My Job Didn’t Exist When I Started Coding
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My Job Didn’t Exist When I Started Coding

Eight years ago, Janine Luk was teaching herself to code at night and at weekends while working in marketing. The job she does now didn’t exist.

Today, plenty of young people hesitate to start, convinced AI will replace software engineers before they get a foot in the door, and most leaders can’t tell them which skills will still matter. Janine, a Senior Software Engineer at Datatonic, has a blunter answer: treat technical skill as the baseline, because everyone applying for your job already has it. The edge is explaining what you built, selling it, and knowing how it makes the business money.

We unpack why junior and mid-level engineers miss that, how golf got her into rooms engineers rarely reach, what male allies actually do that helps, and why she posts and walks away. Press play if you hire engineers, or you are one wondering what’s left.

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