Ryan Carson on AI Agents, Hiring, and the New Bar for Engineers

Ryan Carson founded Treehouse, the online tech school that helped more than a million people learn to code and switch into tech careers. Now he's building Untangle, AI for family law firms, as a solo founder with a team of AI agents. In this episode of Guidance Counselor 2.0, Ryan joins Taylor Desseyn to talk about what 25 years of building companies says about careers right now: • What changed when he went back to coding with AI after teaching a million people to code • A day in the life of a solo founder running AI agents, and what he hands off • The new bar for engineers: how to show proof of work when agents write most of the code • What juniors and career switchers should learn first, and what's no longer worth the time • The fastest thing someone laid off or with a gap can do this week Whether you're job searching, switching into tech, or figuring out where AI fits in your career, this is a practical conversation for the Torc community.