P.01Most hiring managers look at the wrong things on a GitHub profile. Stars and follower counts tell you almost nothing. Here is what to actually look for, and what the AI era changed about reading developer profiles.
P.02AI engineer is not the same job as machine learning engineer. One trains models. The other builds products on top of them. This is the screen that tells them apart and finds candidates who can ship real LLM-powered systems.
P.03The .NET platform has changed more in the last three years than in the decade before. Here is what a strong .NET developer looks like today, what questions reveal real skill, and what separates modern .NET engineers from those still working in a 2015 mindset.
P.04Java 21 LTS brought virtual threads and pattern matching. Spring Boot 3 requires Java 17. Most job descriptions are still testing for Java 8. This guide covers what a strong Java developer looks like in 2026 and what questions reveal real skill.
P.05Everyone claims ML experience since the AI boom. This is the screen that tells apart someone who can build and ship ML systems from someone who fine-tuned a model in a Colab notebook once.
P.06Flutter is the dominant choice for cross-platform mobile in 2026. The candidate pool has grown fast, and the gap between someone who did a tutorial and someone who has shipped production apps is wide. Here is the screen.
P.07PHP powers the majority of the web and the hiring pool is huge. That makes it easy to hire someone who knows PHP and hard to hire someone who can build with it. Here is the screen that finds the difference.
P.08Laravel 12 is a very different framework than the one people picture when they dismiss PHP. This is a practical look at the stack, the tooling, and when an agency or product team should reach for it.
P.09Rails 8 changed the deployment and infrastructure story significantly. A developer who has kept up looks different from one working off 2019 knowledge. Here is what to screen for.
P.10Rust is growing fast in backend, systems, and WASM roles. Finding developers who actually understand ownership versus those who just fight the borrow checker is the whole challenge.
P.11Vue 3 is now the default and the Options API is legacy. This is what a strong Vue developer looks like in 2026, what questions reveal real skill, and what red flags to watch for.
P.12Both formats have real problems, and AI made the take-home problem worse. Here is an honest look at what each format predicts, where each fails, and the hybrid that works better than either.