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The day before, a journalist from our editorial office visited the opening of the first university robotics laboratory, RoboLab, launched at the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Potentially, such laboratories should later appear in a number of other educational institutions.

Such a polite and active four-legged pet greeted guests at the entrance to the newly opened university laboratory RoboLab, which was solemnly launched today with the participation of the leadership of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and other ministries, partners and sponsors at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUBA). The robo-dog ran and showed various tricks, except for wagging its tail. Simply because it didn’t have one.

Threads user @koteyee shared another crony IT vacancy on Work.ua. Business Research Group, which is presented on the site as a Ukrainian-American company, is looking for a programmer intern with a salary of $1 per hour. Here's what a candidate should be able to do for that kind of money.

Mass layoffs in recent years have changed the market: if previously IT was mostly about hiring, now it’s about performance, role fit, and team effectiveness. We asked HR leaders from Ukrainian and international IT companies what principles they use to make decisions about firing — and whether it’s possible to return after a separation.

The IT market remains competitive, and the number of responses per vacancy is high. In large companies, recruiters review hundreds of CVs every day. And the first decision is often made in a few seconds. dev.ua asked representatives of leading IT employers in Ukraine: which CVs they automatically filter out and which are real red flags.

For the first time since the start of a full-scale war, Ukraine has publicly spoken about exporting its own weapons. But behind the political statements lies a more complex question: is the industry itself ready for this, from UAV and electronic warfare manufacturers to teams developing software solutions for the battlefield? Defence-tech in Ukraine has grown tenfold in two years: startups have scaled into production, software into combat systems, and «garage» solutions have become part of the defense circuit. At the same time, export is not only about state permission, but also about certification, compliance, intellectual property protection, supply chain control, and responsibility for the end user. dev.ua found out to what extent Ukrainian manufacturers of weapons and military IT solutions are really ready to enter foreign markets, what barriers remain key — and what could become a stopping factor even with the presence of political will.

Bohdan Shvets is a front-end and Unity developer with a terrible disease. He can write code, pass tests, and spend years honing his skills, but he can't physically come to the office because he's received hundreds of rejections from employers. We talked to Bohdan about remote work, which only exists in words, the fear of business in front of disabilities, and a system that leaves a person alone with his future.

A post from Tamara Kolyada, Business Software Solution Architect, appeared in Threads, in which she publicly criticized educational development courses promoted on social media and aimed at IT beginners.

Ukrainian language tutor Tetyana Pavlovska published a selection of screenshots on Threads, in which the same man, commenting on photos of girls on social networks, deliberately humiliated them.

Looking at the panic surrounding the halving of the Bitcoin price, one wants to understand what would happen if we played the long game and did not engage in temporary speculation (and whether speculation took place at all).

Economist and professor at American University Kyiv Volodymyr Vakhitov believes that it is time to introduce a «tax on batteries» in Ukraine. His idea has sparked heated discussion on social media. What is the author of the idea guided by and what do the fans think? Read on.

Ukrainian IT professionals are once again arguing about what constitutes «stability» in IT. This time, the reason was a post by QA Team Lead and career consultant Inna Dvoinikova, who, after two years of freelancing, faced an unexpected problem — Ukrainian IT companies are in no hurry to consider her for long-term positions.

It is common to think that soft skills are something that cannot be «measured» in numerical terms, so operating with information about these skills of your employees is based on some abstract ideas or personal assessments. Meanwhile, in the modern technological world, it is soft skills, according to many experts, that will clearly come to the fore — while AI will do a significant part of the routine work. Based on the assessment of not only hard skills, but primarily soft skills, the manager offers successful employees a salary increase or new roles in the company, but it turns out that these decisions are made simply on the basis of a certain subjective vision, right?

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine has actually begun exporting its own weapons and military technologies. We tell you what will be exported, who will sell what, and how much they will earn.

Hello! This is a new episode of the podcast «Sho po Shi». With you, as always, Alexey Minakov, an apologist for artificial intelligence, and Stas Yurasov, CEO of dev.ua. And today we have a very eventful episode.

Here is how the debate around the rebranding of Ukrposhta for UAH 639,000 has not subsided for several days. This especially applies to the logo, which is very similar to the old one, but simply inverted. Experts say that it is inexpensive and good work, others say that such expenses are inappropriate. Let's consider two camps of opinions - "for" and "against".

Web3 recruiting is fundamentally different from classic IT hiring. Most professionals in this environment rarely update LinkedIn, don’t always have a traditional resume, and often don’t identify themselves as «job seekers.» They don’t look for jobs—they create them.

The price of Bitcoin has fallen below $65,000 for the first time since Donald Trump, who has repeatedly stated his support for cryptocurrencies, became the US president for the second time. What is the reason for the drop in BTC?

Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today’s episode features an «impressive» and free job, as well as strange linguistic requirements and Juni-teamleaders.

Starlink terminals used by Russian occupiers have already been blocked, but Ukrainian users need to register their devices for satellite internet to work. What Mikhail Fedorov, Sergey «Flash» and Elon Musk say about this.

In a world torn by wars and economic recession, people are looking for stability and prospects. Against this rather gloomy backdrop, a career in IT often seems like a shining beacon of hope. A dream paradise where it is supposedly enough to just sit at a computer, write code and receive solid money. It is this attractive image that encourages people of all ages and professional experience to retrain en masse. But does the reality match these expectations? As the founder of a programming training center, I see dreams collide with reality every day, and I want to share my perspective on it.

After seven years in IT and a leadership role, Victoria Sinkevich resigned without a clear plan — due to illness and professional burnout. Today, she lives in Spain, develops her own astrology school, and earns more than in the technology industry. We spoke with Victoria about her journey from business assistant to astropsychologist.

Can a hairdresser work remotely? No, because they have to do hair physically (for now).

Last week, news appeared in the media about a large-scale reform of the taxi market planned by the authorities. With the light hand of the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development, a draft law «On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Regulating Passenger Transportation by Taxi or Passenger Cars on Order» was developed. It is reported that at present the draft law is only being submitted for approval to the State Regulatory Service, so there is no talk of its adoption yet — it has not even been registered in parliament. Nevertheless, this does not cancel plans for the future reform, so it caused quite a stir.

Exactly one year ago, Andrey Karpaty first publicly formulated the term «vibecoding» — a method of programming in which the key role is played not by writing code manually, but by interacting with AI. This is an approach where the developer sets the direction, describes the idea in words, adjusts the «mood» of the solution, and a significant part of the code is generated by AI. Over the past year, vibecoding has gone from a half-joking concept to a real practice used by indie developers, startups, and individual teams in large companies. For some, it’s a way to quickly assemble a prototype or pet project, for others, it’s a new level of abstraction in programming, where the engineer is more like an architect and editor than a «person who writes code line by line.»

A full-scale war has become the backdrop against which Ukrainian IT teams have been working for several years. I am writing this text from the perspective of a person who simultaneously works as a QA Manager in an American team and as a Head of QA in a Ukrainian one. This means daily balancing between different cultures, expectations, work paces, and a completely different level of sense of reality. For most of us, this is not a temporary crisis, but a new reality: air raid sirens during rallies, unstable connectivity, and recently, the bitter cold of winter, relocations, losses, and emotional burnout. At the same time, the clients we work with are all abroad and live in a completely different context. At this point, the manager finds himself between two worlds: the team in Ukraine and the global business. And it is how he builds processes, communication, and support that determines not only the result, but also the team’s ability to grow.

In the world of programming, the term “stress tolerance” is often just a cliché on a resume. However, for Oleksandr Viter, Senior Python Developer, this concept has acquired a completely new, physical meaning. Twice in two weeks, Russian “shaheeds” hit Oleksandr’s apartment in Odessa and almost completely destroyed his home. We talked to the IT guy about how to act in such a situation, who to contact and who came to the rescue first.

25-year-old IT developer Alexander Kachkurkin was detained in Russia immediately after being deported from Kazakhstan and arrested on charges of high treason. According to the human rights project «First Department», the grounds for criminal prosecution could be money transfers to Ukraine.

From my observations, generative AI is sliding into the valley of disappointment. The peak of inflated expectations and wild excitement has already passed.

A call to a clinic: the operator cannot immediately make an appointment because the Internet is slow due to shelling, and promises to call back. They say goodbye, and the patient waits for a call. The operator has to record the lead in the CRM, look at the doctor’s schedule, and offer the patient an appointment. But he switches to new requests and forgets about the promise. In conditions of such multitasking and stress, even an attentive employee can make a mistake. For businesses, these are constant risks: lost customers, broken agreements, reputational damage. It’s not just about medicine — similar scenarios are repeated in other businesses. However, often it’s not the fault of the employee, but the result of «manual» processes. dev.ua, together with IPTel, a developer of systems for communications automation, tells what technologies help «insure» businesses against human errors and how it works in practice.