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While some in the industry are debating whether AI will replace programmers, the market is already moving forward. Roles that didn’t exist two years ago are appearing in job openings: AI Solution Engineer, LLM Engineer, AI Security Engineer, MLOps specialist, AI coach for teams, or even someone who manages agent systems.

A year ago, the typical scenario for a graduate of a technical faculty looked pretty bleak: dozens of responses to Junior Software Engineer vacancies, several test tasks, and almost guaranteed silence in response. The candidate, who is being talked about in SKIFTECH, also came to look for a job as an engineer. He had no commercial experience — only a good theoretical base, his own knowledge and a desire to work in defense tech. There was no engineering vacancy for him at the time. Instead, the company offered to start by assembling the equipment. For the first month, he worked as an assembler, studying the product, getting acquainted with electronics and production processes. And only then did he move to an engineering position. SKIFTECH says that this was a conscious path of development within the company. This story well illustrates the changes currently taking place in Ukrainian miltech. While classic IT has been experiencing a crisis of junior vacancies for several years, manufacturers of drones, communication systems and other military equipment are increasingly ready to train people practically from scratch. dev.ua talked to manufacturers of solutions for the military about which positions they are ready to hire people with minimal or no experience at all.

I often review vacancies. Not because I'm looking for a job and not because I'm an IT guy, but because I'm genuinely interested. I work in PR at an IT school, and the labor market is not an abstraction for me: it's something I monitor and try to understand from the inside. Our graduates enter this market every day — and it's important for me to understand what they encounter there.

Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today’s episode features manipulations, work for pennies, and also fraudulent schemes from a pseudo-employer

Prompt engineers, LLM Engineer, AI Ops, AI Safety — new roles are appearing faster than IT professionals can update their LinkedIn and resumes. But at the same time, another concern is growing: what will happen to traditional developers if machines become better at writing code? It seems that the market is starting to divide engineers no longer into junior, middle, and senior, but into those who know how to work with AI — and those who try to compete with it. dev.ua spoke with industry leaders — EPAM, Ciklum, Railsware, PlantIn, Levi9, ZONE3000 and EVO — and almost all of them are convinced that AI does not take away the value of engineering, but is very quickly changing what is currently considered strong engineering. What is actually the value for an IT professional as a specialist when the code is written by artificial intelligence?

Bolt fintech founder Ryan Breslow is at the center of a scandal again. Speaking at the Workforce Innovation Summit, he said that completely laying off the HR team helped the company get rid of «unnecessary problems,» and that most Bolt employees «just weren’t working hard enough.»