🎭 Behold the ultimate AI job title decoder ring, because clearly deciphering the Rosetta Stone was easier than understanding tech jargon! 📜🎓 Desperate times call for desperate Cheat Sheets as titles morph faster than a Transformer, or worse, they mean everything and nothing all at once. 😵‍💫🔍
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a-guide-to-ai-titles.html #AIjobtitles #TechJargon #DecoderRing #JobMarket #CheatSheet #JobTitles #HackerNews #ngated
Making Sense of AI Job Titles

AI job titles are a confusing mess of mix-and-match terms. This decoder ring breaks down the patterns behind titles.

Drew Breunig
🚀 Wow, China's space heroes took yet another casual stroll in the void to spruce up their fancy #skybox, because who doesn't love some cosmic DIY? 🌌 Meanwhile, back on Earth, we're all eagerly signing up for newsletters and job boards, hoping one day to have a job title as cool as "spacewalker." 🧑‍🚀💼
https://spacenews.com/chinas-shenzhou-20-astronauts-complete-second-spacewalk-to-enhance-tiangong-space-station/ #spacewalkers #cosmicDIY #ChinaSpace #heroesinthevoid #jobtitles #HackerNews #ngated
China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong space station

China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong space station Two Chinese astronauts conducted an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Thursday, marking their second spacewalk in five weeks.

SpaceNews

Follow-up questions:

➡️ Aside from “work on the website” what did that person do? What else was their responsibility?

➡️ If you had to write a description for that title today in 2025, what responsibilities would you include?

#WebDevelopment #WebsiteManagement #Webmaster #JobTitles #AskFedi #WebServices #SysAdmin #AskFediverse

Once upon a time, working on a website granted you the title of "Webmaster". As the Web evolved, more specialized roles took over and the title fell out of favor.

Searching for it now, I don't find many job listings for "Webmaster". So now I'm curious: how far removed from that job title are we?

When was the last time you heard of someone with “webmaster” as their actual job title?

#WebDevelopment #WebsiteManagement #Webmaster #JobTitles #Poll #AskFedi #WebServices #SysAdmin #AskFediverse

Less than 5 years ago
2.1%
5 - 10 years ago
8.5%
10 - 15 years ago
44.7%
15+ years ago
44.7%
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🔥💼 "Burn Your Title" is the new hot take where career advice is sold as #enlightenment, and the author has discovered the groundbreaking notion that job titles aren't handcuffs. 🙄 Meanwhile, everyone else just wishes someone would do their work for them. 🤷‍♂️
https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-04-22-burn-your-title.html #BurnYourTitle #CareerAdvice #JobTitles #WorkplaceHumor #HackerNews #ngated
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Burn your title

The pain in a name — Is information architecture right to call itself architecture?

I have long felt uneasy about modern occupations associating themselves with high-status traditional professions. This has been brought into sharp focus for me since I started a role last year focusing heavily on information architecture, to the annoyance of my wife Alex, who is an actual architect.

https://duncanstephen.net/the-pain-in-a-name-is-information-architecture-right-to-call-itself-architecture/

New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014 https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04918213&r=&r=ict
"… job titles offer a meaningful public source of information to select #poaching targets
… knowledge workers whose job titles were more ambiguous tended to be less likely to be poached by other employers. These results are strongest for mobility to industry incumbents.
… New entrants as well as lateral entrants tend to be less sensitive to job title ambiguity than industry incumbents
#recruiters shy away from knowledge workers with ambiguous job titles
… In contexts characterized by a scarce supply of workers and high degrees of poaching… job title #ambiguity may act as a meaningful way to reduce the poaching of workers from other employers
… firms may decide to strategically leverage ambiguous job titles to increase the odds of #retention of valuable #humanCapital and the knowledge associated with it
… While #jobTitles may serve as a buffer against incumbent firms, they may be less effective against the poaching attempts of entrants or employers active in other industries."
#LaborMarkets #hiring
"A Workplace Glossary"
Who’s who in the software engineering workplace, a cynical layman’s guide for the neophyte engineer.
https://link.medium.com/pth6qt24lPb
#humor #work #jobtitles

Find your dream job by letting go of the title

The job market is rough at the moment. For everyone.

But there is a tendency for people to act as if their own discipline is uniquely badly affected.

Software developers feel like the wave of tech layoffs that kicked off during 2023 have disproportionately punished them.

Designers, having got their seat at the table, found the table walking away from them again.

Product people were sent into full-blown existential crisis after Airbnb announced they were moving away from having product [...]

https://duncanstephen.net/find-your-dream-job-by-letting-go-of-the-title/

Find your dream job by letting go of the title

Every discipline feels hard done by in the current climate. But looking beyond your own discipline could help you get your next role.

Duncan Stephen