Standing out in the AI era is harder

AI slop that looks ok is everywhere.
In How to evaluate good engineers in the AI era, what used to be good proxies for good engineers is now different.
What used to be good code now matters perhaps less (who needs readable code if it's mostly the machines that read code).
Doing code on the side? Not as impressive as code is cheap now.

Have a good CV? AI makes good CVs for bad candidates too.