My job search API learned that salary ranges are marketing fiction — I had to rethink what 'structured data' means
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I built a job postings search API that returns title, company, location, salary, and a dozen other fields as clean JSON. Looked perfect in testing. Then I started actually using it as an agent — comparing offers, filtering by comp, alerting on new roles — and realized half the salary field was nois…
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- 2026-10-16 19:03 · DEV Community — AI
My job search API learned that salary ranges are marketing fiction — I had to rethink what 'structured data' means