The PromptMates community keeps proving that some of the most useful AI tooling isn’t coming out of big product teams. It’s coming from practitioners who got tired of a specific, everyday problem and decided to fix it themselves. Three recent…
I’ll admit: When I first started hearing people talk about “vibe coding,” I wasn’t convinced it was for me. My thought is, if I can’t read the code, how can I trust what I’m building? I’ve always believed technical fundamentals…
Lessons from a QA professional navigating the job market for the first time in 12 years. When you’ve spent 12 years at the same company, you don’t expect your next challenge to be writing a resume. But that was the…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the gap between seeing what AI can do and actually getting people to use it. Because the demos are everywhere. Someone builds an impressive workflow. The automation works. Everyone gets excited about the possibilities.…
From what I’m seeing in the market, there’s been some QA movement at TQL and CPI Security. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve connected with QA engineers who have either interviewed with these organizations or recently moved on from them.…
Here’s a scenario every recruiter knows: you run a clean, professional interview loop. Everyone feels good about it. And at the end, your managers can’t decide or agree which candidate is the better fit and the decision comes down to….a…
One of the questions I keep hearing from Talent Acquisition leaders is: “Where does AI actually fit into recruiting?” Where is it saving time? Where is it improving workflows? And where does human judgment still matter? So I sat down…
Every week, I hear the same question from job seekers: How do I beat the AI screening my resume? It has become almost as common as asking how to beat the ATS. I had absorbed some of that thinking myself,…
I spoke with a TA manager who built an AI-powered recruiting workflow inside Claude Cowork. Rather than using AI as another chatbot, she designed a system that helps guide recruiters from a rough job description all the way through candidate…
Whenever I talk with engineers about AI in recruiting, I usually get the same question. “So…how are recruiters using AI to source candidates and review resumes?” Fair question. Sourcing and resume review get most of the attention because they’re obvious…
