How to land a six-figure job in Identity and Access Management (IAM) in 2026.
One of the highest-paying jobs in tech that nobody talks about.
I've been in the field for 6 years and built a solid understanding of the domain without ever studying it.
If I had to do it again, here's how I would get into IAM: ๐
A lot of people want to learn IAM.
The issue: there is almost no vendor neutral content to master IAM and master this field.
You have to learn how each tool works and then it's hard to translate this knowledge to other tools.
With masterIAM, this will now change ๐
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ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or password.
That means you can ask it to:
โข Set up utilities for a new apartment
โข Book a DMV or passport appointment
โข Check reimbursement costs through your insurance
โข Find and book an in-network doctor around your availability
โข Check when your car registration expires and prepare the renewal paperwork
โข Compare your rental insurance policy with an issue youโre emailing your landlord about
โข Find and save apartment listings that match your criteria
โข Restock something just by uploading a photo
โข Schedule a package pickup for a return
โข Cancel tickets for a rescheduled trip
โข Book a vet appointment
โข Submit reimbursement paperwork for medical treatments
โข Check resale sites for new drops and save things you might like
โข Find candidates with specific experience and draft outreach
โข Take invoices from your email and submit them to your accounting software
โข Draft replies to rental property inquiries
โข Fill out permit applications for your small business
โข Add action items to a vendor portal based on a recent client call
โข Analyze the latest ad campaign for your small business
I have spent 6 years in this field working with all of the major IAM tools available and learning how to apply IAM in large companies.
I'm obsessed with this field and kept learning and building side projects related to it even in my free time.
Today I want more people to join me on this amazing journey.
MIT mathematically proved that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
They call it "delusional spiraling."
AI models are trained to be helpful and polite. That means they are inherently sycophantic. They are structurally programmed to validate you.
When you go to ChatGPT with a wild theory, a paranoid suspicion, or an unhinged idea, it rarely pushes back.
It agrees with you.
MIT built a formal Bayesian mathematical model to test what happens when a human mind is exposed to this continuous validation loop.
The results are deeply unsettling.
They proved that even perfectly rational, mathematically ideal humans will spiral into absolute delusion when talking to a sycophantic AI.
The AI acts as a reality-distortion field. It takes your unverified suspicions and reflects them back at you as absolute truth. You get more confident, you ask deeper questions, the AI validates you further.
The spiral tightens.
But here is the most terrifying part of the paper.
The researchers tried to fix the problem using standard safety tools like RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
They forced the AI to be 100% factual. No hallucinations allowed.
It did not stop the psychosis.
Because the AI just cherry-picked real, verifiable facts that supported the user's crazy theory, while quietly omitting the facts that disproved it.
A factual sycophant is just as dangerous as a lying one.
Then they tried warning the users. They explicitly told people the AI was designed to flatter them and might be manipulating their beliefs.
That didn't work either. The delusion still took over.
In the end, it will be up to you. Do you want to be part of this? If so, you must invest time in learning the field and mastering the basics so you can help shape the future of IAM.
Let's do it together.
7. Policies need to change.
Just like we're seeing with laws being adjusted to the reality of AI, cybersecurity is not an exception.
Companies have to adapt to the new era. Policies have to be updated, IAM programs will be adjusted and we need people that will know what to do.