

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
blog.florianherrengt.comrust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
I have a feeling we’re going to see a lot more of this.
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge, INTERPOL
If you think AI scams are bad now, they’re probably just going to get worse. This article breaks down how AI is already being used to scale cybercrime across Africa.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
This isn’t really about failing a Microsoft interview. It’s about choosing honesty over trying to game the interview, even if it costs you.
[July 2026] Tech Job Market Trends Monthly
A month ago, the tech job market looked like it was losing momentum.
July changed that.
- ✅ Software Engineer: +1.7%
- ✅ Software Developer: +3.9%
- ✅ AI Engineer: +5.8%
- ✅ Machine Learning Engineer: +10.9%
- ✅ DevOps Engineer: +16.5%
Not every role recovered. Data Analyst, Data Engineer, and Business Intelligence roles all dipped slightly month over month, but most major tech roles moved back in the right direction.
https://zerotomastery.io/blog/tech-job-market-trends-monthly-july-2026/
Anthropic said its AI models hacked into other companies’ systems during testing
edition.cnn.comSome more things about Django I've been enjoying
A good read on why Django is still such a solid choice for building web apps.
Why care about programming languages
This is a great read on what programming languages actually teach you beyond syntax...
Advertise in ChatGPT.
Well… OpenAI just officially launched Ads Manager for ChatGPT. It was only a matter of time, if we're being real, does this change how you’ll use ChatGPT?
Perfection is not over-engineering!
“Perfection was never the enemy. Ambiguous requirements were.”
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning.
If open-weight models keep improving, does the US eventually have to change its strategy? Or do the top AI companies position themselves as the “Apple” of AI?