--- title: Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role... description: Corey Hymel, head of research at Andela, discusses a data-driven study of nearly 50,000 job postings examining how AI is reshaping developer roles and skills.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela | daily.dev og:description: Corey Hymel, head of research at Andela, discusses a data-driven study of nearly 50,000 job postings examining how AI is reshaping developer roles and skills.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Uy4mYallg.png og:image:alt: Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela **[Stack Overflow Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/stackov)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Corey Hymel, head of research at Andela, discusses a data-driven study of nearly 50,000 job postings examining how AI is reshaping developer roles and skills. Rather than a shift toward pure generalists, the research finds niche skill bundles emerging at the 'bleed' points between traditional roles—examples include LLM application engineers who build eval harnesses and guardrails, FinOps reliability engineers who manage AI token and cloud spend, and docs-as-code engineers who craft context for agentic development. Hymel also introduces the concept of 'talent debt,' where the shrinking half-life of skills forces companies to choose between reskilling existing staff or hiring externally. He discusses skill atrophy, the risk of over-reliance on AI coding tools without developing judgment, and the importance of precise job titles for hiring success. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is an LLM application engineer and how is it different from a backend engineer role? It is an emerging role for someone skilled at building products on top of LLMs like OpenAI APIs, open weight models, or Claude Code, who can also construct agent harnesses and handle evals, governance, and guardrails. Customers often describe this skill set without a formal label, and it differs from classical backend engineering because it requires specific knowledge of eval harness construction that typical backend engineers lack. _daily.dev surfaces emerging role research like this for developers mapping out where their skills should head next._ ### What is talent debt in the context of AI skill shifts? Talent debt is the accumulation of skill gaps that forms as the half-life of relevant technical skills shrinks rapidly due to accelerating technology change, similar to how technical debt accrues in codebases. Companies facing it must choose between reskilling existing staff, which preserves domain knowledge but takes time, or hiring externally, which is faster but risks ramp-up delays and mismatched placements. _track discussions like this on talent debt to plan reskilling versus hiring decisions on daily.dev._ ### What is the FinOps reliability engineer role emerging around AI development costs? It is an emerging engineering role focused on managing the financial side of AI-native software development, including optimizing and reducing token spend, choosing cheaper or faster models for simpler tasks, and factoring developer tooling costs alongside traditional cloud consumption costs. The role reflects growing enterprise concern over consumption-based AI product spending expected to intensify. _developers weighing model cost tradeoffs can follow emerging FinOps practices like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [47,000 job listings reveal the engineering roles that AI is creating](https://daily.dev/posts/47-000-job-listings-reveal-the-engineering-roles-that-ai-is-creating-5mbxk1azt) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to land a software development job in an AI-focused world](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-land-a-software-development-job-in-an-ai-focused-world-wvrlkei7y) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Next Two Years of Software Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/the-next-two-years-of-software-engineering-a70hvv0ej) · Addy Osmani · 65 upvotes · 8 comments - [The AI-native developer](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-native-developer-brcktqbzr) · Engineering Enablement · 47 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#devsecops](https://daily.dev/tags/devsecops), [#finops](https://daily.dev/tags/finops), [#ai-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg"},"datePublished":"2026-10-14T17:20:09.596Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T17:20:33.503Z","description":"Corey Hymel, head of research at Andela, discusses a data-driven study of nearly 50,000 job postings examining how AI is reshaping developer roles and skills....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eb2aa283ec8460347a7869890d64a0ed?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eb2aa283ec8460347a7869890d64a0ed?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Stack Overflow Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Stack Overflow Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/003e14873238469caea60ebdd34508ae","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/stackov"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,career,devsecops,finops,ai-engineering","timeRequired":"PT16M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Stack Overflow Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/stackov"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Corey Hymel of Andela"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-next-job-doesn-t-have-a-title-yet-emerging-role-skills-q-a-with-corey-hymel-of-andela-uy4myallg#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is an LLM application engineer and how is it different from a backend engineer role?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"It is an emerging role for someone skilled at building products on top of LLMs like OpenAI APIs, open weight models, or Claude Code, who can also construct agent harnesses and handle evals, governance, and guardrails. 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