The last six months I've been heads-down on agentic frameworks, multi-agent orchestration, and whatever prompt engineering tricks didn't make me roll my eyes. Reading is fine. Toy projects are fine. At some point you have to put the work in front of a real business with real customers and real conse...
The Job Hunt Math Doesn't Work The advice everyone repeats is insane. "Tailor every resume to the specific role." Cool. So for the 40 applications a serious hunt requires, that's 40 sessions of me staring at a JD, hunting keywords, rewriting bullets to match buzzwords I've already lived through twice, praying the ATS gods like my verbs....
## The Moment It Clicked, And Then Immediately Stopped Clicking...
Yesterday I shipped Talent Manager (the career-bot I've been building since the layoff) into actual production. Three daemons running, dashboard up locally, and a deeply stupid configuration bug that ate more time than I want to admit. Building in public means writing the embarrassing parts down too...