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While some experts are debating whether artificial intelligence is the next bubble, real AI miracles are happening in the world.

Understanding that you can develop large-scale projects and implement the most ambitious ideas is the main trigger that fuels interest in the startup sector. Many are attracted to an industry in which you can create something fundamentally new from scratch and, moreover, something that brings in big money.

This week, the IT community celebrated International Programmer’s Day. Ukrainian specialists chose January 7 as their professional holiday so as not to celebrate it together with the Russians. On the occasion of the holiday, dev.ua asked IT professionals what the most unusual requests or assignments they received from their environment, «because you are a programmer.» Here is a selection of the funniest and most non-trivial answers.

«I left IT almost a year ago. There’s no going back. I just put an end to it, because it’s not mine,» says Olga Popova, a graduate of Kyiv Linguistic University, who entered IT right after university, but didn’t stay in the most promising industry for long. To understand that IT is not the area where she would like to develop, the former IT recruiter needed experience working in three companies. dev.ua Olga told why she left the area that many Ukrainians dream of entering, what’s wrong with IT from the inside, and what she does now. Next is the heroine’s direct speech.

Greenland is the largest island in the world with almost untouched land and scarce resources, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. Located above the Arctic Circle between the United States, Russia and Europe, the island is a geopolitical prize that the United States and other countries have been hunting for for over 150 years. During his first term as president, Donald Trump expressed interest in purchasing Greenland. Now, after winning the election, the island could become his gift to American Big Tech and crypto miners.

HR Business Partner Victoria Zakharova shared with the IT community a trigger that has a significant negative impact on recruiters' performance of their duties and reduces their desire to respond to all candidates' resumes.

Despite its rapid growth in popularity, many developers have not heard of this tool or do not know enough about it to confidently use it in their daily work. Although the ViteConf 2024 conference announced that the number of Vite downloads exceeded 15 million per week, which is twice as much as the previous year. It seems that this tool will soon catch up with the more well-known Webpack among developers and can significantly affect development in the web industry. So let’s now understand what Vite is and how it can be useful in the frontend.

Every month we share stories of small and medium-sized technology businesses and projects that bring our victory over Russia closer.

CES is an annual tech show where you can see the coolest, most cutting-edge, and most innovative technologies, including some pretty weird ones. CES 2025 is no exception: this year, too, you can see some weird devices that may never go on sale.

Yulia Kleban, a marketing, brand and communications specialist at Projector Institute, spoke about her experience of consciously chosen unemployment for 7 months. The girl shared the insights she gathered during this period.

We are used to perceiving billionaire Elon Musk in two guises: a genius who moves this world forward and an eccentric media figure who forbids and allows something on the social network X (formerly Twitter). After the entrepreneur brought Donald Trump to power, he received his third role — political. The word «role» is very important in the story about Musk, so we will return to it later. Until the inauguration of the newly elected US president, which will take place on January 20, Elon lives in Trump’s residence, participates with him in important negotiations and will soon be engaged in cutting US government spending.

Yulia Tkachenko is a student of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, studying economics, but has been fascinated by technology and science for several years. The girl is a resident of Ukrainian Future, a business incubator of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and has won many national and international scientific competitions in physics. Yulia developed an application for sports and rehabilitation OUTEX, in which AI independently corrects the execution of exercises. Yulia told dev.ua about how the application works, how the girl created a startup, and whether she plans to become a unicorn.

I am Dr. Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer, founder of the Mars Society, author of The Case for Mars, The Case for Space, The New World on Mars, and a big supporter of Ukraine. I will tell you how Ukraine and beyond can overcome the energy crisis. Here are some tips and guidelines.

19-year-old Danylo Lysitsa is studying «Computer Engineering» in the 4th year of Vinnytsia Vocational College of the National Technical University of Ukraine. And in parallel with his studies, the young man organizes and conducts charity tournaments in the most popular e-sports disciplines Dota2 and CS2. Danylo told dev.ua what brought him to e-sports, what he has already managed to achieve and whether he will compete with the Ukrainian e-sports organization Natus Vincere.

Vadim Dobrovolsky, born in Skvir, Kyiv region, is 16 years old, he still studies at the local academic lyceum No. 2, but for 10 years he has been nurturing an idea of ​​how to accelerate Ukraine’s victory in the war against Russian attackers. To help his father-defender, Vadim, within the framework of Ukrainian Future, a business incubator of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, created a startup PhAInix, which protects Ukrainian drones from enemy electronic warfare. With the development, the guy became a finalist in the national competition of innovative business projects National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge 2024 (NYEC). He told dev.ua how the development, which has already received recognition on the international market, works.

Earlier this year, cybersecurity researchers discovered dozens of attacks involving malicious updates to Google Chrome’s VPN and AI extensions. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself from hacking and data theft.

In 2024, 1,122 graduates of Mate academy, an online IT academy, took their first step in their careers by starting to work in junior positions. Here are the key figures and insights to show how their story before the offer unfolded compared to last year .

The terrifying truth was revealed to us by Cloudflare, a California-based company that helps deliver and protect content around the world, in a recent 2024 report on the latest trends in the Internet.

Talent Acquisition Specialist Oksana Hnatiuk told a story about a candidate who turned out to be sexist.

На техновиставці CES 2025 у Лас-Вегасі компанія Nvidia анонсувала низку новинок: платформа ШІ Cosmos WFM, графічний процесор RTX 5090, менеджер з керування парком роботів Mega, суперкомп’ютер зі штучним інтелектом та інше.

What will artificial intelligence surprise you in the new year? Here are the top 10 trends in generative AI for 2025.

On February 6, 2024, the Diia.City United alliance was presented, which was created by six founding companies: Ajax Systems, Genesis, MacPaw, monobank, Netpeak Group, and Roosh. At the same time, Natalia Mykolska, an expert in strategic transformations and business globalization and former trade representative — Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade (2015-2019), was announced as the executive director of the alliance. However, the association’s activities began significantly earlier than its presentation — in late summer 2023, when it was officially created. During this period, top managers of the founding companies identified priorities and began looking for a candidate for the role of head of the association. Their choice fell on Natalia Mykolska.

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is spreading in China and around the world. According to the Center for Public Health, 13 people in Ukraine have already been infected with HMPV during the epidemic season. Although it is not a new virus and its symptoms are similar to a cold, we explain how dangerous it is, the symptoms of metapneumovirus, whether it could become a new pandemic, and how to protect yourself from HMPV.

Analysts predict significant growth in altcoins in 2025, driven by market dynamics, technological progress, and increased investor interest. With Bitcoin recently crossing the $100,000 mark, the cryptocurrency market is abuzz with excitement. However, attention is gradually shifting towards altcoins, signaling the upcoming start of the season. Together with crypto exchange Bitget, we analyzed the reasons why investors will invest in alternative coins next year.

In 2024, Sigma Software lost to Genesis as the best employer. Ukrainian IT professionals believe that service companies have better working conditions, but product companies have more interesting projects. How have the leaders of the ranking of the best IT employers changed since 2017?

Finding the right person who will be useful to the team and the project is the main task of recruitment specialists, regardless of the conditions prevailing in the market. This is equally difficult to do in a scarce market and in a market where there are a lot of candidates. Among talent hunters, the idea sometimes prevails that it is easier to find specialists in the employer market, however, as most of them assure, often the variety of candidates only complicates the search and takes up precious time. dev.ua spoke with recruitment specialists from key Ukrainian IT employers and found out what they expect from the market at Softserve, GlobalLogic, Ciklum, and leading product companies.

Why is it important to talk about habit formation today? The modern world requires us to pay more and more attention to productivity, time management, and self-development. At the same time, we see more and more visual noise around us, information that seeks to capture our attention. The digital age has brought new challenges, but also provided tools that help us cope with them. James Clear, in his bestseller «Atomic Habits,» emphasizes that it is small daily habits that shape our routine. And our routine shapes our entire life.

«For me, this is a life project,» says Serhiy Tereshchuk, CTO of DVL, in an interview with dev.ua about his new position, planning the company’s further development plans. Recently established after the merger of Datagroup, Volya, and lifecell, DVL is today the largest international telecom group present in Ukraine. It faces many challenges — from ensuring uninterrupted network operation during wartime and booking specialists to developing 5G and launching new products on the market. We met with Serhiy Tereshchuk and talked not only about the above-mentioned topics, but also about the use of artificial intelligence, the situation on the telecom market with small and medium-sized providers, and ambitions in competition with other mobile operators and companies. The interview has been edited and shortened for clarity.

What will Ukrainian IT be like in the coming year? This question interests both the business community and specialists involved in the industry. Students preparing to enter the market and switchers who have decided to change their profession and are waiting for their offers are also closely following the development of the industry. dev.ua asked top managers of large IT companies about the challenges they faced during 2024 and what they expect from 2025 for the industry. The heads of EPAM Ukraine, Ciklum, Capgemini Engineering, ZONE3000, Futurra Group, Genesis, Railsware and Master of Code Global told dev.ua about the biggest challenges of 2024 and their hopes for the next year.

Що читати у 2025-му такого, щоб бути на одній хвилі із керівниками та топами IT-компаній? dev.ua попросив відомих айтівців порадити читачам книгу, яка захопила їхню увагу у 2024-му та точно буде корисною кожному. Нижче — добірка з порадами. Користуйтеся!