{"id":208238,"date":"2025-12-28T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:51:11","slug":"4-tech-professionals-who-broke-into-ai-gave-me-the-same-simple-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208238\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tech Professionals Who Broke Into AI Gave Me the Same, Simple Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

When OpenAI released ChatGPT<\/a> in 2022, Mostofa Adib Shakib knew the world was going to change.<\/p>\n

He started his career in traditional software engineering<\/a> at Snap Inc. and then ZipRecruiter, but became convinced he needed to build AI skills.<\/p>\n

Shakib spent time learning about AI from books, videos, and research papers, and he built software projects to gain proficiency with agentic AI<\/a>, such as a tool to help Bangladeshi professionals optimize their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, he started an AI contractor role with Mercor, which, around the time of his interview with Business Insider, earned him a handsome sum of $6,400 a week.<\/p>\n

Shakib decided not to go back to a full-time traditional software engineering job. He said he thought focusing on building AI skills<\/a> before the market gets crowded was the right bet for him.<\/p>\n

While being a full-time employee at a company offers stability and benefits, it would restrict his time, meaning he could only focus on gaining agentic AI skills on weekends, he said. As a full-time AI contractor, he can spread out his hours as he pleases, he added.<\/p>\n

Shakib advised people interested in staying relevant in the tech industry to embrace change, rather than fear it, and to focus on upskilling.<\/p>\n

Read Shakib’s full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, Mostofa Adib Shakib knew the world was going to change. He started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-208238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}