Red Flags That Hurt Your Chances of Landing an AI-Era Coding Job

Bashiri Smith · Facebook reel · 2026-08-30 · 0:13 · 67,438 views · Open on Facebook

Topics: Resume, Job Search & Interviews, Start Here: Roadmaps & Strategy, Industry Trends & Job Market · Level: beginner

Summary

A 13-second hook video listing warning signs that a developer won't be competitive for coding and AI engineering jobs in the next few years. These include depending on AI to build basic projects, never having read research on arXiv, never building with modern GenAI stacks like RAG, and having a resume full of coursework instead of projects. It doesn't teach any skills itself. Instead, it points viewers to the creator's free AI Engineer Roadmap video and his paid-style Skool coaching community.

Key points

• Be able to build a basic project yourself without AI writing everything for you.
• Get familiar with arXiv.org and read AI research papers.
• Build real projects with modern GenAI tech stacks, such as RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
• Fill your resume with real projects, not coursework.
• Don't assume AI will take every coding job. The developers who win will be the ones who know how to build with AI.
• Have a concrete career plan, not just hope.
• The creator says AI engineering roles pay $100K-$200K+ and points to his free roadmap training as the next step.

Resources mentioned

• The Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Exact Courses + Step-by-Step) · video · youtube.com · free
  Bashiri Smith's free YouTube training on upgrading your skills and becoming competitive for AI engineering roles, with specific courses listed step by step.
  Also in: SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Pointer to Bashiri Smith's Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer Before 2027: A 5-Step Career Plan (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 19 more
• BASWE.Ai Engineer (Skool community) · community · skool.com · paid
  The creator's paid community and program, with an AI learning roadmap (including the full ops and evaluation track), daily calls with engineers and recruiters, resume and portfolio help, and a job-search pipeline.
  Also in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Pointer to Bashiri Smith's Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Evaluate a RAG Pipeline: Retrieval vs. Generation (Interview Answer) (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 76 more
• arXiv · website · arxiv.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A free archive of research preprints, with daily listings of new papers in fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science.
  Also in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Generate Job-Worthy AI Project Ideas from Recent Research Papers + ChatGPT (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), The complete arXiv corpus as a Hugging Face dataset (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Try this

• Comment "CHANGE" on the reel to get the free training by DM, or watch the roadmap video directly.
• Practice building basic projects without AI doing everything for you.
• Visit arXiv.org and start reading AI research papers.
• Build at least one project using a modern GenAI stack, such as RAG.
• Replace the coursework on your resume with real projects.
• Write down a concrete career plan for moving into AI engineering.
• Optionally, join the BASWE.Ai Engineer Skool community for a personalized plan and coaching.
• Build a project using a modern GenAI tech stack, such as a RAG application.