Inside one coder's journey to leave tech and land a 'baby blue-collar' job

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Brian Gordon, a civil site designer and former software developer, is pictured.

Brian Gordon

Brian Gordon fell in love with coding. Over a decade later, the industry wasn't loving him back.

What people get wrong about working in tech, according to tech workers

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Priyanka Devi Ramesh (left), Iren Azra Zou (center), and Udit Mehrotra (right)
Priyanka Devi Ramesh (left), Iren Azra Zou (center), and Udit Mehrotra (right) say many common assumptions about working in tech miss the mark.

Priyanka Devi Ramesh (left), Iren Azra Zou (center), and Udit Mehrotra (right)

I'm a 38-year-old software engineer making $200K a year. I grew my salary by moving to the US and plan to retire soon in Mexico.

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Carlos Santana Roldán Salary Journeys treatment

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Carlos Santana Roldán is a 38-year-old software engineer living in California. Business Insider has verified his income and employment history with documentation. The following as-told-to essay has been edited for length and clarity.

I built an AI content tool for creators that hit $50,000 in revenue in 6 weeks. Here's what it takes to vibe code successfully.

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Vitalii Dodonov.

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Claude Code creator says 22-year-old CS grads should found startups: 'It's the golden age'

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Boris Cherny talks at San Francisco's Code with Claude developer conference.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code.

Anthropic

Our survey about vibe coding became a vent session for the AI haters

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Boris Cherny talks at San Francisco's Code with Claude developer conference.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code.

Anthropic

Google plans to let software engineers use AI assistants in job interviews

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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I bought a 54-acre ranch to teach my kids self-reliance. Then I lost millions overnight and learned another lesson.

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A man and woman kneeling with a cow.
Brent Phillips bought a ranch for his family and ended up a short-term rental owner.

Milk & Honey Ranch

OpenAI's president says AI has gone from writing 20% to '80% of your code'

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Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman says that AI is writing most code at companies today.

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Inside the dashboards JPMorgan is using to track and rank engineers' AI use

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has championed the bank's AI push.

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