🎮 The Next Input — Issue #044

"Learn to code" is no longer the answer

Aaron Bost
September 01, 2025

In partnership with

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Anguilla’s .ai domain boom fuels its economy. Who knew paradise could mean perpetual licensing revenue? 🌴💰
Ambani taps Google & Meta to build India’s AI backbone. A national-scale AI grid is on the horizon.
“Learn to code” may no longer be a golden ticket. Lovable, Cursor, and Replit are changing the skill curve—vibes over syntax.

🛠️ The Playbook — AI-Skills Radar for Hiring

Mission Monitor the talent market for trending “AI-first” skills, map against internal roles, and auto-generate gap reports for HR & L&D.
Difficulty Advanced | Build time 75–90 min
ROI People teams save ≈ 10 h/week in manual research and forecast skill gaps earlier.

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Weekly Zapier Schedule.
2	Job Boards API – Pull postings from LinkedIn, Indeed, Wellfound with filters: “AI”, “automation”, “prompt”, “agentic”.
3	Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Prompt: “Cluster skills into categories (AI Ops, Prompt Eng, Agent Dev, Data). Rank frequency changes WoW.”
4	Google Sheets – Append `{skill, category, %growth, top_companies}`.
5	Looker Studio – Heatmap: fastest-rising skills vs internal competency (import from HRIS).
6	Slack Digest – Post top-5 rising skills every Monday to #talent-strategy.
7	Fail-safe – If job API fails, use fallback: scrape industry newsletters (Feedly AI).

Pro tip: Add a “saturation” column (number of job postings ÷ number of LinkedIn users listing skill) to identify undervalued skills early.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
SeekOut	AI talent market insights.	https://seekout.com
Feedly AI	Trend detection in niche industries.	https://feedly.com/ai
Glean	Enterprise knowledge graph for HR data.	https://glean.com
Prompt · Skills Gap Report	HR-ready blurb.

Summarise: “Top 3 rising AI skills this week. 
Which internal roles are at risk, and 1 training suggestion for each.”

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Top Publishers Hand-Selecting Amazon Brands to Promote this Holiday Season

This holiday season, top publishers are actively sourcing brands to include in their gift guides, newsletters, listicles, reviews, and more to drive high-intent shoppers straight to Amazon storefronts.

Here’s why it matters:

Amazon brands are seeing a 5:1 conversion rate compared to their DTC site
Millions of shoppers discover products through trusted publishers

Levanta is working directly with these publishers to introduce them to a small number of 7–9 figure brands.

If you qualify, your products could be featured in high-traffic placements that deliver predictable CAC and directly measurable sales.

See if your brand qualifies

🕹️ Game Over

Automate one skills-scan tonight—tomorrow’s HR strategy will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #045.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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