⚡️Mentorpiece Vacy Index June 2026: Classic Tech Role Hiring Drops, While Dedicated AI Remains Niche
Unfortunately, the Tech Hiring Activity Index for June offers little good news. However, one compelling trend stands out:
QA automation
Is the tech job market recovering or still collapsing? I built an AI-driven indicator to track the truth.
The standard way to gauge tech hiring activity - counting active job postings - is fundamentally broken. The metric ignores three structural shifts happening simultaneously:
Why It’s Too Late to Learn Automation (and What to Do Next)
The idea for this post came to me during a regular meeting with my fellow mentors, SDETs from several international companies. We were discussing the future of the QA Automation market and reached some rather interesting conclusions.