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Ethics are being forgotten as the AI race heats up
Is the tech industry capable of the change needed to curb ethical and environmental concerns?
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Do junior devs still have a path to senior roles in an AI age?
LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2025 explores the challenges and opportunities for early-career engineers as AI transforms coding, mentorship, and skill development.
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Turning multi-agent AI into strategic business leverage
Using AI to help bolster business strategy, not just for the sake of it.
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Young devs see steepest job losses in AI-exposed roles, Stanford study finds
More bad news for junior developers.
Editor’s picks

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink
Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.
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The right way to make AI part of your tech strategy
With everyone scrambling to bake AI into their technical strategy, leaders may be resorting to unreliable and unscalable methods.

MCP and the future of AI tools
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how does it simplify data access, enhance AI reliability, and accelerate development?
On our AI playlist

FORTRAN’s AI Playbook: Leadership lessons from history
Learn proven leadership strategies from FORTRAN’s history to successfully adopt AI, upskill teams, and drive lasting transformation at scale

Measuring the impact of AI in engineering
Insights from LeadDev’s inaugural AI Impact Report.

From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play
Everybody wants high reliability, but the path isn’t exactly clear. This talk is for people who need to know what works and what doesn’t.

Rethinking growing engineers in the age of AI
Explore how to grow future senior engineers in an AI-driven world that sidelines traditional junior roles.

Are you ready for AI agents?
AI is changing how apps get accessed – are your systems built to keep up?
More about AI
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How the AI boom is bringing Silicon Valley back from the brink
Is Silicon Valley so over, or is it back?
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How to argue with the AI coding assistant skeptics
AI has everyone on the edge of their seats. But some skeptics’ voices continue to proclaim coding assistants aren’t worth the hype.
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AI models can’t understand code. Does that matter?
New research highlights how little large language models understand about the code they are churning out. Should we care?
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9 women in AI you need to know about
AI is everywhere right now, but there have been brilliant women working behind the scenes for years to make today a reality. Here they are.
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How to develop your skillset for the AI era
How can you make sure that your skillset has got the competitive edge in this new age of AI? Constant personal growth is the key.
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Evan Morikawa on how OpenAI scaled ChatGPT
Ahead of his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October, OpenAI’s Evan Morikawa goes behind the scenes on scaling ChatGPT, the constant need to reset as a leader, and how GPUs don’t grow on trees.