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Reports: US losing edge in AI talent pool
About as many top AI researchers are leaving the country as those entering, according to Zeki data.
Career advice in 2025.
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs canāt meaningfully replace many essential roles of software professionals. However, Iām also reading Jennifer Palkhaās Recoding America, which makes an important point: decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.)
As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promiseābut CEOs just canāt resist the technology.
Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed
Chief executive Brian Nicoll vows to āfundamentally changeā strategy in face of worse-than-expected results
AI Will Not Replace Software Engineers (and May, in Fact, Require More)
Gartner Information Technology Research on AI Will Not Replace Software Engineers (and May, in Fact, Require More)
āAn Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Forceā: What Itās Like Working For A Company Thatās Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath
āI have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the seaā
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ā and the jobs are heading to India
: Big Blue āmight as well move its headquartersā to Bengaluru since it āno longer prioritizesā America
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants arenāt just changing how we write software - theyāre fundamentally transforming who we are. Weāre shifting from creators to orchestrators, from builders to overseers. From engineers to something that looks suspiciously likeā¦ managers.