Thinking about learning to code with ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot?

Hit pause for ten minutes.

In this episode, I break down why AI isn’t replacing developers but it is making it harder to learn. 

You’ll learn the right time to start using AI as a beginner, how to avoid outsourcing the struggle that builds real skill, and the “teach-back” method that can boost your learning retention by up to 90%.

Referenced study: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs

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Original article: https://medium.com/@wlockett/you-have-no-idea-how-screwed-openai-actually-is-8358dccfca1c

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Grab the templates for posting to LinkedIn here: https://www.parsity.io/learning-in-public

I’ve grown from 0 to nearly 40K followers on LinkedIn with barely any viral posts, and along the way I learned how the platform really works. 

In this episode, I’m breaking down the exact strategy junior developers are using right now to get recruiters to notice them and get hired faster.

So if you’ve hit “Easy Apply” until your fingers hurt and still don't have any interviews, this is for you! 

I’ll show you the simple LinkedIn system that can get you hired without begging strangers for referrals or posting daily “grindset” nonsense.

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👉 Your adult time audit worksheet 👈

I get it.

There is no time. 

You have kids, maybe adult dependents or a really good show you're binging in between our slow descent into a dystopian reality.

I don't believe in fluff.

Let's cover a practical guide on learning to code as a busy adult and some of the easy (and not so easy) steps you're going to need to take.

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Let's weigh college, bootcamps, and the self-taught route with blunt pros and cons, then map each path to market realities, hiring filters, and long-term growth. 

The goal is to help you choose a route that gets you hired faster without stalling your career later.

• how degrees are used as filters and where they matter
• why top-tier schools win on internships and networks
• the gap between CS theory and practical stacks
• when bootcamps accelerate outcomes and where they fall short
• self-taught pitfalls and how to add structure and accountability
• coastal vs mid-market hiring differences and pay signals
• skills startups test versus what larger firms test
• the minimum effective dose for a hireable portfolio
• why fundamentals compound value in years three to five
• how AI raises the premium on first principles

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I just quit my job as a senior AI developer, and while helping hire my replacement, I realized how few people actually know how AI apps work. 

In this episode, I walk through Retrieval-Augmented Generation step by step—the same system I built at work—and show you the real skills developers need right now.

👉 Grab a hands-on project with a video you can follow along with here 👈

Hold your spot in the January cohort and become the go-to person in your organization for integrating AI into your web applications. Hold spot here

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Just give up?

Everyone says no one’s hiring junior developers anymore — but is that actually true?

In this episode, I sit down with recruiter David Roberts to uncover what’s really happening in the job market, why most applicants are getting filtered out, and what you can do differently to land your first role.

We break down the biggest myths about entry-level tech jobs, how recruiters actually think, and the skills that make you stand out in 2025.

Don't learn to code, learn to build complex software and get hired: https://parsity.io

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Every headline says AI is eating developer jobs. But spend a week in production and you’ll see the opposite: brittle code, flaky tests, and tools that look fast until you actually ship something.

In this episode, I break down why the “AI replaces engineers” story sells so well—to investors, to execs, and to lazy headlines—but falls apart in the real world. We’ll talk through a Cornell + METR study showing seasoned devs got 19% slower using AI (even though they thought they were faster), and why that tracks with what I’ve seen on real teams.

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I thought Ben was a troll when he slid into my DMs after a LinkedIn argument. Turns out, he’s building some of the most practical AI systems I’ve seen. In this episode, we talk about how that disagreement turned into a friendship—and why Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) might be the skill every developer needs in 2026.

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Check out Lobi Software here

Finally - if you want to go deeper with RAG, I have a tutorial I made just for you: https://parsity.io/ai-with-rag

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Ever had your AI pair programmer stop helping and start breaking everything? I did—and this time, the data proves it wasn’t just me.

Claude fell off. 

TypeScript that wouldn’t compile, migrations stuck in loops, refactors that went completely sideways. Turns out Anthropic’s own postmortem revealed three separate bugs causing degraded output—context routing issues, output corruption, and TLA-X blah blah blah error.

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