-guide to cheating on interviews with AI)

  8. 25 may

    Software Developer Layoff Survival Guide

    Build AI engineering skills at Parsity. Spots filling fast. It's been a rough week. Meta just laid off 8,000 people, and then the CEO of ClickUp — a company most people have never heard of — went online to brag about cutting 20-something percent of his staff even though they're profitable. No financial pressure. Just vibes. Just "AI made our engineers 100X more capable" so we don't need these people anymore. Then he had the nerve to talk about million-dollar salary bands for the survivors while publicly dunking on the people he just fired. I'm not here to cover the Meta layoffs. There are a hundred channels doing that. I'm here to talk about the people nobody covers: the developer at the 50-person company who gets two weeks and a Slack message. The person who doesn't have a FAANG brand on their resume to fall back on. That's who I was when I got laid off in 2023. In this episode I get into what actually happened when I got canned - the Zoom call with the person you've never seen before, the access revocation, the immediate panic. What I did right after (not much). What I did wrong (a lot). The psychological damage that nobody talks about, and the things I wish somebody had told me before I spent weeks spiraling. This isn't a "5 tips to be layoff-proof" episode. I don't think layoff-proof exists. This is what it actually feels like, what actually helps, and what I'd do differently if it happened again tomorrow. Because it might. Your company doesn't have any loyalty to you, no matter how good things seem right now. If you're going through it, you're not alone.

    Software Developer Layoff Survival Guide
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To change careers and land your first job as a Software Engineer, you need more than just great software development skills - you need to develop yourself. Welcome to the podcast that helps you develop your skills, your habits, your network and more, all in hopes of becoming a thriving Software Engineer.

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  • Creado por
    Brian Jenney
  • Años en activo
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodios
    334
  • Clasificación
    Explícito
  • Derechos de autor
    © Brian Jenney
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Develop Yourself

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