The tech industry runs on narratives. The AI revolution. The future of work. What hiring managers want. What skills you need. Most of it is compressed, filtered, and delivered to you as fact. Alt.Script goes underneath.
"The map is not the territory. The story is not the truth. But here's what the fragments actually show."
New pieces land in your inbox. No noise. No algorithm. Just the thing worth reading.
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Alt.Script publishes independent research, analysis and commentary on the tech industry — written from the inside out.
Not the press release version. Not the LinkedIn version. The version you get when you pull on the thread and follow it all the way down.
Occasionally funny. Always honest. Sometimes inconvenient.
35 years in the tech industry. Developer, architect, engineering leader. Over 500 candidates interviewed. Watched the whole thing from the inside.
Left in 2023. Came back curious rather than bitter. Now writes about what it actually looks like from here.
Based in Sydney, Australia.
What's actually happening in tech hiring right now — not what the job descriptions say, but what the people making decisions are actually thinking.
The AI story as it's being lived inside real companies — the mandates, the confusion, the genuine shifts, and the theatre dressed up as transformation.
Small pieces of information that don't make the official narrative. Followed to their conclusion. The things that make you go — wait, I never thought about it that way.