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New edition of Last Week in AI is live. This week’s roundup includes: • Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 ship with agent-native tooling • Postman adds auto-generated SDKs with liblab • Solo.io open-sources agentregistry for managing AI Skills • Helm 4 modernizes Kubernetes packaging with chart signing and WASM plugins • Unreal Engine 5.7 advances real-time simulation and spatial interaction Each update expands what developers can directly manage... from how agents plan and execute tasks, to how APIs are consumed, and how software is packaged and deployed across systems. Read the full edition ↓ #AI #softwareengineering #tooling #agenticAI #devtools #kubernetes #dotnet #postman #hackernews 

AI Engineers didn't exist 5 years ago. Now they're one of the fastest-growing roles in tech. The numbers back it up. Q1 2025 data: 35K job postings explicitly for AI Engineers, with base salaries ranging $170K-$230K. Their job is turning intelligence into production. They keep models running, build retrieval and evaluation systems, and ship APIs that deliver AI to users. It's where research meets reliability. This follows a familiar pattern. Each wave of innovation creates a new kind of builder. Webmasters became App Developers became DevOps Engineers. AI Engineers are the next evolution. Read the full breakdown from the link in first comment. Thank you Vinija Jain and Bassim Eledath for your POVs.

Catch highlights from our latest Customer Advisory Board at the Mandarin Oriental in NYC, where we hosted over 20 tech and talent leaders from some of the world’s biggest brands. 35 floors above Central Park, with incredible views of the Manhattan skyline, we discussed: - What does skills-based hiring and upskilling look like when AI is involved? - How do companies balance measuring computer science fundamentals with AI fluency? - How can HackerRank help you better attract, retain, and upskill the next generation of developers? Thanks to everyone who joined us. These conversations shape how we build for the future of developer hiring and upskilling.

AI is changing how we code, and how we build. Our first AI Coding Challenge brought together participants from 31 countries to build agents that could navigate codebases, parse requirements, and ship working solutions. The winners showed that success isn’t just about speed it’s about precision, strategy, and creativity. Congrats to the winners SHUHAN CAI, Karthik Bhat, Bhavini Goel, and everyone else who participated.

We just partnered with byteXL to bring global hiring standards to Indian engineering campuses. Thousands of students at Tier 2 and Tier 3 colleges now get direct access to the same technical assessment platform used by leading tech companies worldwide. Students can now practice on the same platform that leading tech companies use to assess candidates. They can benchmark their skills against global standards and prepare for technical assessments in environments identical to real hiring processes. The role of a developer is changing with AI. The way companies hire is changing with AI. This partnership helps universities upskill developers to become next-gen developers and prepare for the future job market.

When was the last time you heard candidates praising a technical interview process? A $500B+ publicly-traded company just adopted our next-gen hiring process, and candidates love the experience. Our next-gen hiring process includes evaluating • Fundamentals of software engineering without an AI assistant • A real-world task on a code repo with an AI assistant in a Cursor-like IDE experience • Reviewing code written by an AI agent When you interview developers in contexts that mirror real work, you get stronger signals and a better candidate experience.

Think you’ve got what it takes to build for the AI era? We’re looking for Backend Engineers in Bangalore (2-4 yrs experience) who love writing scalable, high-performance code. Challenge date: Nov 23, 12 - 1 PM IST Register by: Nov 20, 7 PM IST Registration link below.

A $500+ billion company is now using our next-gen style assessments. When was the last time you heard candidates praising a technical interview process? But it's what happens when you design assessments that work with developers, not against them. Here's the shift we're seeing: the most effective hiring processes don't ask candidates to prove themselves in artificial environments. They create opportunities to demonstrate skills in contexts that mirror real work. When you design assessments this way, using tools they'd actually use on the job, you get better signal and better candidate experience. This $500+ billion company understood that. And they're seeing the results in both candidate satisfaction and hiring quality.

New edition of Last Week in AI just dropped. This week: • Cursor adds multi-agent control inside your IDE • GitHub rolls out Agent HQ and Plan Mode • OpenAI ships Aardvark to catch and patch security flaws • Chrome DevTools gets Gemini-powered trace debugging • Claude memory starts rolling out to individual users Developers are spending less time typing and more time deciding how work is structured. Read the full newsletter ⬇️