ainika · field notes

Writing.

Notes from building AI products, owning data strategy, and shipping the work we wish someone had written about when we started.

milestone
100,000.
live jobs, hand-checked every morning
19 May 2026 · 6 min read · TopListers

100,000 live jobs, one list. What it took to get here.

TopListers just crossed a hundred thousand active job listings, every one of them hand-checked each morning. Here's what the architecture had to do to get there, what broke along the way, and what comes next.

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career roadmap
14 weekends · free resources
How to become an
AI/ML Product Owner.
May 2026 · 9 min read · career

How to become an AI/ML Product Owner: a weekend-by-weekend plan.

A complete, beginner-friendly roadmap with free YouTube and DeepLearning.AI resources. Built from real experience, structured into actionable weekends. No data science degree required.

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Working on pieces about evals for AI products, what we learned spinning up SplitAI's FX layer, and how to scope an agent feature without setting fire to your roadmap. Subscribe at hello@ainika.xyz if you want first read.