Develop Yourself
by Brian Jenney
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He Made $500K a Year as a Developer. Now He Lives in His Car.
He Made $500K a Year as a Developer. Now He Lives in His Car.
About this podcast
To change careers and land your first job as a Software Engineer, you need more than just great software development skills - you need to develop yourself.
Welcome to the podcast that helps you develop your skills, your habits, your network and more, all in hopes of becoming a thriving Software Engineer.
Episodes
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- He Made $500K a Year as a Developer. Now He Lives in His Car. · 20 minEric Elliott wrote the JavaScript articles a lot of us learned from. He spent 30 years as a developer, wrote books, mentored thousands of people and worked as an engineering…
- Why Most Companies Don’t Actually Need AI · 32 minEverybody is trying to cram AI into their business whether it fits or not. Jeff Kuo, founder and CEO of Ragic, has been building software for over 20 years and has some blunt…
- How Software Developers Win in 2027 · 18 minBeing the “React guy” or the “Rust guy” used to be a moat. In 2027, it’s not. In this episode I break down the five bets I’m making on what developers should learn and do to stay…
- AI Destroyed My Business · 20 minI took over ownership of a coding bootcamp in 2023, just before being laid off as an engineering manager at Clorox. The last few years have been rough. In between working full…
- What Happens When Engineers Stop Writing Most of the Code? · 40 minBecome an AI engineer in 45 days: https://parsity.io/ai-dev Luke Miller, founder of DCNY, joins the Develop Yourself podcast to share how his 40+ person engineering team uses…
- She Vibe Coded A Successful Business With Claude · 29 minDallas Davenport is founder of Aivara, an AI automation marketing agency. We met in a Skool group when I offered to look at her app, and I fully expected a vibe-coded dumpster…
- A step by step guide to building an AI-powered side project · 15 minQuite simply, I lay out EXACTLY what I'd build if I were trying to set myself up as an AI engineer. The type of project, the concepts and the tools to learn and why. I genuinely…
- I Let AI Write My Code. Then I Read It... · 12 minWant to get into the top 10% of your engineering team by leveraging agentic engineering workflows? I'm planning a 2 day workshop here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U I…
- The WORST AI Career Path: Meat Proxy · 18 minI'm opening 12 spots for a weekend workshop in October for devs who want to ship quality software with agents. Sign up here: https://form.typeform.com/to/EDuBEz4U "You're…
- What Companies Hiring Forward-Deployed Engineers Actually Want · 18 minBecome an AI Engineer at parsity.io I recruit for AI roles on the side and I pulled real, live forward-deployed engineer postings and broke down exactly what they're screening…
- They Made Me Senior Because I Quit · 28 minWe teach AI systems engineering at Parsity: parsity.io In this one I get into why senior is mostly a comp band with a name on it, the three things every senior actually needs to…
- The 2 Skills That Will Keep You Employed as a Developer · 7 minBecome an AI engineer in 45 days. Join Parsity: https://parsity.io Being a "coder" is getting less and less about coding. I've been writing code for 12 years and I'm watching…
- Teacher to Software Engineer. Do Coding Bootcamps Still Work in 2026? · 44 minNo one is hiring. AI took your job. Junior developers aren't needed anymore. I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing this but there is some truth to it. Things aren't roses and…
- Former Yelp Eng Manager on Management, Mental Health, and the Move Most Devs Get Wrong · 34 minRyan Murphy spent five years as an engineering manager at Yelp on the team that owned the infrastructure behind every dollar moving through the company. He got the job the way a…
- How To Become the AI Person on Your Team · 18 minMost engineers have read a lot about AI and built almost nothing with it. That is not a character flaw. It is the default. Stanford's AI Index puts numbers on the gap: a tiny…
- The Advice I'd Give My Own Kid About Getting Hired in Tech · 18 minWant to actually build agents and RAG systems like the ones I mention in this episode? That's exactly what we do inside Parsity's AI engineering program…
- What Actually Gets Engineers Hired, From a CTO Who Measures It · 36 minLearn to build AI systems that companies actually pay for: RAG, agents, production LLM apps. Not YouTube tutorial toys. Real projects with a dedicated mentor who's shipped this…
- How I'd Get to Senior Engineer Fast (If I Started Over) · 12 minReady to build production AI skills? Check out the Parsity AI Engineering program: https://parsity.io/parsityhome Too many people think getting to senior engineer means grinding…
- How to Become an Irreplaceable Front End Developer · 31 minWant to become an AI engineer? Learn the exact skills companies are hiring for at Parsity: parsity.io/ai-dev Everyone's screaming that AI is coming for frontend developers. Mauro…
- Vibe Coding Hell: A Cautionary Tale · 17 minBuild AI systems at Parsity. I joined a fast-paced AI startup in early 2025 where the non-technical CEOs pushed an “AI-first” mandate—“twice as much in half the time with less…
