Real advice for developers navigating careers, job searches, and the age of AI — from people who've been in the room.
The headline from Google I/O was Gemini 3.5 Flash. The real story is what's underneath it.
While everyone was watching the Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks, Google quietly shipped something that changes what it means to build an AI-powered application.
90% of developers use AI at work now. The ones getting the most out of it aren't picking the best tool — they're combining the right ones.
JetBrains just confirmed 90% of developers use AI tools at work. But the real insight isn't adoption — it's that the best developers aren't using one tool. They're running a deliberate stack.
Not a benchmark piece. A 'when would you actually reach for this?' take.
xAI launched Grok Build this week — their first dedicated coding agent. Here's an honest read on where it sits in the stack, what it's actually good at, and when you'd reach for it over Claude Code or Cursor.