Develop Yourself

Being the “React guy” or the “Rust guy” used to be a moat. In 2027, it’s not. In this episode I break down the five bets I’m making on what developers should learn and do to stay employable as AI reshapes the job. We cover: Why going deep on one language or framework no longer gives you leverage Becoming the trusted human who cuts through AI hype inside your company Why teaching and explaining tec...

I took over ownership of a coding bootcamp in 2023, just before being laid off as an engineering manager at Clorox. The last few years have been rough. In between working full time and rebuilding after being laid off, I had to restructure Parsity from the ground up. If you're a developer and worried about what AI might do to your own career, perhaps you'll find this useful and if you'r...

Become an AI engineer in 45 days: https://parsity.io/ai-dev Luke Miller, founder of DCNY, joins the Develop Yourself podcast to share how his 40+ person engineering team uses agentic engineering to build and deploy software at remarkable speed and scale for nearly 200 clients. We talk about what agentic engineering actually looks like in practice, how to maintain quality while moving faster, why e...

Dallas Davenport is founder of Aivara, an AI automation marketing agency. We met in a Skool group when I offered to look at her app, and I fully expected a vibe-coded dumpster fire (I've dunked on plenty of those). Instead it was complex, it already had users, and it was pretty freaking good. The app is dealership software that replies to customer messages, pulls live inventory off the lot, an...

Quite simply, I lay out EXACTLY what I'd build if I were trying to set myself up as an AI engineer. The type of project, the concepts and the tools to learn and why. I genuinely believe that in 2-3 years, the people who learn this stuff will have a massive advantage in the market. You can pick up the project here: https://www.parsity.io/ai-eng-side-project

Want to get into the top 10% of your engineering team by leveraging agentic engineering workflows? I'm planning a 2 day workshop here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U I shipped a feature with AI in record time. Then I actually read the code. 60+ files. Weird abstractions. Tests that technically passed but proved almost nothing. Components rebuilt from scratch for no good reason. What loo...

I'm opening 12 spots for a weekend workshop in October for devs who want to ship quality software with agents. Sign up here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U "You're absolutely right, I should have caught that" I'm one of the top 10% of AI users in a 1,000-person engineering org this year. I'm not an AI hater, I ship with these tools daily and I think they're gen...

Become an AI Engineer at parsity.io I recruit for AI roles on the side and I pulled real, live forward-deployed engineer postings and broke down exactly what they're screening for. Turns out it's not what most "learn AI" content tells you. What's actually in these postings: Real applied AI experience: shipped production agents, not tutorial chatbots RAG, retrieval quality, ev...

We teach AI systems engineering at Parsity: parsity.io In this one I get into why senior is mostly a comp band with a name on it, the three things every senior actually needs to know/have, the big fish / small pond strategy I've been running for seven years, and the single move that gets you promoted faster than getting better at your language. Also: why you should stop replaying that intervie...

Become an AI engineer in 45 days. Join Parsity: https://parsity.io Being a "coder" is getting less and less about coding. I've been writing code for 12 years and I'm watching skills I worked hard for get automated. Counter-intuitively, I believe a new brand of software developer is going to be even more valuable and in demand going forward. Your existing skills aren't disappe...

No one is hiring. AI took your job. Junior developers aren't needed anymore. I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing this but there is some truth to it. Things aren't roses and candy canes but they're not all doom and gloom either. Tom graduated from Parsity's coding bootcamp in 2025 and got hired faster than you might expect. There's no secret to his success but there ar...

Ryan Murphy spent five years as an engineering manager at Yelp on the team that owned the infrastructure behind every dollar moving through the company. He got the job the way a lot of people do, which is that his boss had no budget for a real engineering manager and asked if he'd try it. Most of this conversation is about the move from engineer to manager: what the job actually is, what he lo...

Most engineers have read a lot about AI and built almost nothing with it. That is not a character flaw. It is the default. Stanford's AI Index puts numbers on the gap: a tiny fraction of households actually pay for AI tools, while nearly every company claims to be using it. Somebody is lying, and it is not the people quietly getting on with their jobs. This episode is about closing that gap. T...

Want to actually build agents and RAG systems like the ones I mention in this episode? That's exactly what we do inside Parsity's AI engineering program: https://parsity.io/ai-dev I've been coding for nearly 12 years, I own and operate a coding bootcamp, and I've done over 1,000 free phone calls with people trying to break into tech. So this is the harsh advice I'd give you if...

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 Catena...

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...

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 y...

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...

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 h...

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 hire...

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 😅

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...

8 spots left in the AI engineer cohort. Join here: https://parsity.io/ai-develope r Ever get that feeling you're the worst developer on your team? And worse - that it's not in your head, you actually are the weakest link in the room? I've been on both ends. I've been the best developer on the team, and I've been objectively the worst And here's the thing nobody tells you: t...

Free interview prep guide : ⁠https://www.parsity.io/interview-prep⁠ Free career roadmap for developers: ⁠https://www.parsity.io/career-roadmap⁠ Carter Nadain spent four years trying to break into software development. He started with a bootcamp in 2022, got his CS degree, worked at Amazon delivering packages, sent out thousands of applications, and went through every kind of setback you can imagin...

Join the free weekly live session: parsity.io/ai Hope I don't regret this. I'm giving away the exact AI engineering curriculum I teach at Parsity. The same stuff that helped change my own career trajectory and has recruiters sliding all in my DMs. How LLMs actually work (and why knowing this helps you push back on the hype) RAG from scratch — embeddings, vector databases, chunking strategi...