The original title is: "The New Developer Portfolio Is Not a Screenshot. It Is the Work Trace."

Short summary

AI makes it easy to produce polished artifacts that look like real work, so developer portfolios must evolve from screenshots to work traces showing the chain of decisions, failures, and corrections behind a result. The key question shifts from 'was AI used?' to 'where did human responsibility enter the chain?' Platforms like DEV are beginning to support embedding coding-agent sessions, making process-level evidence part of developer publishing.

• •AI-generated artifacts make final outputs insufficient evidence of skill
• •Work traces showing decisions, failures, and corrections are the new portfolio standard
• •Human responsibility in the AI-assisted chain is the real signal of competence

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.