Industry trends

The Pulse #135: Google’s AI developer tools feel like a checkbox exercise

Also: Apple won’t self-regulate, so the US and EU will, Spain blocks part of the internet during football matches, and more

May 29 •

Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools’ future

Impressions from a week in Seattle, at Microsoft’s annual developer conference. Microsoft is eating its own dogfood with Copilot – and it’s not tasty

May 27 •

The Pulse #134: Stack overflow is almost dead

Also: large job cuts at Microsoft, high performers get more bonus at Google while low performers get less, notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code…

May 15 •

Tech hiring: is this an inflection point?

We might be seeing the end of remote interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial weeks and longer trial periods. Could…

Apr 15 •

The Pulse #130: Google releases AI-powered IDE

Also: Git turns 20, a new trend of AI cost saving pressure at developer agencies, John Carmack on how LLMs will impact the industry, and more

Apr 10 •

The Pulse #129: new trend of EMs quitting to be startup founders using AI

Also: Trump tariffs to hit tech, Gemini Pro 2.5 might be the best coding model yet, tips on using LLMs to code, and leaked startup recruitment…

Apr 3 •

The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025

Interview processes are changing in a tech market that’s both cooling AND heating up at the same time. A deepdive with Hello Interview founders, Evan…

Apr 1 •

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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem

A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video…

Mar 11 •

The Pulse #126: Startup asks for a lot, offers little → struggles to hire

Also: Cloufflare’s self-critical, transparent postmortem, additional signs of Big Tech becoming more cutthroat, and more.

Mar 6 •

Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation in the US, UK and India

Deepdive into the distribution of software engineering compensation, based on more than 20,000 data points from Levels.fyi

Mar 4 •

The Pulse #125: swarm of AI coding tool launches

Anthropic, GitHub, and Google launch new AI coding tools for devs, DeepSeek bucks expectations by triggering higher GPU demand, VC funding down with AI…

Feb 27 •

State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets in 2025 – as seen by recruiters

More startups and scaleups are hiring engineers and engineering leaders. Advice for tech professionals on how to get noticed by specialist recruitment…

Feb 18 •

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