Hiring Your First Developer: 5 Questions That Filter Out 80%
Hiring your first developer is the most expensive decision a non-technical founder makes blind. Not because the salary is large — because you have no …
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Hiring your first developer is the most expensive decision a non-technical founder makes blind. Not because the salary is large — because you have no …
Originally published on the Talents-OS blog . Disclosure: I work on Talents-OS. TL;DR: A practical preparation plan for technical interviews: intervie…
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The offer is signed, the dates are set, and the countdown to my first official tech role is officially on! 🎓 I am incredibly excited to announce that …
Knowing how to vet a senior Sanity CMS developer is harder than it sounds. The title 'senior' is self-applied on most freelance platforms, and Sanity'…
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The Budget You Approved Isn't the Budget You'll Pay You approved $180K for a senior AI engineer. Eighteen months later, you've spent $282K and you're …
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A few weeks ago I published a piece called "AI Agents Are Great at 80% of Our Code. The Other 20% Is Why We Still Need Seniors." It got 25 reactions a…
Startups hand out senior titles like candy. The industry pays the price. I have been doing interviews for about a year now, and I cannot escape this p…
Your engineering interview loop was designed for a world where the bottleneck was writing code. The best engineers in 2026 are not the fastest coders …
Most companies choose a hiring model the wrong way. They look at the hourly rate. They pick the one that looks cheapest. They start building. Six mont…
A B2B SaaS founder spent four months and $60,000 with an AI developer they found through a popular talent platform. The system was "in production." Cl…
We're building the agentic OS for DevOps — AI agents that make cloud environments self-building, self-healing, and self-optimizing. We're looking for …
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I kept meeting developers who were getting passed over for jobs they were clearly qualified for. Strong GitHub profiles. Real shipped projects. Solid …
Applicant Tracking Systems used to be boring. For most of the 2010s, an ATS was essentially a database with a careers page bolted on top: a place to d…