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Ukrainian developer Vladislav Tsvetkov, who works as an AI developer and integrator at KTC, has used vibecoding to create a web tool for fans of the game STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The service allows you to conveniently track the progress of collecting trading cards distributed on the ATB network.

Typical situation: AI sorts resumes, screens out candidates, and suggests who to hire. For business, this is, of course, optimization. But for an EU regulator, it affects access to work. And this is already a risk zone. So if the system filters candidates, evaluates them, and influences hiring decisions, then it is already subject to strict requirements.

Ukrainian defense-tech has long ceased to be a narrow niche for military engineers. Today, software developers, embedded specialists, data engineers, QA, product managers, R&D teams, designers, and operations specialists are moving here. The reason is obvious: complex tasks, a fast development cycle, and the feeling that your work affects more than just business metrics. However, with this comes specific hiring. The sector may conduct background checks, require an offline format, give applied tasks, and in some cases, conduct a polygraph test. dev.ua spoke with recruitment specialists from Ukrainian defensetech companies — General Chereshnya, HIMERA, BlueBird Tech, WIY Advanced Aerial Systems, The Fourth Law, Odd Systems, and Frontline Robotics — and explains what to expect from an IT professional who wants to move into the most promising industry today.

The fourth season of the Fresh AIR student hackathon has ended in Odessa. More than 40 teams from 15 cities defended their projects before a jury of leading IT companies. The prize fund this year has almost doubled to 100,000 hryvnias. dev.ua tells about the brightest developments of the participants.

GSC Game World studio, together with the ATB supermarket chain, has launched a campaign dedicated to the game «STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl.» Fans of the game can collect thematic collectible cards and paste them into a special almanac-artbook. Where can you find these artifacts?

If it seems to you that in the last few years everyone has suddenly started speaking some new language, you’re wrong. Strange words keep popping up at rallies, in job postings, and even in regular work chats: LLM, inference, tokens, hallucinations, agents. And the problem isn’t even that they’re complicated. It’s that they’re often used as if everyone already understands everything. We explain what these wonder terms are and how to understand them.

In the last plenary week, the Verkhovna Rada came as close as possible to voting on a bill on VAT taxation of international parcels worth up to 150 euros. At the crucial moment, «something went wrong,» but, nevertheless, the bill itself (or rather, a whole bunch of bills, because the government’s «original» No. 15112 was supplemented by alternative bills from deputies) did not go anywhere. So this decision may well be made during one of the next parliamentary sessions.

The largest European crypto exchange by traffic volume, WhiteBIT, has introduced two new tools that take over the routine of buying and selling cryptocurrencies — Spot Grid Bot and Martingale (DCA) Bot. Their main goal: to help ordinary users work more efficiently in a market where prices constantly and sharply jump, while giving maximum control over their own money.

Creating high-quality 3D animation is an exciting process where boundless creativity meets rigorous technical requirements. Any creative work, especially animation, requires not only a brilliant vision, but also powerful hardware. When you work with complex geometry, multi-layered physics simulations, high-resolution textures, and realistic lighting, weak hardware can kill all enthusiasm due to constant program freezes and endless hours of waiting for rendering.

Viewers of TV series and movies on Netflix and HBO Max have noticed that over the past year, a lot of swear words have appeared in the Ukrainian dubbing, and now Thomas Shelby in the Ukrainian localization of "The Pointy Hats" sends everyone not to their mother's house, but to f*ck. At the same time, in cinemas, the same "Superman" continues to speak with emphasised politeness. We spoke with Maryna Markovych, the operations director of the Postmodern studio, about why you can afford more on streaming than in the box office, how obscene language helps fight piracy, and why "sterile" language prevents Ukrainians from completely abandoning Russian content.

Recently, OpenAI published a rather voluminous visionary document, «Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First,» which is a kind of broad vision of the development of society in the AI ​​era. That is, OpenAI is supposedly already preparing governments for the consequences of the total introduction of AI into all spheres of life — so that later no one can say that «we didn’t warn you.» The company’s position in this context is also quite peculiar, because, on the one hand, it itself, together with its colleagues, is creating these «consequences,» but at the same time it is thinking about what they will lead to.

I work with teams and candidates every day and see how much our professional environment has changed in recent years. Today, it would seem, has already taught us anti-fragility: we adapt faster, go beyond familiar scenarios more easily, think more flexibly and make decisions in conditions of constant uncertainty. We are scaling communication, restructuring approaches to interaction and forming a new culture of partnership dialogues — more open, honest and mature.

Candidates are increasingly using artificial intelligence not only to prepare for interviews, but also during them. This is no longer an isolated incident, but the new norm in the market. However, as the practice of Ukrainian companies shows, most of such «tricks» are quite easy to read. dev.ua has collected real cases — from reading out answers to AI avatars — and explains why this is almost always noticeable.

So the day of judgment has come :)

The conversation about technical debt usually follows the same scenario. The team lead comes to the business and says, “We need a refactoring.” What does he mean? The code crumbles, the product crashes at critical moments, the team suffers. And what do business representatives hear? “We want to spend time and money on something that doesn’t bring profit.” The dialogue ends there — the parties part ways, dissatisfied with each other. How to change this? We need to "sell" refactoring correctly.

It's been more than half a century since humanity last visited the Moon. It turns out that to conquer space in 2026, you need three things: a super-powerful rocket, a working toilet, and an iPhone in the astronaut's pocket. We tell you how 10 days in space went, where the most common phrase was: "Don't move your foot, I'll get something out of it right now."

Forget about the number of lines of code written. Now IT professionals have a new way to compete for the status of the most productive employee: by the number of AI tokens used. Because of this, a new trend has emerged in companies called tokenmaxxing, which has already provoked heated debate.

Yesterday, the Verkhovna Rada took another step towards introducing taxes on income from online platforms, supporting in the first reading the so-called "OLX tax" bill. It applies to services such as Airbnb, Glovo, Uklon, Bolt, Uber and other platforms for providing services, selling goods, renting real estate or transport.

Last year was a turning point for European cybersecurity from quantity to quality. Tet statistics for 2025 show that the total number of DDoS attacks has decreased slightly, but their destructive power and complexity have increased significantly. At the end of the summer, we recorded an attack with a capacity of 600 Gbps — one of the highest figures in the history of our infrastructure. Today, cyberwar is about geopolitics and the use of tomorrow’s technologies today.

In the modern IT world, the issue of professional certification has long become a subject of heated debate and has divided the community into two camps. For some, the coveted «badge» from AWS, Google or Microsoft is an irreplaceable proof of expertise, for others it is just a formality that requires time and money. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle.

Forecasting in SEO is somewhat like forecasting the weather. We have certain data and trends, but no one can give a 100% guarantee that it will be exactly that way. Because when the result is influenced by so many factors (from competitor activity to algorithm updates), trying to predict it becomes a challenge even for experienced specialists. However, there are specific approaches that help you act consciously. In particular, traffic forecasting plays a very important role in SEO. It allows you to see future demand even before you allocate a budget for promotion. However, decisions should not be made intuitively, but based on a well-founded business development model.

In Threads, a mobilized IT guy with the nickname oncceuponatime_dude keeps a diary about how he ended up in the army — from the «gentle busification» and a night in the CCK barracks to the first day in the battalion. He describes in detail what happens to a person in the first days after mobilization: fear, disorientation, absurd situations, and gradual adaptation to a new reality. In his posts, he also shows how his IT skills unexpectedly become necessary in the unit — and what army bureaucracy looks like through the eyes of a person from the digital world. With the author’s permission, dev.ua quotes the specialist’s posts, which may be useful to everyone.

After almost 20 years in HR in IT, where Olena Krapets rose to the level of HR Director, she decided to start all over again. The reason was not a crisis, but a feeling of «ceiling» and loss of drive. Olena deliberately went into a new field, began studying medicine and temporarily lost her income. We talked to Olena about why this step turned out to be logical and what her IT experience really means in a new profession.

A biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: insensitive «organ bags.» In the future, this could turn into bodioids. These are brainless (or nearly brainless) structures that will replace human bodies as they age and wear out.

A few years ago, any appeal to city services followed the same scenario. Visits, queues, piles of papers, certificates from various institutions, lack of a clear route. People spent hours and days, but they perceived it as the norm. Not because it was convenient, but because the system did not work otherwise.

There are currently about 18 million registered freelancers and up to a million customer companies on Upwork. On the one hand, such figures indicate huge opportunities and an unrealistically wide choice, but on the other hand, in this «Babylonian maze», despite the growing demand for quality services, it is increasingly difficult for the customer and the performer to find each other. The problem is the mechanics of lead generation, which has turned into a tiring routine and eats up resources, leaving both parties at a loss. Ukrainian IT professionals, some of whom themselves have significant experience of interacting with Upwork, offer the product Convertix.io, which, in their words, can untie this «Gordian knot.»

What happens to the IT market when AI changes the rules of the game? Why does classic business education no longer work? And most importantly, how can technical specialists not lose their value in a world where a team of 10 people can do the work of a hundred? The answers to these questions were given to dev.ua by Serhiy Bondarenko, CEO of Skywell, a serial IT entrepreneur and investor. Over 18 years in business, he has launched and developed companies, invested in startups, and is now building an educational project for entrepreneurs, Scale Academy. We talked to him about the transformation of the IT market, the new role of AI for developers, the end of the «Jun era,» and why classical business education is no longer keeping up with reality.

Educational program for those who hear «TradFi» in every second podcast about Web3, but still don’t understand where the banks are and why it even matters

Yale University senior Amanda always knew that many of her classmates were using AI chatbots to write essays or do homework. But in small seminars, she started to notice something really strange: her classmates would sit at their laptops with perfectly polished abstracts, but the live discussions after their presentations would simply fail.

Losing interest in work is a common phenomenon that many people face at different stages of life. What used to bring pleasure and inspiration can eventually turn into a monotonous routine, cause fatigue or even internal resistance. However, this is not always a signal for radical changes. Often, it is enough to rethink your goals, reconsider your approach to work and introduce novelty into daily tasks to feel interested and motivated again. In this article, we will look at effective ways to help you regain satisfaction with your career.