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Programming with AI tools continues to conquer the world of information technology. It seems that anyone can write code today - you just need to master a tool that allows you to do so. The most common platforms that help those who do not know any programming language to code and significantly speed up the process for skilled IT professionals are Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, and others. And although Ukrainian IT professionals have not yet encountered the use of vibecoding in interviews on a large scale, some companies are already looking for specialists with such skills. And Meta will allow vibecoding in interviews. dev.ua asked six IT professionals and digital specialists working in different fields how they use vibecoding, what AI tools they use for this, and how it helps them in their work. Below are insights on the use of AI in their work from a Magento/Go Developer, UX Designer, Software Engineer, System Support Engineer, Project Manager, and Performance Marketing Manager.

NABU and SAPO exposed the current People’s Deputy, heads of district and city military civil administrations, and National Guard servicemen in bribery when purchasing UAVs and electronic warfare equipment — the scheme consisted of concluding state contracts with supplier companies at knowingly inflated prices.

Every day, more and more channels using artificial intelligence to create content appear on the YouTube platform. At the same time, creators' concerns about YouTube’s policy on AI content are growing. Constant updates to the platform’s policy are causing real panic among authors — social networks are flooded with messages that YouTube is allegedly completely banning all channels that use artificial intelligence. But is everything really so critical? As a YouTube marketing expert at 4Limes, who has been working with the platform since 2011, I decided to take a closer look at the situation. In this article, I’ll explain what has really changed, which channels are truly at risk, and which can safely continue to operate.

In a world where fraudsters are becoming more and more inventive and attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, Raiffeisen Bank has done something that even big players dare not do: it has launched a fully autonomous anti-fraud system that protects the savings of its clients. We spoke with Oleksiy Skyba, Head of Information Security Management at Raiffeisen, to find out how the solution was created, which now stands guard over the money of millions of Ukrainians.

In February 2024, Tencore started as a team of mechanical engineers with the aim of helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Within a month, they had assembled the first 10 TerMIT combat robots, which now help evacuate the wounded, conduct reconnaissance, destroy the enemy, and deliver cargo for more than 20 brigades of the Defense Forces. Today, Tencore is one of the flagships of the market for ground robotic complexes, which consists of 95% Ukrainian components and has attracted a record public investment round in the NRC sector. dev.ua spoke with Tencore co-founder and director Maksym Vasylchenko about the role of NRC on the front, how the company managed to achieve rapid progress, and about interaction with the state.

Frontend Developer Oleh Erokhin shared that he was not paid compensation for November and December 2024 while working for the IT company Miteyda. The IT worker’s attempts to resolve this issue with his former employer, according to him, ended in nothing, and now he is seriously considering the option of going to court. The only nuance is that the company operates in the legal field of Germany, as its head office is located in the city of Aachen.

Documentation in QA is the foundation of effective software testing, and often includes test plans, detailed test case descriptions, bug reports, requirements tracking matrices, and other artifacts. Creating and maintaining it is often time-consuming and error-prone. Fortunately, advances in artificial intelligence can help reimagine documentation processes, reducing the time spent on routine and tedious tasks.§

In 2025, the crypto market has changed dramatically: new technologies, increased regulation, increased security requirements. We at dev.ua have collected the top 5 best crypto exchanges of the year, taking into account convenience, innovation, opportunities for traders, and the level of trust.

Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today we’ll talk about the most demanding candidate who gives orders to the recruiter even before the interview, the driver-designer, the game developer-barista and the strange tests at the end of vacancies that candidates don’t notice.

Telegram allows online casinos to be advertised in Ukrainian TG channels. For this, it uses its sponsored message function. Channel owners have almost no influence on this. As a result, popular TG media have slots and calls to play at the end of the feed.

When you go to Djinni or DOU and see the phrase «Juniors are not needed,» you want to break down the door. Seriously? Are you doing so well that there’s no point in training new specialists? I’m not romanticizing — I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years, managed teams at Ciklum, Luxoft, NetCracker, created a school that teaches practice rather than theory. And here’s an honest and unvarnished explanation of why the role of a junior developer still makes sense, and why the idea of «junior developers being a burden» often hurts businesses more than it helps.

Olga Grabovska is a web designer with a keen marketing sense who turned personal frustration on her birthday into a full-fledged startup. Using her own money and without investors, she created the mobile application Bazhay!. In a conversation with dev.ua, Olga spoke about the wishes and gifts service, which already has its first advertisers and ambitions to enter the global market.

In a conversation with dev.ua, some representatives of the technology market outlined the problem: according to them, Google advertising for the B2B segment, regardless of the budget, has practically ceased to bring benefits and bring targeted leads to the business. Instead, applications are massively filled by bots, which negates the efforts of advertisers from the business and simply «burns» money, but in the meantime allows the tech giant to master large advertising budgets. Is this really so and how categorical are such assessments? In addition to representatives of the tech business, we talked about this with top digital agencies.

Under the guise of foreign volunteers, emissaries of the criminal world are entering Ukraine. Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are sending their people to learn how to fly attack drones, adopting Ukrainian combat experience. According to the investigation, some of them have already returned home from the war and intend to apply the acquired skills on the streets of Latin America.

What does «responsible gaming» mean in practice, what does the player protection system look like in European countries, and what does the Ukrainian market strive for?

Hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber ​​Partisans BY announced a large-scale operation in which they completely destroyed the internal IT infrastructure of the Russian airline Aeroflot. According to the attackers, the penetration of the corporate network lasted almost a year and ended with the complete compromise of control systems, telecommunications and databases.(News supplemented with Sabre commentary)

Oleksii Borovyk, a Magento developer with over 12 years in the e-commerce industry, created the Pickapocket expense tracking app, which allows you to collaboratively manage expenses without complex systems and spreadsheets. Artificial intelligence helped implement the idea, which arose from the need to streamline the expenses of one’s own family budget. The development took 2 months — I worked after work and on weekends.

While salaries in the US are already paid in cryptocurrencies, and some utility bills can be paid in USDC, in Ukraine crypto is still perceived mainly as an investment or niche tool. But the market is changing. In 2025, stablecoins occupy a key place in the crypto ecosystem: according to CoinGecko, they account for more than 10% of the crypto asset market, and the volume of transactions in stablecoins is growing every quarter.

The owner and creative director of the video production company Guys Who Shoot, Yevgeny Astashov, said that he was forced to abandon a project with a Ukrainian company due to its cooperation with Russians. According to him, this happened about a month ago.

AIT residents are usually an inexhaustible source of knowledge that they are eager to share. Some create their own courses, some like teaching in IT schools, and there are those who go on to become teachers, teaching mathematics and computer science to children. School computer science teacher from Dnipropetrovsk region Taras Nikolaev works in parallel with teaching at the largest Ukrainian service company SoftServe. He has been teaching since 2002, currently at Dnipro Lyceum No. 100 «Leader» of the Dnipro City Council. And at the same time he works as a manager of the talent development center at SoftServe with beginners in IT. dev.ua talked with Taras and learned about the motivation for working at school, the difference in approaches to work in public education and IT, as well as the urgency of studying computer science at school, when there are a lot of courses around to enter IT.

In recent weeks, the information space has been shaken by information about a new virus that worries the WHO. Scientists believe that new cases of chikungunya could trigger a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world could face a chikungunya pandemic unless urgent action is taken. The organization has identified the same early signs of the epidemic as during the major outbreak of 2004-2005, and is keen to prevent a repeat. Some 5.6 billion people in 119 countries are now at risk, the WHO said. dev.ua figured out what this virus is, how it spreads, and whether Ukrainians should be worried.

​​Startups and fast-growing companies often face challenges when engaging different vendors for each stage of the hiring process, from recruitment to placement. In such a fragmented model, where different companies handle different functions, coordination becomes difficult, leading to delays and misunderstandings.

HR expert Tetyana Dyagil asked the community about the most common questions asked to candidates during interviews.

Natalia Anon has lived in the USA for over 30 years, and the IT company Svitla Systems, founded by her, has significantly expanded the geography of its representative offices to almost all continents over the past 20 years. Two months ago, Svitla also entered the IT services market in Australia, opening an office there. Despite the wide geography, more than half of Svitla Systems specialists are still representatives of the Ukrainian offices. dev.ua talked to Natalia Anon about what exactly motivated the entry into the Australian market, how preparations are being made for the «entry» into new locations, the realities of the Ukrainian IT industry during the period of a full-scale invasion by the enemy and the company’s performance. And also — why the miltech sphere will be the driver of the Ukrainian technology sector in the coming years. So about all this and not only — below.

The website of one of the most famous hacker platforms XSS.IS, where mostly Russians sat, is no longer working. It has a stub with "greetings" from the SBU and French law enforcement officers. This is due to the arrest of its admin in Kyiv on July 22. This is probably the administrator with the nickname Tokha, who is also the founder of another large hacker forum, exploit.in. Law enforcement officials report a partial shutdown of the XSS.IS infrastructure, while cybercriminals claim that the main server was not affected. Are these actions enough to completely shut down XSS.IS? We asked Ukrainian white hat hacker Mykyta Knysh and Ukrainian hacktivist Sean Townsend about this, and learned some interesting details.

Recruiter Kateryna Kokhanska told about a 30-minute interview with a Senior Fullstack Developer with an expected salary of up to $5,000. In this case, there would be nothing special if the candidate was not in the kitchen, and in the background there were sounds of opening/closing the refrigerator, pots, frying, and rustling of packages. Such a house became a signal for the recruiter. But do IT professionals agree that this situation can be a reason for rejection?

Recently, the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies released a new publication — «Ukrainian Catalog of Fintech Companies 2025.» This is not just a tool for specialists in this field, but also research, a snapshot of our turbulent times, and most importantly, material for analysis and reflection, which I want to share further.

This story — about a radical change in life path — surprises and inspires at the same time. Daria Nedashkovska, Lead Software Testing Engineer at EPAM, before becoming an IT specialist, became the first female saber fencer to represent Ukraine at international competitions, including the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. dev.ua talked to Daria — the girl told why she chose IT and whether her sports past helps her in her current work. Next — Daria’s direct speech.

В Україні два дні проходили протести проти закону № 12414, який підриває незалежність антикорупційних органів НАБУ й САП. Ми запитали у ІТ-фахівців, які взяли участь у протестах, чому вони долучилися, про їхні враження й очікування. 

Over 14 years in mobile, I have built products with a combined audience of over 200 million users. I am currently the co-founder of Kiss My Apps, previously a product manager at Noosphere Ventures and Brainstack. I have experience launching my own offline businesses, and am an LP investor at Hi5.Ventures. I share insights into what really works in mobile products — from monetization paradoxes to team management. Below are the highlights from this experience.