Hello Reader, “How are you using GenAI in your day-to-day work?” This question shows up in almost every interview now, and almost everyone gives the same answer. “I use GenAI to write code.” “I use it to generate documents.” “I have a bot that automates part of my job.” These are bad answers. Not because they are false, but because they tell the interviewer nothing about you specifically. The prompt is not the differentiator. Anyone can type a prompt into Claude or ChatGPT and get code back....
about 12 hours ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Quick heads up - registration for the free Cohort 10 SA Bootcamp launch workshop is full. Zoom has a hard attendee cap, and once we hit it, no one else gets in. No exceptions. If you registered, your spot is not guaranteed until you're actually in the room. Join at least 10-15 minutes early to make sure you get in before the room locks. 📅 Oct 17th, 12 PM ET (Eastern Time) 👉 You should have the meeting invite in your calendar already. Just in case you deleted it, here is the...
about 14 hours ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, I keep hearing the same concern from people who are considering Solutions Architecture: With AI changing so much of technology, is Solutions Architecture still a good career to pursue? My answer is that AI is definitely changing the role. Let’s go through some of the factors, look at some data, and then come to the conclusion. AI still needs infrastructure When companies build Gen AI applications, they still need compute, storage, networking, security, databases, monitoring,...
2 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
3 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, GPT-6 Astra scored 99.9% on a benchmark nobody prepared it for. Six months ago, the best model scored 7.8% on that same test. Naturally, the internet declared coding dead and Jensen Huang posted that AGI is here. I went and opened the actual results page from the people who ran that benchmark. There is a second number sitting right there, on the same page. 62.7%. Same model, same benchmark tasks, two different evaluation setups. Nobody is quoting that second number. Here is...
6 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Next week I will be on stage at AI Engineer (AIE) NYC. Out of all the AI conferences out there, AIE is one of my favorites. The speakers are engineers who have actually shipped AI systems, so the talks cover real-world implementation with all the messy tradeoffs included. You walk out with patterns you can use on Monday morning. Here are the details: Talk: Build a Self-Improving Portable and Secure Second Brain for Your Agents, with a live demo When: Tuesday, October 13th at...
7 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
8 days ago • 7 min read
Hello Reader, Six months ago, an interviewer asking about Gen AI was a bonus round. Today it is standard. At AWS, Microsoft, Meta, JP Morgan, Verizon, and most large enterprise technology teams, Gen AI questions are showing up in every SA, FDE, and AI engineer interview regardless of the role's primary focus. The candidates who answer these well are not the ones who have read the most blog posts. They are the ones who can connect the concepts to real architecture decisions and explain the...
10 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader, One job title keeps coming up over and over from people trying to break into AI right now. Forward Deployed Engineer. It sounds impressive and vague at the same time, and most people applying for it do not actually know what it requires. I sat down with Nacho, who has spent 7+ years in the AI industry and works closely with both candidates and companies hiring for these roles, to get a straight answer. Here is what actually matters if you want to become one. Forget the job...
13 days ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Are you thinking about becoming an AWS SA, and getting yourself a salary boost - maybe still in 2026? The demand for AWS Solutions Architects has never been higher, cloud computing already crossed $723 billion in 2025 and is projected to top $1 trillion by 2027, accelerated by AI (Source: Gartner). SA Bootcamp is developed to be the most direct and guided route to become a Solutions Architect and get a high paying cloud job fast, without wasting time doing it the hard way like...
15 days ago • 1 min read