All articles tagged with career
Hit 40k reads, got featured on Dev.to's top 7, then ChatGPT dropped and I ghosted my own career. Spent 12 months asking if technical writing even matters anymore. Spoiler: it does, and here's why I'm back.
Before bootcamps and CS degrees, there was MySpace. Autoplay music, glitter backgrounds, and inline CSS that actually shipped to production. That chaotic era of profile customisation turned a generation of kids into self-taught devs, one `<marquee>` tag at a time. Here's what 17 years in the industry actually looks like.
Goldman's 2026 AI memo isn't about innovation. It's a cost-cutting playbook dressed up as progress. When companies fire engineers to fund LLM subscriptions, they're not creating value. They're just moving payroll budgets to cloud providers while destroying institutional knowledge and compliance infrastructure.
97% adoption. Majority AI-generated code. Junior roles vanishing. This isn't incremental change, it's structural collapse of how we've built software for decades. Here's what actually changed and what it means for your job in 2026.
The Goldman Sachs memo wasn't a one-off. It's the playbook: overhire during boom times, then use AI as cover for mass layoffs. Executives are confusing cost-cutting with innovation, and developers are paying the price. Here's why this strategy is destined to collapse.
Productivity metrics say I'm crushing it. Output is through the roof. But when production breaks, I'm reading my own code like a stranger. The AI productivity paradox isn't about speed, it's about what we lose when creation becomes effortless.
Every 20 years, a new tool promises to replace developers. Delphi, Visual Basic, WordPress, no-code, and now AI. We're still here. Here's why panic is premature, and what actually matters when LLMs can ship faster than your sprint planning.
Five years ago, being a dev meant knowing syntax. Today? AI writes the boilerplate in seconds. The skill that matters now is knowing what to build, how to stitch systems together, and why the elegant solution will bite you in six months. If you're still measuring yourself by lines of code shipped, you're optimising for the wrong metric.
Walked out thinking I wasn't cut out for this. Turns out the interview wasn't testing what I thought it was testing. If you've failed an interview or you're prepping for one, here's what nobody tells you about what interviewers actually care about in 2026.