Chasing the Signal

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Randy Bradshaw

Are We Misreading the Tea Leaves on Entry-Level Hiring?

There's been a quiet panic building around entry-level hiring. The narrative is simple, seemingly logical, and almost certainly wrong: AI agents can now handle most entry-level work, so why would companies keep hiring fresh graduates? IBM just answered that question — by tripling its entry-level hiring in the U.

AI Isn't Coming for Your Job. It's Coming for Your Task List.

The goal isn't to do more with less. It's to scale the value you already provide. To use these capable, broad tools to deliver more of what actually matters to your client or consumer.

Chasing the Signal: Human Authenticity in an AI-Saturated World

There's a concept I keep coming back to, one I've been chasing for years — literally. I even built a website around it called Chasing the Signal. The idea is simple: the world is full of signal and noise. The signal is whatever carries value — knowledge, connection,

Stop Calling Yourself a Developer. You're a Builder.

There's a shift happening in how software engineers and developers need to think about their work — and the ones who recognize it early are going to have a significant advantage over the ones who don't. It's not about learning a new language or adopting