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Vibe coding is amazing when everything works... Aaand absolutely terrifying the moment it doesn’t. 🫠 Want a brutally honest, non‑engineer take on where vibe coding shines, where it blows up and how not to become “that person” asking a senior engineer for help? See what Ivan Šimić has to say about it and save your future self some pain: go.infobip.com/4tgmIVq

Big news for builders and API enthusiasts! Filip Srnec (Principal Engineer at @Infobip) is joining @DevoxxUK to drop a truth bomb - your API might already be a hidden MCP server. Curious? You should be. 😎 Catch him here: devoxx.co.uk

We asked four engineers with 10+ years of experience how they’re staying relevant, and none of them said “learn every new tool.” 😎 Shocking, we know.. Instead, they keep coming back to the "unsexy" stuff - actually understanding problems, going deep on fundamentals, experimenting instead of just consuming content and working on real systems with real people (yes, that part still matters 🙃) : go.infobip.com/4sY7pAq

Ever wondered what your career actually looks like 5–10 years into Microsoft and why no one can give you a straight answer? 🤨 @Microsoft doesn’t publish its engineering ladder, which means if you’re trying to figure out what “career growth” actually looks like there… good luck and enjoy your 3-hour LinkedIn deep dive. Or don’t. Because we already did the digging - career pages, salary data, profiles, the usual detective work. So, if you’re curious what 5–10 years at Microsoft really looks like (beyond vague titles and recruiter promises), read the full guide: go.infobip.com/3QD0Fuc

Ever thinking about Big Tech and wondering what actually happens AFTER you get in? 🤨 Since Amazon doesn’t publicly publish an official breakdown of its career levels, we reviewed multiple sources, from Dev.to deep dives to salary data, to map out how the ladder actually works for developers aiming at the top tiers of Big Tech. We break down the structure, salaries and reveal if the climb is really worth it: go.infobip.com/3Qo45Ru

MCP works. Until you try to scale it. 😅 David Soria Parra, Member of Technical Staff at @AnthropicAI and MCP co‑creator, explained that MCP isn’t failing, naive implementations are. Context bloat, flaky tool selection, missing retries… the protocol defines the interface, but production problems live outside of it. Read more about it here: go.infobip.com/4etrHhv

“I already deliver at a high level. I don’t need AI.” 🙄 ...is what many engineering leaders (quietly) told themselves when AI first showed up. Kristina Valjak, Engineering Lead at @Infobip, walks honestly through all the phases that happened next: denial, frustration, bargaining, overwhelm… and finally acceptance: go.infobip.com/4t0bBQS

Sooo.. do you notice anything different about us? New season, new shade, but same old us. 🥰 And you know what? Coral IS our colour! 🎟️ go.infobip.com/4bxfabm #ShiftZadar2026 #ShiftConference #DeveloperConference #InfobipShift

If AI can write the code, what exactly IS the developer’s job now? 🤔 Iain Bishop, CEO of Damilah and a former CTO, says the gap is already forming. Some teams are moving fast, experimenting, shaping decisions and owning outcomes. Others are still treating AI like a smarter autocomplete - useful, but not transformative. This isn’t JUST about using AI anymore. It’s about orchestrating it - connecting agents, reviewing what they produce and staying responsible for the final result. Read more about it here: go.infobip.com/4vde4ZI

Buying AI tools won’t magically fix how your teams work and that’s the trap many engineering leaders are falling into! 🫨 Chris Parsons, CTO and AI consultant, points out that AI isn’t something teams can just “roll out” like a new IDE. It’s unpredictable, a bit messy and it forces a deeper shift in how engineers think and work together. Without that mindset change, even the best tools won’t deliver much value... Give it a read: go.infobip.com/3PM5LEf

When was the last time a dev conference taught you something you couldn’t Google in five minutes? 🤔 Funny thing is, conferences were never JUST about information. According to Mark Hazell, organiser of @DevoxxUK and co‑founder of @voxxed, the real value comes from real conversations, practical takeaways and learning that happens faster because you’re all stuck in the room together. 😅 So, what DOES make a conference worth it today? Find out here: go.infobip.com/4tnpo3Z

Remember the first time AI showed up at your company and you were like... huh? 🥴 Suddenly everyone’s talking about LLMs, RAG, agents, workflows like it’s basic vocabulary... Not all of us are totally fluent in AI lingo, and that's completely okay. 🫂 There are a lot of terms, and it’s hard to know where to start without feeling overwhelmed. Luckily, Ivo Starešina, Product Marketing Manager at @Infobip put together a practical, easy-to-follow guide, while throwing in some pop culture along the way: go.infobip.com/3NzBk3p

AI doesn’t make attackers smarter, it makes attacks easier! 🥷 Mackenzie Jackson, Developer and Security Advocate at @AikidoSecurity said that AI may not be great at catching bugs, BUT it IS great at understanding context, prioritizing risk and helping teams regain control. Breaches aren’t evolving - people and access are still the weak point. AI just makes it obvious which fires are worth putting out. Learn how AI brings context to security tools instead of replacing them: go.infobip.com/4t4pSf6

"For eight years, I was the only one excited to talk about accessibility - until it became law last year, everyone joined in, and I felt... hollow." 😢 Andrea Mihaljević, Software Engineer at @Infobip, shares what it felt like to advocate for accessibility for almost a decade, only to see it taken seriously once it became law. So in the end, is it more important to care deeply about accessibility or to quietly ship products that work for everyone: go.infobip.com/4lJ0Ek5

How is your CTOs feeling about AI? 🤔 Well, according to Andy Skipper, founder of @CTOCraft, they’re experiencing fear, uncertainty and doubt. And if the technical leaders of companies are feeling that way, what can the rest of us expect? That’s why we sat down with Skipper to talk about how CTOs should manage expectations for AI and how to navigate the hype versus reality: go.infobip.com/3PlWeU0

At Uber, AI agents aren’t just helping engineers write code, they’re getting assigned tasks. At the Pragmatic Summit, @Uber Director of Engineering, Anshu Chadha and Principal Engineer, Ty Smith, shared how engineers are starting to delegate work like code migrations, upgrades, bug fixes and documentation to AI agents. Instead of just generating code, agents can take a prompt and return a ready pull request in minutes through Uber’s internal system, Minions. Engineers review the output, while the agents handle the repetitive work. See how it works in practice: go.infobip.com/4bclAw3

Last week, a Python library called chardet turned into the biggest open source fight online. Its maintainer used AI to rewrite it and switch the license from LGPL to MIT. The original author returned to the internet after 15 years to object. Hundreds of comments later, everyone was talking past each other. The real problem? Clean-room reimplementation (the legal doctrine meant for exactly this) is effectively dead. Thoughts on what actually went wrong by Luka Kladarić (CPTO and co‑founder at rmBug): go.infobip.com/4rYOdmp

[DEV MEETUP OSIJEK] @Infobip and, well, us 😃, invite developers, engineering leads, and tech leaders to a new edition of the developer meetup in Osijek! 📅 Thursday, March 12 ⏰ 18:00 – 21:00 📍 Atelier Bar, Osijek The program features a panel discussion and a talk focused on two relevant topics in modern software engineering: engineering leadership and developing developer skills in the age of AI tools. Panel: What does leading engineering organizations look like when viewed from different levels of responsibility? Panelists: • Izabel Jelenić, CTO @ Infobip • Saša Erak, VP Engineering @ Infobip • Dražen Radanović, Senior Engineering Manager @ Infobip Moderator: Mia Biberović In the second part of the meetup, Marko Macan, Staff Engineer from Split, will talk about how learning and developer growth are changing in the age of AI tools. Sign up here: go.infobip.com/3Ns6MjR

Ever walked into a dev team meeting and realized you’re the only woman in the room? 🙃 For many female engineers, that moment isn’t unusual. Being the only woman on a team can come with a few extras in the job description — subtle stereotypes, unexpected expectations and the feeling that your mistakes (and successes) are a liiiiittle more visible than everyone else’s. Just in time for Women’s Day, Oliwia Mlonek, Software Engineer at @Infobip, shares her own experience of navigating the industry as a lone female developer and what she’s learned along the way: go.infobip.com/4beGpG9

Meetings in 2026 be like: “Let’s add an agent with MCP, RAG and a larger context window.” Everyone: 😁👍 Also everyone: 😥❓ If you’ve ever nodded along in an AI meeting hoping nobody asks follow-ups, don't worry, we got you: go.infobip.com/4725Lpt