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Jul 30

Q2 2026 AI Engineering Compensation by Skill

8bitconcepts Research

Research roles pay a $42k premium over generative-AI roles ($274k vs $231k avg), even though generative-AI has 2.5x more openings. Top-paying skill tags, most in-demand tags, sweet-spot skills, salary distribution across 3,402 salary-disclosed roles.

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Oct 17 2025

$5 millionaire for a week: riches to rags in the startup world

Alan Johnson

For a few brief moments, my stock holdings in my former employer were hypothetically worth $5 million. This is the wild story of how I realized less than 1% of that value. I’ll be pretty specific about some of the numbers, because equity compensation is a mystery to most people. Until I went...

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