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How tech pay differs across the UK, Germany and the US. computing.co.uk/feature/2026/f…

The middle loop: A new category of supervisory engineering work is forming between inner-loop coding and outer-loop delivery. Nobody has named it yet. thoughtworks.com/about-us/event…

State of React 2025 2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/

The State of React 2025 survey reports a mix of Single Page Applications (SPA), Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG). Awareness of these rendering patterns and associated skills helps assess the range of employment opportunities within the React ecosystem.

Study finds developers using AI finished initial work faster, and subsequent maintenance by a separate developer was not measurably worse. Open question is whether this scales without building "cognitive debt" across larger codebases and longer timeframes arxiv.org/abs/2507.00788

In these early stages of co-evolution, human workflows and AI agents have not yet adapted to one another. The implication is that having more capable models won't be enough. But in time, this supervisory craft will define new protocols that reduce the collaboration overhead. 3/3

But if you consider coding agents as a form of synthetic labour rather than just productivity tools, a variant of Brooks' Law applies: >Adding synthetic manpower to a late software project makes it later. ... 2/n

In the domain of coding, the likes of Gemini, Claude, and Codex are steadily improving. What is lagging is the co-evolution of practice. Recent research shows that despite anticipated productivity gains the opposite is often experienced. ... 1/n

Stanford researchers suggest 2026 will be less about AI hype and more about accountability. We anticipate a greater demand for AI evaluation, deployment outcome monitoring and human-AI collaboration protocols. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/1…

The 2025 GitHub Octoverse report suggests a structural skills shift: AI-assisted development and a rise in typed languages, with TypeScript overtaking Python. All signals worth watching in the IT job market. github.blog/news-insights/…

JetBrains 2025 Developer Ecosystem Survey. Based on the input of 24,534 developers from 194 countries and regions. devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

PwC's 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer reveals that AI can make people more valuable, not less – even in the most highly automatable jobs. PwC analysed close to a billion job ads to uncover AI's global impact on jobs, skills, wages, and productivity. pwc.com/gx/en/issues/a…

Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report presentation covers trends across R&D, technical performance, ethics, economy, education, policy, diversity and public opinion in AI. youtube.com/watch?v=D03EJh…

InfoQ 2025 Culture and Methods Trends Report - Junior engineers are seen as vital to the industry, with today's juniors quickly adapting to AI tools to refine their questions and accelerate their learning before approaching senior colleagues. infoq.com/articles/cultu… @InfoQ

The State of React Native survey ran from December 2024 to January 2025 and gathered 3501 responses. The survey is not affiliated with Meta or the React Native team. results.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/

FTSG 2025 Tech Trends Report - "Which technologies have the most disruptive potential and momentum to shape the near future?". ftsg.com/trends/

The 2024 Rust Annual Survey shows growing adoption with 92.5% of respondents actively using Rust and 53.4% using it daily, or nearly so. For hiring managers: 22% of organisations plan to hire Rust developers in the coming year. blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/202…

UK government announces AI action plan, committing to expand sovereign compute capacity by at least 20x by 2030, new AI Growth Zones, and targeted measures to boost AI skills, infrastructure and adoption across public and private sectors. gov.uk/government/pub…