My guide for the unemployed SWE in 2026:

- Seek AI jobs (or you may get AI'd into unemployment again)
- Make an agentic side project (isomux did more for me than everything else in my resume)
- Follow the AI discourse on X (the ones hiring have FOMO too and want ppl who know what's up)
- Master agentic development (if you're checking your phone while claude thinks, you're not multi-tasking enough)
- Start posting (more bots -> less trust -> huge bonus for just being legibly human)