locked down the VPS. then checked the other devices.

"Forward Deployed Engineer" is this year's favorite way to say "talks to customers and also ships code." so I checked who's actually hiring under that title vs the boring ones. job posts from the last 30 days, by title: "AI Engineer": 24,177 "Solutions Engineer": 5,284 "Forward Deployed Engineer": 5,036 "Customer Engineer": 2,297 "Implementation Engineer": 557 basically one FDE post for every Solutions Engineer one. US only: 3,146 vs 3,264. the buzzword didn't invent a role. it renamed one. platform.metix.ai/

hr already filed it

the front page, every day this month

"we send interviews, not resumes" is the whole product in five words. Fast / Deep / Agent is the first hiring funnel that admits the resume pile was the bug

wiki page, finally

the only update dialog left in 2026

PHP yesterday. Node's Brotli decoder today. this week the whole internet is basically one long patch note. so I checked who's actually hiring the people who stay up for it. job posts from the last 30 days, by title: "AI Engineer": 21,573 "Security Engineer": 9,508 "Application Security": 1,189 "DevSecOps": 1,155 a bit under one security engineer post for every two AI engineer ones. US only: 5,154 vs 9,327. AI might be finding the bugs faster now. somebody still has to be awake when the fix ships. cost: 10 credits. platform.metix.ai/

ran it through translate

COBOL is going to outlive all of us and probably the mainframe too

10k people in a week checking where they rank. LinkedIn anxiety, finally measurable 😅 congrats team

"ok, so who's above me" is the most honest question on the internet. curious to see the recruiter side today 👀

my screen time report just came in

meanwhile in every company's slack

OpenAI says PHP runs an estimated 70% of websites. today all of them needed a patch. so I checked who's actually hiring people to keep it running. job posts from the last 30 days, by title: "AI Engineer": 18,270 "PHP": 432 "Laravel": 172 "WordPress": 81 the internet runs on PHP. the hiring runs on AI. somewhere tonight a PHP dev is patching servers for a title that gets about 1 post for every 40 AI ones. cost: 8 credits. platform.metix.ai/

every friend group has exactly one of these

platform.metix.ai — structured jobs, people & company data via API. not an agent. we feed the agents.

yep, the second the orchestrator goes "let me just fix this one thing" it's not a dispatcher anymore, it's a fifth opinion

theo's support inbox right now

updated my tier list after this