How do I get a software job when AI can write the code?
Short answer
Show the part AI cannot produce: your reasoning on real work. Keep a dated log of what you decided, what broke, and what you changed your mind about. A founder reads five entries and learns more about how you work than a résumé tells them in a year. Writing is free on Proof and takes about two minutes a day.
How it works
The problem
Everyone's code output now looks the same.
the résumé stopped separating anyone
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What still differs
Why you chose this over that.
AI can write the code; it cannot have had your reasons
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So write that
One honest line a day about real work.
the decision, the thing that broke, the why
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Who reads it
Founders hiring, reading the record directly.
no recruiter filter in between
More finished projects→The reasoning behind one
On Proof today
4,100+
logs written
900+
engineers writing them
Counted live, and excluding one account that flooded the platform with automated rows in July–August 2026. Every public number on Proof excludes it.
What this does not do
Writing a log does not get you hired. It gets you read by someone who would otherwise never have seen you. What happens after that is an ordinary hiring conversation.
Has this actually worked for anyone? One hire, every step, with the denominator — including what it does not prove.
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Published
September 2026
Made by
Radhakrishnan Selvaraj
Candor and Innovation
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