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The difference between average and excellent is as wide as ever
Six in ten CTOs on the way out. Canva's new hiring filter. Core skills for AI Engineers and Knowledge Workers.
Your interview is testing the old job
Hiring AI roles after redundancies. The need for Product People. Interviewing for the new ways of software engineering.
AI just hit the P&L
Canva found the cost problem. Westpac found 150,000 hours. Atlassian found the payoff.
One person and 3,000 agents
Skill stacking, superpower stacking, agent stacking. How tech teams are being rebuilt this year, plus the founder who stepped away from his own company.
Who's checking the AI?
Trust runs through the whole issue: who checks the AI's output, who owns the strategy, and how far should we trust it. Plus a bank's AI lead on getting it into production.
AI is rewriting the job, and repricing it
Roles aren't vanishing, they're being rebuilt around AI, and the people who can build are getting paid like never before. The AI Jobs Index backing up the trend. From James at NTP Talent.
Australia is the world's biggest Claude user. Almost nobody noticed
Burnout a bigger fear than job loss, Australia tops Anthropic's usage index, and the real ROI story is automation. Live AI Jobs Index numbers inside. From James at NTP Talent.
55% of bosses regret their AI layoffs
IBM rehires, Microsoft puts 6,000 humans on AI implementation, and Lendi makes working with AI a rated skill. Live AI Jobs Index numbers inside. By James MacDonald.
The middle of Australian tech is exposed
Where AI is creating senior seats, where it is cutting the experienced middle, and the layer most exposed right now.