Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The story we keep telling is a year out of date Almost every piece written about AI hiring since 2024 — including several of our own — has been a demand story. Roles are multiplying. Budgets are climbing. Salaries are re-pricing every quarter. All of that remains true, and all of it is now the less interesting half of the picture. A demand story implies a particular kind of market: lots of buyers competing for a well-understood good, with price doing the rationing. That is not what the 2026 data describes. What it describes is a market where the good itself is in short supply and, more importantly, where buyers cannot reliably identify the good when they see it. Those are different problems with different consequences, and the second one is the one that now determines careers. The…
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