Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering
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The Reputation Layer: Why Developers Quietly Run Corporate PR
When a database falls over at 3 a.m., most engineers assume they are solving a purely technical problem. They are also, whether they intend to or not,…
The Last Mile of Software Is a Sentence
Every developer knows the quiet satisfaction of a clean merge, a green test suite, and a system that does precisely what it was designed to do. Far fe…
Why autism hasn't disappeared — a hypothesis
In the previous post , I described two survival systems: one oriented toward information, one toward social cohesion. The autistic information drive p…
AI coding assistants are creating mass dependency and we're pretending it's productivity
Using Copilot feels a lot like driving a Tesla. It might be quietly eroding your ability to code without it. A couple of months ago, I realized someth…
The Real Cost of Building AI Agents: A Brutally Honest Breakdown of Time, Money, and Sanity After 100+ Hours
Everyone's building AI agents in 2026. The LinkedIn posts are glowing. The Twitter threads are inspirational. "I built an agent that does X in 30 minu…
The Day I Stopped Thinking Like a Developer and Started Thinking Like an Owner
Early in my career, I thought being a good developer meant writing clean code, closing tickets, fixing bugs, and delivering features on time. And to b…
The Open Source Illusion: Why "Free" AI Models Are Getting Expensive
The Open Source Illusion: Why "Free" AI Models Are Getting Expensive Everyone's watching Chinese open-source models. But the subscription costs are ca…
The Agent Is Easy. The Loop Is the Job. — A Developer's No-BS Guide to AI Engineering in 2026
Every developer I know has had the same experience: you paste something into ChatGPT, it spits out a working component, and you think "holy crap, my j…
You'll not be replaced by AI if ...
There are many reasons why one may not be replaced by AI, not even by a possible future ASI. Here's one reason that may just apply to you! ❤️ You'll n…
من فكرة طلابية إلى نظام مراقبة ذكي – رحلة مستوصف
في قلب كل ابتكار عظيم تكمن قصة إنسانية ملهمة، قصة شغف وتحديات وإصرار لا يلين. هذا هو جوهر رحلة فريق "المستوصف"، الذي بدأ كفكرة مشروع تخرج طموحة وتحول …
I got tired of sending resumes into the void, so I built an AI resume tailoring tool
Applying to jobs is honestly one of the most frustrating parts of career growth. You spend time fixing your resume, submit it to dozens of roles, and …
I Passed Every Coding Interview Then Froze on Day One. Here's Why.
My first day at a real software engineering job. I opened the codebase. Twenty thousand lines of code. Files I had never seen before. Services talking…
How do you stop AI from missing the bias that's actually there?
A child laughs on a playground. Pure. Unbothered. The world owes him nothing yet and he owes it nothing back. Then he grows up. He does everything rig…
DevRelCon NYC 2026: Where Developer Relations, DevX, & Developer Marketing Come Together
TL;DR - DevRelCon NYC returns to Industry City in Brooklyn on July 22–23, 2026. It's the flagship conference for developer relations, DevX, and develo…
The GSoC Arc: How I Almost Didn't Show Up to My Own Story
"This wasn't a success story. It started as survival." Intro Hey, I'm Supreeth C , a third-year engineering student, open source developer, and profes…
Agent Engineering Is No Longer a Research Role. Here's What Changed.
Two years ago, if you searched for "agent developer" job postings, you'd find research positions at labs. The work was exploratory: prompting techniqu…
Stop Reading Interview Tips. Start Practicing With a System.
You've read dozens of "top 10 interview tips" articles. You know the STAR method in theory. And yet, the moment you're in a real interview, your mind …
I got tired of useless news, so I built a Firefox extension for Dev.to
Imagine opening your browser and being flooded with generic ads, clickbait news, or drama you don't care about. As developers, we want to stay updated…
How to turn invisible impact into career growth
A lot of the work that keeps a team moving never fits neatly into a ticket. Sure, you have your assigned tasks, estimates, PRs, and shipped features. …
Data Scientist & AI Engineer — Open to Full-Time Opportunities
Hey Dev.to the community, I'm Ashwin Gururaj — a Data Scientist & AI Engineer based in Melbourne, Australia, currently open to full-time, contract…
AI Is Not Killing Developer Jobs — But It Is Killing Certain Developer Habits
The Headline vs. The Reality "AI is replacing developers." It's everywhere. Breathless predictions about software engineers being the first white-coll…
The Hidden Cost of Context Switching
For a long time, I thought productivity was about effort. Work harder. Focus more. Stay disciplined. Manage time better. Most productivity advice is b…
How to Prepare for a Technical Data Engineer Interview
Data Engineering landscape in Kenya Data engineering has become one of the most important technical roles in modern organizations. Every company wants…
Full Stack Developer Looking for Internship Opportunities
Hey everyone, I’m currently looking for Software Development internship opportunities. Open to: Hybrid internships in Delhi or Noida Remote/online opp…
AI coding assistants are making juniors worse and seniors lazier
Copilot is quietly eroding two different skill sets at once. And almost nobody is talking about it honestly. GitHub Copilot has exceeded 1.5 million p…
Amazon STAR Method 2026: The Complete Cheat Sheet (30+ Questions + Scored Examples)
If you're interviewing at Amazon this year, you've probably read that you need to "prepare STAR stories." What most guides don't tell you is exactly h…
Magnifica Humanitas: what the first AI encyclical says for engineers
In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. At 235 pages, it is …
Tree Traversal: Why the Order You Pick Is a Data Flow Decision
Tree traversal usually gets taught as three separate algorithms to memorize: preorder, inorder, postorder. They are not three algorithms. They are one…
What I’m Learning While Transitioning From Software Engineering to Freelancing
After nearly 3 years of experience as a software engineer, I recently started preparing seriously for freelancing and remote opportunities. Before my …